Three months ago I mashed together a little data set in order to examine variance in state level public support for the ACA, and wrote about it here. This thing has magically morphed into a conference paper, so I've been kicking it around when time allows....
public opinion
NPR released a new poll this morning of LVs concerning attitudes towards the ACA and the USSC decision. Briefly, a) there's not much new here, and b) most of the.
Now that the constitutional questions regarding the ACA have been surprisingly determined, attention is shifting to the political implications that this has for November. I've built a little (emphasis on.
as Silver writes about new Gallup data. Summarized, public opinion overwhelmingly prefers a mix of tax increases and spending cuts to the Republican's zero tolerance approach to increasing revenue. The preferred mix by the public is 35% revenue, 65% spending cuts. Even the average Republican...
What is true of LGBT rights is also true of abortion; there's essentially no difference between Roman Catholics and the population as a whole, church leadership notwithstanding.
To expand on Paul's point below, there's a long-running myth that the public reception to judicial opinions is based on the quality of their reasoning. One often hears that (in.
8% of the American public believes that the late Thurgood Marshall is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (What percentage of Americans think Earl Warren was a sleazy male stripper remains unspecified.) Perhaps more importantly, fewer than 30% of the public got the question...
I'm on the road so off the grid not infrequently, but I've settled down for a couple days in time to see the new Economist / YouGov poll on attitudes.
I've been meaning to do a writeup about several recent books analyzing the Supreme Court in political context. As a prelude to my comments below, my short take on Barry.
One thing to add to the fact that foreign aid is one of the tiny number of specific areas in which cuts to government spending are actually popular is that (unless public awareness of federal spending levels has increased to implausible levels since 1995) it's...
Ed Kilgore notes a new Gallup poll making clear what was always overwhelmingly likely -- the widely-trumpeted May Gallup poll showing a significant "pro-life" majority was an outlier. When public.
From John Sides. To recapitulate, there's no reason to believe that there's been a significant change in public opinion, and legal-with-marginal-restrictions -- the Casey compromise -- continues to pretty clearly.