Congress’ Job Approval Plummets During Prolonged Speaker Search
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Congress' Job Approval Plummets During Prolonged Speaker Search
2023-10-27 16:39:57
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Americans’ Approval of Congress plummeted to a six-year low this past month, as a prolonged search for a new House speaker effectively froze the chamber in its tracks, the Gallup company revealed on Friday. Gallup has been measuring... Read More

Workers With Poor ‘Well-being’ More Likely to Experience Chronic Conditions
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Workers With Poor ‘Well-being’ More Likely to Experience Chronic Conditions
2023-10-24 13:56:29
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Working adults who suffer from “poor well-being” are twice as likely as their “high well-being” counterparts to report coming down with a new chronic condition, according to a new analysis by Gallup. While the analysis itself on first... Read More

Chief Justice Roberts is America’s Top Federal Leader, According to Poll
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Chief Justice Roberts is America’s Top Federal Leader, According to Poll
2021-12-27 20:47:14
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Americans routinely tell pollsters they don’t like much of what goes on in the nation’s capital, but evidently they do like one leader a lot – Chief Justice John Roberts. According to a poll conducted by the Gallup... Read More

Americans’ Trust in Media Continues to Slide
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Americans’ Trust in Media Continues to Slide
2021-10-11 18:45:30
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON – Americans’ trust in the news media continues to plummet, dropping four percentage points from last year’s already low 36%, a new Gallup poll has found. The poll, which was released last week also found the media continues to... Read More

Americans Expect Biden to Improve Environment, Grow Budget Deficit
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Americans Expect Biden to Improve Environment, Grow Budget Deficit
2021-01-19 16:24:52
by Reece Nations

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans surveyed by Gallup predict the incoming Biden-Harris administration will make improvements to the environment and education while likely raising taxes and the national deficit.  Gallup published its findings as part of an ongoing series... Read More

New Survey Shows Low Trump Job Approval, Weak National Confidence
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New Survey Shows Low Trump Job Approval, Weak National Confidence
2020-10-22 20:40:11
by Sara Wilkerson

Gallup has released a new survey showing President Trump’s job approval rating at 43.3%, marking one of the lowest approval ratings for an incumbent during his 15th quarter in office. The Gallup poll comes ahead of the last presidential debate... Read More

‘Sobering’ Report Shows Hardening Attitudes Against Media
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'Sobering' Report Shows Hardening Attitudes Against Media

NEW YORK (AP) — The distrust many Americans feel toward the news media, caught up like much of the nation's problems in the partisan divide, only seems to be getting worse. That was the conclusion of a “sobering” study of... Read More

Polling Point of Contention: Despite Stigma, Pre-Election Polls Remain Reliable
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Polling Point of Contention: Despite Stigma, Pre-Election Polls Remain Reliable
2020-07-21 17:37:00
by Reece Nations

Since Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Electoral College defeat, public sentiment towards presidential polling numbers often centers around skepticism. Although many were blindsided by that year’s election results, exit polling data tracked closely with popular vote results. Presidential polling leading up to... Read More

Poll Finds Americans Say Health Care Costs Their Most Pressing Financial Problem
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Poll Finds Americans Say Health Care Costs Their Most Pressing Financial Problem
2019-05-31 19:25:41
by Dan McCue

Americans are more likely to name healthcare costs than any other issue when asked to say what is the most important financial problem facing their family, a recent Gallup poll found. In a survey conducted April 17-30, 17 percent of... Read More

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