More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think
More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think.
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More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think.
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
For the most part, Americans don’t think a woman president would do better or worse than a man when it comes to key leadership traits or the handling of various policy areas. At the same time, the public sees differences in the way men and women running for higher office are treated by the media.
Most registered voters who are White Christians would vote for Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Joe Biden if the 2024 presidential election were held today.
A 24-country survey finds a median of 59% are dissatisfied with how their democracy is functioning, and 74% think elected officials don’t care what people like them think.
Donald Trump’s likely clinching of the GOP nomination came 244 days before Election Day, a day short of John McCain in 2008.
79% of Americans favor maximum age limits for elected officials in Washington, D.C. And 74% support such limits for Supreme Court justices.
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
A new analysis shows that relatively few people who voted in the 2018 midterms were persuaded to vote for a different party four years later.
72% of U.S. adults say that there should be limits on the amount of money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns.
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