Opinion Today
November 1, 2024
Economy, Immigration, Abortion, Democracy Driving Voters Megan Brenan, Gallup More U.S. registered voters name the economy than any other issue as the most important factor determining which candidate they are supporting in this year’s presidential election. The 21% of voters overall naming the economy in response to the open-ended question includes 35% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents but only 7% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.
Voters have more confidence in an accurate vote count in their own state or locality than nationwide AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Registered voters have more confidence in the accuracy of electronic voting machines that provide paper receipts than paper ballots counted by hand.
AP-NORC poll finds skepticism of nationwide election tallies, especially among Republicans Christine Fernando & Linley Sanders, Associated Press The nation’s deep partisan divisions extend to trust in the vote tallies for this year’s election, as a new poll finds that Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats that ballots will be counted accurately. Voters generally show more distrust toward nationwide voting results compared to the tallies done by their own local election offices, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Donald Trump leads on immigration and inflation, Kamala Harris on abortion and health care Jamie Ballard, YouGov The most recent in a series of YouGov polls about which presidential candidate would better handle many issues finds Americans think Kamala Harris would do a far better job handling LGBTQ issues and abortion while Trump would do a much better job handling immigration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In polling conducted over the last few months, this has consistently been the case.
Women and politics: What Americans think about the 2024 election and how views have changed Taylor Orth, YouGov Americans remain divided on whether they hope to see a woman in the Oval Office within their lifetime. Beyond politics, most Americans believe in the concept of equality between men and women, even if they don’t personally identify as feminists.
