Survey Report With just a few weeks left in Barack Obamaโs presidency, Americansโ early judgments of his place in history are more positive than negative. Obama is poised to leave office on a high note: Current assessments of both the president and the first lady are among the most favorable since they arrived in the […]
Three-quarters of U.S. adults approve of the decision last year to re-establish relations with Cuba, and nearly as many favor ending the trade embargo.
Nearly a month after Donald Trumpโs election as president, the public views his transition to the White House less positively than those of past presidents-elect.
Although the movement to limit congressional terms has been largely dormant for the past two decades, 15 states do limit how many terms their own legislators can serve.
Though many Trump supporters say illegal immigration is a serious problem in the U.S. and want to build the wall, they are more divided on other questions.
Voters are far more pessimistic about progress in race relations under Donald Trump than they were after Barack Obamaโs election eight years ago, and the shift has been particularly striking among blacks.
Broad economic concerns of rural white Americans aligned with cornerstones of the Trump campaign, and the gender gap played a key role in the 2016 narrative.