Reuters/Ipsos Data: Core Political (05/03/2017)
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Washington, DC — As the Republicans present a new version of the Affordable Health Care Act, concern over healthcare continues to climb, now at 16%. Focus has shifted away from terrorism with concern dropping by 4 percentage points to 11%. Attention remains steady on the economy, where 13% of Americans believe it’s the most important problem facing the US today. When exploring partisan beliefs, Democrats cite healthcare as their top concern (20%), whereas Republicans are most concerned about terrorism and the economy (both 15%). Republicans are also more likely to cite immigration (12%) as a top concern than either Democrats (3%) or Independents (7%).
Now over 100 days into his term, President Trump’s approval rating has increased slightly to 44% among Americans. While this is up from last week’s 41% approval, most Americans still say they disapprove of the job he is doing as president (51%). Consistently some of Trump’s job approval attributes have remained high, with his handling of the economy and jobs and his dealing with ISIS/ISIL both at 53%. However, the president continues to get lower approval marks for his handling of the environment (38% approve) and ‘the way he treats people like me’ (40%). Notably, President Trump’s approval rating on healthcare remains low (43%), despite his administration’s continued focus on it. Similarly, his approval on taxation is low (46%), a bad sign as Republicans prepare to present tax policy reform.
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These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters April 28 - May 2, 2017 For the survey, a sample of 2, 214 Americans, including 926 Democrats, 782 Republicans, 311 Independents ages 18+ were interviewed online. The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points for all adults, 3.7 percentage points for Democrats, 4.0 percentage points for Republicans, 6.3 percentage points for Independents. For more information about credibility intervals, please see the appendix.
The data were weighted to the U.S. current population data by gender, age, education, and ethnicity. Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online polls. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error and measurement error. Figures marked by an asterisk (*) indicate a percentage value of greater than zero but less than one half of one per cent. Where figures do not sum to 100, this is due to the effects of rounding. To see more information on this and other Reuters/Ipsos polls, please visit http://polling.reuters.com/.
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