“Contrary to popular opinion, Americans are not all about the Benjamins. Most respondents are unable to answer the role Ben Franklin played as a founding father.”
Ipsos performs its first federal election polling project: the Labor Party remains just ahead of the Coalition in the final Fairfax Ipsos Election Poll released today.
With everyone from Mark Carney to President Obama giving warnings about the possible impact of Brexit on the economy, expectations that Remain would win were common right to the end – including among the public themselves, according to our research. But throughout the campaign the signs that Project Fear wasn’t working were there.
Is Brexit just the tip of the iceberg, a foretelling of the potential for significant social and political upheaval in the short and medium-term? Our latest Public Perspectives report examines this possibility, with recent Ipsos data showing a majority of citizens in almost all countries believing that their current government/leadership should be replaced.
Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 48% this week. This is the fourth week in a row where the President’s approval rating has (narrowly) exceeded his disapproval rating on the last Ipsos/Reuters Poll.
