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    Trump’s Cabinet will be one of most business-heavy in U.S. history

    Assuming all of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees are confirmed, he will have one of the most heavily business-oriented Cabinets in U.S. history. Five of the 14 people Trump has nominated to be Cabinet secretaries have spent their entire careers in the business world, with no public office or senior military service on their resumes.

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    4. Views of the ACA, Medicare and the nation’s economy

    As Barack Obama prepares to leave office, the public is divided over a signature policy of his presidency: The Affordable Care Act. Currently, about as many approve of the 2010 health care law as disapprove (48% vs. 47%). The balance of opinion is somewhat more positive today than in October (when 46% approved and 51% […]

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    1. Partisans’ views of their parties, impact of Trump’s election on the GOP

    In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Republicans are feeling better about their party than they did during the campaign. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents increasingly say their party does well in representing the interests “of people like them.” Republicans’ optimism about the GOP’s future also has risen since the election. Democrats also generally continue to […]

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    Many Americans are skeptical about scientific research on climate and GM foods

    As public debates continue over a range of science-related topics, including climate change and the safety of eating genetically modified (GM) foods, Americans are largely skeptical about the degree to which scientists understand these two issues, whether there is scientific consensus on them, and the influences on scientists’ research. Recent Pew Research Center studies have […]

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    3. Views of Trump, other political figures and the parties

    After an extraordinarily negative campaign, with low personal marks for both Trump and Clinton throughout, Americans’ views of the two major candidates have improved slightly since the election. Shortly before securing the nomination, about six-in-ten Americans registered “cold” feelings toward Donald Trump on a 0-100 degree “feeling thermometer” – where 0 is the coldest, most […]

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    Views of health care law break sharply along partisan lines

    Democrats and Republicans remain extraordinarily divided in their views of the Affordable Care Act – and over what Congress should do about it – at a time when the law has become a major issue in the closing stages of the race for the White House.