Reuters/Ipsos Data: Core Political (03/28/2018)
Washington, DC - In this week’s Reuters\Ipsos Core Political release, less than one third of Americans (29%) or American registered voters (30%) believe America is headed in the right direction. Additionally, President Trump’s approval rating has remained flat for the last several weeks, hovering near 40% among all Americans. Unsurprisingly, Republicans continue to be much more likely to approve of his job performance (81%) than Democrats (11%) or Independents (33%).
On the generic congressional ballot, Democrats continue to lead among all Americans (38% to 31%) and registered voters (42% to 35%) if the November midterm election for Congress were held today. Half of registered voters (50%) approve of the job their congressperson is doing as their representative, but just 20% of registered voters approve of Congress’ performance as a whole. Republicans are much more likely to approve of both their individual representative (60%) and Congress as a whole (34%) than Democrats (45% and 12%, respectively).
Healthcare (15%) continues to top the list of most important problems facing America today. Terrorism (13%) and the economy (12%) round out the top three issues. Democrats continue to see healthcare (21%) as the biggest problem by far, with the economy and terrorism both tied for second at 12%. Republicans view terrorism (17%) as the biggest problem, while the economy (14%) and immigration (14%) are close seconds. Independents’ views are in line with most Americans with 15% viewing healthcare as the most important problem.
With significant turnover in recent weeks in the White House, Americans report that top members of the administration had nearly even odds of being fired or resigning from the White House this week. Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to narrowly lead (17%) over Chief of Staff John F. Kelly (15%), Senior Adviser Jared Kushner (15%), and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (14%) as the next executive branch staff member to be fired or resigned in the Ipsos Wh'Exit poll.
About the Study
These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters March 23 -27, 2018. For the survey, a sample of 1,670 Americans, including 583 Democrats, 559 Republicans, 174 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 2.7 percentage points for all adults, 4.6 percentage points for Democrats, 4.7 percentage points for Republicans, 8.5 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/.
For more information on this news release please contact:
Clifford Young
President, U.S.
Ipsos Public Affairs
202.420.2016
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Chris Jackson
Vice President, U.S.
Ipsos Public Affairs
202.420.2011
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