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Immigration shot to the top of Gallup's February polling on what Americans say are the country's most vexing problems, finishing at 28%, an 8-percentage-point uptick in a single month.�
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by Kerry Eleveld
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 12:00 PM PST
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Check out Gallup polling of Job Approval, heading into autumn in the year before election, for Obama, and for Biden. It shows Biden’s job approval at 42%. At this time in 2011, Obama’s job approval stood at 41%. And 15 months later, Obama gets declared...
by joan reports
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 04:53 AM PDT
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More than two years of highly unpopular decisions and months of exposés detailing scandals and alleged corruption has eroded the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval to its lowest level ever in the ...
by Joan McCarter
42 comments
on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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I have always enjoyed Meteor Blades’ post about July 4, which highlights Frederick Douglass' iconic speech , “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” delivered in Rochester, New York, in 1852. ...
by Ian Reifowitz
69 comments
on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 06:59 AM PDT
with 111 Recommends
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The U.S. Supreme Court notched yet another all-time low in its approval rating, this time in a Quinnipiac University poll. The survey found that a 54% majority of Americans disapprove of the way the Supreme Court is handling its job, while just 35%...
by Kerry Eleveld
75 comments
on Thu Dec 15, 2022 at 09:49 AM PST
with 178 Recommends
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Given recent analysis and speculation that if Roe falls, Obergefell v. Hodges may follow, it’s especially interesting to check in and see where the general public sits in terms of same-sex marriage. Given that it’s been the law of the land, one might...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Jun 01, 2022 at 09:55 AM PDT
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According to Gallup, President Biden's approval rating is the second lowest among presidents since the 1950s. thehill.com/… 41% approve and 56% disapprove. I don't expect republican and conservative adults to approve of the job performance of a...
by Dem
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on Sat Apr 23, 2022 at 09:59 AM PDT
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Oh, no, not another “Democrats are doomed” post! We are all sick of seeing predictions of disaster looming this fall for Team Blue. I don’t believe in scaring people into getting involved, or always pretending we’re 10 points down, but when data points...
by Ian Reifowitz
102 comments
on Fri May 20, 2022 at 06:29 AM PDT
with 70 Recommends
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As much as conservatives would love to see LGBTQ+ people quietly dissolve into dust, we’re only getting more and more open about our identities. According to recent findings from a Gallup study, the percentage of adults in the United States who...
by Marissa Higgins
71 comments
on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 10:44 AM PST
with 161 Recommends
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Unfortunately, here in the United States, we tend to be inundated with wellness advice that basically sums up to: Do more, try harder, and be better. There’s much to be said about how capitalism ...
by Marissa Higgins
281 comments
on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 06:00 PM PST
with 106 Recommends
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If you listen to the media, you would think America was as religious as ever. However, evangelical Christians are an egregious example of how a noisy minority can appear to be a more significant number of people than they actually are. And they have...
by TheCriticalMind
568 comments
on Fri Dec 31, 2021 at 08:36 AM PST
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Warning signs flashed red on Wednesday during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court over a Mississippi abortion ban. Based on the tenor of the justices' questioning, the consideration at hand quickly evolved from whether the high court's extreme...
by Kerry Eleveld
113 comments
on Thu Dec 02, 2021 at 11:01 AM PST
with 94 Recommends
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While roughly two-thirds of GOP voters still think Donald Trump is god's gift to the planet, the rest of the world has other ideas. In fact, Gallup found that global approval ratings of U.S. leadership slipped to record lows under Trump, hitting just...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Oct 19, 2021 at 10:07 AM PDT
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There has never been a declared atheist as President, although some of the early ones were close to it. �Jefferson was a deist and both Adams’s were conspicuously non-religious. Abraham Lincoln ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Fri Aug 27, 2021 at 03:13 PM PDT
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There are some moments in global history that are remembered, whether they are world wars, scientific discoveries, the moon landing, or the collapse of the Berlin wall. If you were alive during these events, you will never forget them. When vaccines...
by Christopher Reeves
167 comments
on Wed Aug 25, 2021 at 09:04 AM PDT
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The country is changing. Culture and demographics are engaging in a 1-2 gut punch to the conservative movement and its Republican Party. And as those changes sweep the nation, Republicans remain ...
by kos
310 comments
on Fri Aug 13, 2021 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Let’s face it. According to the polls, Democrats have generally outnumbered Republicans by a good four to five percent in recent years. But, because of gerrymandering and the fact that we tend to congregate in blue states and cities, our voting power...
by CTReformedRep
132 comments
on Thu Apr 08, 2021 at 04:35 AM PDT
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As Republican Party affiliation slips to its lowest level in nearly a decade, Americans who count themselves as Democrats is spiking, according to a Gallup tracking poll of this year's first quarter. Gallup found 49% of people identified as either...
by Kerry Eleveld
111 comments
on Wed Apr 07, 2021 at 09:02 AM PDT
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There are many breathless stories in the main-stream media about the failure of the Republican party because of voters changing their registration after the January 6 insurrection. The folks leaving ...
by somatichypermutation
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on Tue Feb 23, 2021 at 03:33 AM PST
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Americans' support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup's polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation's two parties are adequately representing the...
by Kerry Eleveld
205 comments
on Mon Feb 15, 2021 at 11:15 AM PST
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