Opinion Today: Topline
Selected links from the November 20, 2024, edition of Opinion Today
Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Just 29% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Matt Gaetz Andrew Romano, Yahoo News A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that only 29% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s beleaguered nominee for U.S. attorney general. The poll is not all bad news for Trump. The rest of his high-profile nominees are in better shape than Gaetz, with favorable ratings higher than their unfavorable ratings.
Americans want Trump to focus on inflation in his first 100 days, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Jason Lange, Reuters 60% of Americans say they probably won’t get an updated COVID-19 vaccine Alec Tyson and Giancarlo Pasquini, Pew Research Center
Views of DEI have become slightly more negative among U.S. workers Rachel Minkin, Pew Research Center
Few Americans regularly use social-justice terms such as antiracism and toxic masculinity Taylor Orth, YouGov 2024 Post-Election Survey: Trump Won “Swing Voters” by 8 Points Bryan Bennett, Navigator Research The Caitlin Clark Effect Propels WNBA Fandom to Record Highs Andrew Misura, Seton Hall Sports Poll How Science Lost America’s Trust and Surrendered Health Policy to Skeptics Liz Essley Whyte, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Key to Trump’s Win: Heavy Losses for Harris Across the Map Ashley Wu, Lazaro Gamio, Robert Gebeloff, Elena Shao and Michael C. Bender, New York Times
Weak turnout in key cities hurt Harris in the 'blue wall' states Stephen Pettigrew, Makenzie Kerneckel and Dylan Radley, NBC News
What the gender gap tells us about Trump's win Meredith Conroy, Tia Yang, and Katie Marriner, 538
What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024 Dhaaruni Sreenivas, Noahpinion America may have a new third party: the Democrats David Winston (Winston Group), Roll Call The ‘Democracy’ Gap Christopher Beam, The Atlantic [unlocked] The Democrats’ Big—and Failed—Bet Sam Rosenfeld (Colgate) & Daniel Schlozman (Johns Hopkins), Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Trump Tests the Constitution’s Limits William A. Galston, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] There’s something scarier than rising costs behind Trump’s victory Eduardo Porter, Washington Post [unlocked] Polling Is Not the Problem Nate Silver, New York Times [unlocked]
Ban the polls: UK election strategists slam ‘inaccurate’ voter surveys Tim Ross, Politico
There’s much more in today’s FULL edition of Opinion Today:
PLAYLIST
The New Non-Normal (with Jonathan Martin)
Hacks On Tap2024 Election Results & Analysis with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report
The Inside Elections PodcastTrump Kicks Down the Guardrails
The Ezra Klein ShowWhat led a Texas border county to break from Democrats and vote Republican
PBS NewsHour