Congress Improves Among Hispanics; Obama, SCOTUS Hold Majority Popularity
Popularity of the U.S. Congress, while weak overall, has gained sharply among Hispanics, likely reflecting its current efforts on immigration reform, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll has found. More than half of Americans, meanwhile, favorably rate the U.S. Supreme Court and the president alike…. Read More »
EmailPoll Tracks Dramatic Rise In Support for Gay Marriage
Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on the subject across the past decade. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to… Read More »
More Americans Sympathize with Israel, Don’t Want U.S. to Lead Peace Talks
Many more Americans continue to side with Israel rather than the Palestinian Authority, but – with President Obama’s first visit there days away – most also prefer to leave peace negotiations to the two protagonists, rather than having the United States take the lead. Fifty-five… Read More »
A Decade on, Most are Critical of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq
Ten years after U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad punctuated the start of the Iraq war, nearly six in 10 Americans say the war was not worth fighting – a judgment shared by majorities steadily since initial success gave way to years of continued conflict. Nearly as… Read More »
Large Racial Gap Marks Trust on Immigration
Slightly more Americans trust Barack Obama than congressional Republicans to handle immigration, but with neither side garnering a majority and vast differences in preferences between whites and nonwhites in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Americans overall divide by 45-39 percent between Obama and the… Read More »
Drops in Approval & Trust on the Economy End Obama’s Post-Election Honeymoon
The post-election party is over for Barack Obama, with the president slipping in overall approval and relinquishing his advantage over congressional Republicans in trust to handle the economy. But it looks not so much like a gain for the GOP as a sequester-inspired pox on… Read More »
Some Gun Measures Broadly Backed But the Politics Show an Even Split
While Senate negotiators struggle for a deal on mandatory background checks at gun shows, the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds vast public support for the measure, as well as for a committee-approved step to make illegal gun sales a federal crime. A smaller majority,… Read More »
On Eve of Conclave, Record Criticism of Church For its Handling of Sexual Abuse Scandals
A record number of American Catholics disapprove of the church’s handling of its sexual abuse scandals, underscoring the challenges facing the next pope as he seeks to restore confidence and trust in the church’s leadership. More broadly, Catholics in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll… Read More »
Most Back Cuts Overall – But Not to the Military
For all the dire warnings, most Americans welcome a five percent cut in overall federal spending this year. But the defense budget is another matter. The public by nearly 2-1, 61-33 percent, supports cutting the overall budget along the lines of the sequester that took… Read More »
On the Brink of the Budget Sequester, More Damage for the GOP than Obama
Most Americans think both Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress are mishandling government spending – but, on the brink of across-the-board budget cuts, it’s the GOP that receives disproportionately more flak, including from its own partisan and ideological base. While 52 percent of adults… Read More »