NBC poll on 2022 – what the public wants in candidates

Tackling inflation and high prices are among the most popular positions and qualities a 2022 candidate can have. Among the least popular: wanting Roe overturned, being endorsed by either Biden or Trump, and believing Trump won in 2020. (NBC News) Details: https://t.co/I3RnmwNHgx pic.twitter.com/Qou8qLtz81
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) May 20, 2022

Polls on the Supreme Court show lower approval

Of course, approval will be down now that we know that the three Trump nominees lied during their hearings and the Court will make the very unpopular decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

Do you approve or disapprove of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing?

Approve 38%
Disapprove 52%

(Monmouth U. Poll, 5/5-9/22)
trend: https://t.co/XdLFoiTTYW
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) May 11, 2022

Poll shows confidence in Supreme Court has collapsed since Republicans gained a 6-3 supermajority https://t.co/U2jS0yBCSC
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 10, 2022

Big change: Americans want term limits for Supreme Court justices by 66% to 21%, and favor expanding the Court by 55% to 36%. (Morning Consult poll for @politico) When I tested public appetite for Court reforms in 2007 (part of "A More Perfect Constitution") resistance was great.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) May 4, 2022

More abortion polls

Most people do not agree with the extremist Alito draft position on abortion. Republican politicians haven’t gloated about the draft because they know it’s not popular. They are trying to distract us by focusing on the leak.

NBC News: 60% of Americans say abortion should be either always legal (37%) or legal most of the time (23%) — the highest share believing it should be legal on this question, which dates back to 2003.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 16, 2022

Results from new national NBC News poll:

Abortion should be… (among adults)

Always legal: 37%
Legal most of time: 23%
Illegal, with exceptions: 32%
Illegal without any exceptions: 5%

The combined 60% answering legal is highest percentage on this question dating back to '03
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) May 15, 2022

Overturning Roe is not very popular pic.twitter.com/jizY0aRJfE
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 6, 2022

“According to the new poll, more than half of U.S. adults (54%) say they know someone who has had an abortion, while 27% say they do not, 13% say they’re not sure and 6% prefer not to say.” https://t.co/U2dQ5f1s04
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 7, 2022

CNN poll

Keep Roe 66%
Overturn Roe 33%

State abortion law should be
More permissive 58
More restrictive 42

National law legalizing abortion
Support 59
Oppose 41

Congressional ballot test
GOP 49
Dem 42https://t.co/VRXYEu74HK
— Bill Scher (@billscher) May 6, 2022

Another measure of the work ahead for Ds: in the @CNN poll 87% of the minority who want to overturn Roe say they'll vote R for Congress in November. Among the majority who don't want to overturn Roe, Ds rare winning just 62%. Can campaigns change that? #abortion. https://t.co/YNOkDHamem
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 6, 2022

New CNN Poll: Most Americans want abortion to remain legal, but the Supreme Court’s draft opinion hasn’t shaken the midterm election landscape https://t.co/KbBbOZ9QBG
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 6, 2022

Explains why @GovAbbott has been *very* quiet on the Roe news, @ReneeCrossTX told me today. A lot of independent voters he’s relied on in the past support abortion rights in some form. https://t.co/5PUCV9pkHw
— Zach Despart (@zachdespart) May 5, 2022

Chart: New survey shows deep and widening partisan split over abortion among the public. https://t.co/UDcMEJgDyB pic.twitter.com/ldiewiHoDl
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 6, 2022

The framing here. Do Americans support abortion rights? Overwhelmingly yes. Look at the damn map! pic.twitter.com/OiL2G8Us6V
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) May 4, 2022

Poll shows Republicans care less about candidates who say or do bad things

Morning Consult/Politico

If a candidate is accused of ___ is it a major problem?

Sexual misconduct:
83% of Dems say yes
77% Ind
66% Republicans

Domestic violence:
81 D
74 I
67 R

Racist remarks:
80 D
59 I
38 R

Homophobic remarks
71 D
50 I
25 R

Antisemitism
71 D
61 I
47 R
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 27, 2022

Marijuana should be legal – polls support this

Polls support it. Biden doesn’t. I disagree with him on this one. It could even help his polling numbers.

A majority of registered voters in all 50 states now favor making cannabis legal, according to state-level polling data from Civiqs.

Support ranges from a low of 52% in North Dakota to a high of 81% in Vermont and Washington.

More, via @FiveThirtyEight: https://t.co/OXYqC4py5I pic.twitter.com/UsupxKC8xH
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 22, 2022

.@JoeBiden opposes marijuana legalization and @MattGaetz supports it, so this does appear generational to an extent. Here’s a data point: every age cohort in this 2021 Pew poll favors legal weed except one: 75 and up. https://t.co/ygk7Oedsq9 pic.twitter.com/fl14IHxW54
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 18, 2022

The majority wants a mask mandate on transportation

A majority of people in the U.S. favored requiring people on planes, trains and buses to wear masks, according to a new poll that was conducted in all 50 states right before a federal judge struck down the mask mandate on planes and public transit.https://t.co/1Bb1exVIgA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 20, 2022

Oh hey, an actual poll:

"56% of Americans favor requiring people on planes, trains and public transportation to wear masks, compared with 24% opposed and 20% who say they’re neither in favor nor opposed." https://t.co/WjQueG0oxR
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) April 20, 2022

This is interesting, but in the United States the only poll that counts is a poll of Federalist Society members. https://t.co/sPqxIVQ4hJ
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 20, 2022

He’s right – the Trump cult doesn’t care about what most people think

Lots of these issue polls that purport to show continued support for various NPIs. So show me one (1) politician who has harmed his political position by lifting them. Issue polls are super unreliable, acquiescence bias all the way down. https://t.co/SuJQOLmN4e
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 20, 2022

Top issues for voters

This nugget in the @NBCNews poll jumps off the page: 62% of Americans believe they’re “falling behind” and can’t keep up with the cost of living.

Most of what goes on in DC doesn’t register with marginal or swing voters but this cuts through the noise and affects people daily. pic.twitter.com/H8ZnmVo22w
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 27, 2022

Sign of the times: New Pew Research Center poll finds coronavirus the *15th* most important issue for voters (33% call it very important), lagging well behind issues ranging from the economy, voting policies, education and crime.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 24, 2022

NEW Top voting issues for Republicans:
Economy
Immigration
Violent crime
Foreign policy

Democrats:
Health care
Economy
Voting policies
Education pic.twitter.com/q1ODJtYfnQ
— Carroll Doherty (@CarrollDoherty) March 25, 2022

The latest release from our new NBC News poll…

We tested 15 different candidate issues/qualities for the 2022 midterms.

Here are the most popular issue/qualities and the least popular ones: pic.twitter.com/oBbKsCdz4z
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) March 30, 2022

The connection between unvaccinated people and Russia invasion supporters

Startling data:

26 percent of unvaccinated people in Canada believe Russia invading Ukraine is justified.

2 percent of vaccinated people in Canada believe the same.

More evidence antivaxx communities are evolving into general pro-authoritarian spaces.https://t.co/p3QxkiLjPS pic.twitter.com/83tkkaWWYc
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 20, 2022

58% support confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court justice

Republican senators won’t care. They’re more interested in appealing to their white nationalist base.

From Gallup: 58% of Americans think Ketanji Brown Jackson should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Americans know she's what our highest court needs. #ConfirmJackson pic.twitter.com/CH38h8rt6O
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) March 23, 2022

GALLUP: 58% of Americans say confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

30% say reject her

12% have no opinionhttps://t.co/VBz328krb8
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 23, 2022

A majority of Americans support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed to the Supreme Court, with 58% saying the Senate should vote in favor of her historical nomination to the nation's highest court, according to a poll newly released by Gallup https://t.co/WDuvLgokYg
— CNN (@CNN) March 23, 2022

The 56% support for Judge Jackson's confirmation is the highest level of support for any SCOTUS nominee measured by the Fox News Poll since 2005. pic.twitter.com/WtCjd9Nt8T
— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin) March 28, 2022

Senate Republicans’ ranting, raving, and disrespectful behavior won’t change the facts: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified to serve on the Supreme Court, and the American people overwhelmingly support her nomination. https://t.co/wS6dhazn5O
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) March 28, 2022

The public doesn’t support terrible Republican book banning/teaching policies

Striking new poll numbers:

* 76% support teaching history that causes discomfort

* 66% say schools teach the right amount or too little about Black history

* 58% say racism is still a serious problem

Don't run from these arguments, Democrats. Win them:https://t.co/3GWK06hKmF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 23, 2022

Three numbers from this poll:

87% of US adults say books should never be banned from schools for containing discussions of race

68% say teaching the history of race makes students understand what others went through

35% say they've heard a lot about critical race theory https://t.co/gdQOKlP3y8
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) February 23, 2022

In Dallas News/UT-Tyler poll, 65% in TX (!) say they have little/no confidence in elected officials to decide which books should be allowed in school libraries. Similar to VA/TX/ntl polls showing most oppose state limits on teaching race in classroom https://t.co/cOC4RpcHwy
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 23, 2022

NEW POLL: 71% of likely voters – including 66% of Independents and 64% of Republicans – believe that local school boards should not have the authority to ban books from school curriculums.

Read the analysis from @LeahGreenb of @IndivisibleTeam.https://t.co/1VlNlpv69T
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) February 18, 2022

New @CBSNews poll finds GOP efforts to ban books are toxic.

"Large majorities — more than eight in 10 — don't think books should be banned from schools for discussing race and criticizing U.S. history."https://t.co/Fb3FkV7zFQ pic.twitter.com/THhpCZdBKu
— James Singer (@Jemsinger) February 23, 2022

As you may know, efforts to ban certain books in schools and libraries are spreading in the United States. Do you think these efforts are more about the content of the books or more about politics?

Content of books 15%
Politics 79%

(Quinnipiac U. Poll, 2/10-14/22)
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) February 17, 2022