Survey Says is a weekly column rounding up three of an important polling traits or knowledge factors it is advisable to find out about. You’ll additionally discover data-based updates on previous Every day Kos reporting, plus a vibe examine on a development that’s driving politics.
Donald Trump: Grasp of stonks
President Donald Trump is giving it his all—if by “it” we imply “wrecking the stock market and/or economy.” Regardless of a rally on Friday, the S&P 500 has tumbled 410 factors and the Dow Jones Industrial Common has plummeted 2,537 factors since Trump took workplace. And that ache springs from his nonsensical, reactionary tariff coverage, which he’s each backing off of and doubling down on at random.
And People should not glad.
A brand new ballot from SSRS performed for CNN finds Trump together with his lowest web approval ranking on the economic system ever. Simply 44% of People approve of how he’s dealing with the economic system, whereas 56% disapprove. That places him 12 share factors underwater.
His worst consequence earlier than this within the ballot? 5 factors underwater, in December 2017.
Worse for Trump, this survey was completed fielding final Sunday, that means it was performed earlier than this previous week’s inventory sell-off. And People are largely conscious of that market chaos: 41% accurately say inventory costs have typically fallen since Trump took workplace, in accordance with a YouGov ballot fielded on Tuesday, amid the sell-off. One other 22% say it’s about the identical (unsuitable), whereas 15% say it’s increased (wrong-er). However lots of these people would possibly’ve had their minds modified since Tuesday.
Naturally, Trump and his lackeys are blaming former President Joe Biden for the mess they created. And it’s true that solely 44% of People assume Trump is extra accountable than Biden for the state of the economic system, whereas 34% blame Biden, in accordance with a recent YouGov ballot for The Economist. Nonetheless, that quantity will worsen for Trump the longer he’s in workplace and pursuing this harmful commerce battle.
Merchants work on the ground of the New York Inventory Alternate on March 11, 2025.
In spite of everything, almost one-half of registered voters (46%) assume Trump’s financial insurance policies are hurting the economic system, in accordance with a brand new Emerson School ballot largely fielded earlier than the inventory sell-off. That features 81% of Democrats, 44% of independents, and 15% of Republicans. A mere 28% of voters assume his insurance policies are making the economic system higher, together with simply 55% of Republicans.
One other dangerous quantity for Trump? About 1 in 4 Republicans in Emerson’s ballot assume his tariff insurance policies will damage the U.S. economic system, a view additionally held by 4 in 5 Democrats and greater than 1 in 2 independents.
Provided that Democrats’ and Republicans’ emotions concerning the economic system are inclined to swing abruptly relying on who’s within the White Home, these are fairly weak showings for Trump.
That stated, whereas the Dow could also be down 2,537 factors, you’ll be able to’t blame Trump. He’s been {golfing} rather a lot recently. He should assume a damaging quantity is an effective one.
Don’t rain on colleges. Make it rain.
The Republican Social gathering’s strategy on public schooling goes like this: Drain cash from colleges, then declare they don’t work properly, then use that to justify draining extra money from them. Actually, that’s the GOP’s entire governing philosophy, however public schooling appears to catch it particularly exhausting.
Nonetheless, the general public needs the federal government to dump funding into schooling, not intestine it.
A brand new YouGov ballot for The Economist finds {that a} majority of People need the federal authorities to spend extra on low-income colleges (57%), particular schooling (52%), vocational and profession coaching (57%), faculty security (60%), instructor coaching (56%), and early childhood schooling (52%). Moreover, a minuscule share—we’re speaking nearly at all times single digits—needs to lower or completely remove funding to every of these.
The least widespread funding space is school monetary assist, although a plurality of People (38%) nonetheless needs to see its funding elevated and one other 27% need it to remain the identical.
The overwhelming majority of Republicans don’t wish to see most schooling funding lower, both. Excluding school monetary assist, the areas they most wish to see the federal government in the reduction of on are instructor coaching and early childhood schooling. Nonetheless, solely 8% of Republicans wish to see funding to these decreased, whereas one other 8% need the federal government to finish all funding for early childhood schooling and 9% wish to finish all federal funding for instructor coaching.
A instructor provides lesson to college students at Parrish Faculty in Carbondale, Illinois.
The identical ballot finds little assist for arguably Trump’s largest schooling plan: killing the Division of Training. If carried out, that transfer may imperil federal funding for public Okay-12 colleges, particularly funding for poor and disabled college students. It might additionally result in chaos in federal scholar loans, Pell Grants, and school accreditation, amongst many different areas.
That could possibly be why solely 29% within the ballot assist eliminating the DOE—a determine that will get slashed almost in half (17%) once you have a look at those that “strongly” assist doing so.
Even Republicans appear to know you don’t get a greater public schooling system by spending much less cash.
Why you gotta be so impolite?
You see it daily now, on-line or in actual life: individuals screaming at strangers in Goal or throwing drinks at drive-through employees or simply watching their illuminated cellphone screens in darkish film theaters—behaviors that was once gauche, to say the least. If it feels to you want society is extra crass nowadays, you are removed from alone.
Virtually half of People (47%) assume individuals are ruder in public than they had been earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with Pew Analysis Heart. That’s increased than the share who thinks the extent of public rudeness is about the identical (44%).
A 3rd of People see individuals appearing rudely in public typically (25%) or nearly at all times (9%), whereas 46% say it occurs solely generally.
What constitutes rudeness? Properly, Pew finds that roughly 3 in 4 People assume it’s not often or by no means acceptable to smoke close to different individuals or take a photograph or video of somebody with out asking their permission. Different forms of vastly unacceptable habits embrace bringing a child to a bar or one other place sometimes meant for adults (69%), displaying cuss phrases on an indication or article of clothes (66%), and cussing out loud (65%).
That stated, People are fairly break up on whether or not it’s okay to deliver a pet right into a grocery retailer or store, with 45% discovering it by no means or not often acceptable and 40% saying it’s generally acceptable.
The oddest discovering within the knowledge, although, is that roughly 1 in 10 People assume individuals have gotten extra well mannered for the reason that pandemic. And actually, given the hellscape we stay in, it’s fairly impolite of them to say that.
Any updates?
Trump and Vice President JD Vance ambushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in late February, mocking a person whose nation is underneath invasion. However People largely aren’t shopping for the GOP’s spin on the encounter: Solely 32% say Zelenskyy disrespected Trump, whereas 51% say Trump disrespected Zelenskyy, in accordance with a ballot from YouGov for The Economist.
As this column lined two weeks in the past, whereas voters could largely assist the concept of “mass deportations,” they’re far much less more likely to assist deporting individuals after studying something about their lives. And a brand new ballot from Knowledge for Progress backs that up additional, discovering that solely about 1 in 4 probably voters would deport undocumented migrants who’re in numerous high-paying jobs or who’re in lower-wage jobs however have been within the nation for a very long time.
Vibe examine
Earlier than final yr’s election, Republicans voters’ outlook on the economic system was extraordinarily damaging, with 83% saying it was getting worse, 11% saying it was about the identical, and simply 5% saying it was getting higher, in accordance with Civiqs. Then the election occurred, and by early February, these numbers had largely flipped—57% stated it was getting higher, whereas 25% stated it was staying the identical and 12% stated it was getting worse.
In a troubling signal for Trump, although, that “getting better” quantity appears to have plateaued since early February. Provided that the information doesn’t incorporate a lot of the chaos of the previous week, this can be a quantity to keep watch over.
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