A Drop in Opposition to Obamacare Helps Stabilize a Struggling Presidency
Public opposition to the new health care law has eased in the past month, enough to help level off Barack Obama’s falling popularity – but not to turn it around. Fifty-five percent of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll disapprove of the president’s… Read More »
EmailPope Francis, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Is Vastly Popular Among Catholics
On the day he was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll marks Pope Francis’ almost unanimous popularity among American Catholics – as well as the continued recovery in their views of the church itself since the worst of its… Read More »
Many View NSA Intrusions as Unjustified But More See Damage from Snowden Leaks
Public belief that the National Security Agency unnecessarily intrudes on privacy rights has grown, but so has the sense that Edward Snowden damaged U.S. security by disclosing the spy agency’s activities – with the latter a more powerful factor in views on charging him with… Read More »
Fifty Years Later, Many Still See Broader JFK Plot, Cover-up
Fifty years later, majorities of Americans still believe that John F. Kennedy’s assassination was part of a broader plot and that a government cover-up tried to keep the public from learning the truth. But both suspicions have subsided from their peaks. Sixty-two percent in the… Read More »
Most Support a Deal with Iran; Few Are Confident It’ll Work
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support an agreement to ease economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program. But many fewer – barely more than a third – are confident that such a deal would prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Sixty-four… Read More »
Most Favor Independent Prosecutors in Military Sexual Assault Cases
Six in 10 Americans support letting independent prosecutors decide whether to place charges in sexual assault cases in the U.S. military, removing such decisions from the traditional chain of command. With a vote on the issue pending in the Senate, 59 percent in a new… Read More »
Botched ACA Rollout Hammers Obama; Job Disapproval Reaches a Career High
Barack Obama has been hammered by the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, with disapproval of his job performance reaching a career high, opposition to the new healthcare law up sharply and evidence of potential fallout in the midterm elections a year off. The… Read More »
Exit Poll Results Tell a Tale of Two Republicans
Last updated at 10:55 pm. Broad personal and professional appeal lifted Chris Christie to easy re-election in New Jersey, yet without the clear home state endorsement for the presidency he might have wanted. His fellow Republican, Ken Cuccinelli, lost a far closer contest in Virginia,… Read More »
Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics
An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect of more of the bitter political battles that played out in Washington this month. A new… Read More »
Congress Dives, Anti-Incumbency Soars in Deep Post-Shutdown Criticism
Approval of Congress is at a new low in 40 years of polling, Americans’ approval of their own representative in Washington is underwater for the first time and a record number of registered voters are inclined to look for someone new in 2014 – all… Read More »