Most people who contract the Zika virus from a mosquito bite just need to rest and they are healed in 5 to 7 days but there have been a large number of cases in South America where pregnant women who are infected suffer a miscarriage or their babies are born with neurodevelopmental disorders. Barack Obama […]
In an article for today’s Times (£) I note the persistence of some of the disadvantages that African Americans face: “The unemployment rate for black Americans has been twice as high as the white rate for five decades. Over that same period the income gap between blacks and whites hasn’t narrowed and the wealth gap […]
Establishment Republicans had hoped that Mr Trump had a ceiling of about 35% in the Republican nomination race but in Tuesday’s Nevada caucus he won 46% of the vote. Unless Nevada is somehow very unusual, Mr Trump’s ceiling may be a rising one! After earlier victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina the prospect of the controversial billionaire winning […]
Last night in Nevada, record numbers of residents turned out in order to “caucus” for their preferred candidate, with over 73,000 voters showing up at the polls to choose the Republican nominee. Four years ago, the last time a caucus was held, only 32,000 showed up, and four years prior, 44,000. Clearly the excitement was […]
With the departure of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush from the Republican race, three candidates are vying for the nomination. Who will come out on top? Supporters of Senator Marco Rubio should not conclude that Senator Ted Cruz is stumbling because of accusations of dirty tricks and the firing of his communications director. Cruz is […]
Which sources of news would you choose if you could only have three? If I had to pick from the list I prepared for YouGov’s First Verdict panel I would have chosen a national newspaper, Twitter and a search engine. In two of those choices I’m in touch with US citizens but it seems that my enthusiasm […]
Much more quickly than many people expected, while the votes of the people of South Carolina were still being counted, Jeb Bush suspended his once much-anticipated campaign for the presidency. We asked the YouGov First Verdict panel why Governor Bush’s campaign had failed to take off in Iowa, New Hampshire and in Saturday’s first primary in the […]
Barack Obama has been embroiled in two rows in the last 48 hours. One concerned his announcement that he would be visiting Cuba as part of his forthcoming trip to Latin America. He’ll be the first sitting US President to visit the country for eighty years and Senators Cruz and Rubio have been quick to condemn […]
“Which of the following factors do you believe is most important to maintaining American strength in the world?” That was the question we put to YouGov’s First Verdict a few days ago and we gave respondents the option of choosing the three factors that they thought were most important. The top three choices were economic power with […]
During the New Hampshire debate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took what at the time seemed like a fatal punch at Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Several times, Christie fired at Rubio, claiming the young Hispanic Senator was robotic, delivering the same canned answer no matter the question. After Rubio finished fifth in the New Hampshire […]
Yesterday’s not-so-subtle threat from Donald Trump that he might stand as a third party candidate – because the Republican National Committee had allegedly stuffed Saturday night’s CBS debate audience with anti-Trump establishment-types (who jeered his Michael Moore-ish attacks on George W Bush) – provoked us to ask YouGov’s First Verdict panel how they would vote if there was […]
Yesterday we published the first set of results from our Presidents Day poll. We found that Ronald Reagan was the YouGov First Verdict panel’s favourite of the last ten presidents. We also found that Democratic presidents won more votes – overall – than Republican presidents. You can read the full results here. We also asked […]
For Presidents Day we asked the YouGov First Verdict panel to say which of the last ten US presidents was the greatest. Ronald Reagan was a clear winner with 40% voting for him. His victory might partly reflect the likelihood that Republican-minded panellists all lined up behind him. Other Republican presidents in the list scored […]
Both President Obama and, this last weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry have gone public with their view that they would prefer the people of the United Kingdom to vote to remain within the European Union in the referendum expected in June. Mr Kerry said that the US had a “profound interest” in a “strong UK […]
A clear majority of Americans support the right of President Obama to nominate a successor to Antonin Scalia – the conservative judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986 and died yesterday, aged 79. 57% agree that Mr Obama, as the sitting president until next January, should appoint a successor, […]
In his weekly letter to CapX subscribers, issued yesterday, Iain Martin has already previewed the YouGov First Verdict panel’s answers to a question we asked about Wall Street. Iain noted how the “findings demonstrate how deep the distrust of Clinton’s friends on Wall Street runs.” He continued: “Two thirds of Americans polled think that Wall […]
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