Polls

NY Post -  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani holds a dominant 20-point lead in the race for New York City Hall — bolstered by majority support from black, Latino and Asian voters, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Mamdani leads independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo 45%-25% among likely voters as Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa trails with 9% and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams with 8%, the Suffolk University “CityView” poll found.

But in even more bad news as his rivals cling to hopes of an upset victory, the poll shows Mamdani building support among black and Hispanic voters since his huge victory in the June Democratic Party primary over Cuomo and a slew of other candidates.

Mediaite -  The new Quinnipiac University Poll released on Tuesday found 53% of citizens believe American democracy is not working right now, compared to 41% of Americans who believe the system is going fine. Those on the left, unsurprisingly, were much more likely to say the figurative house is burning down, with 74% of polled Democrats saying “the system of democracy in the United States is not working”; only 22% of Republicans said it is not working, and 74% of GOP voters said there is no problem at all.

Indpendent, UK -   Almost 80 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is in crisis and more than half are concerned that political violence will worsen in the coming years, a new poll has found. In the wake of recent seismic events, including the assassination of MAGA commentator Charlie Kirk, a poll by Quinnipiac University showed 79 percent of voters agreed that the country was “in political crisis,” while 18 percent said it was not. Along party lines, 93 percent of Democrats agreed, as did 60 percent of Republicans.

Newsweek -  Americans are increasingly placing less importance on college, with the number viewing it as "very important" dropping to a new low, according to a new poll.

Only 35 percent rate a college education as "very important," according to the results of a survey from Gallup released earlier in September. Forty percent said they think college is "fairly important" while 24 percent said it is "not too important."

That number of Americans who view college as "very important" has dropped dramatically since 2010, when 75 percent said they thought it was. When Gallup last asked Americans to rate the importance of college in 2019, about half (53 percent) said it was very important.

The declining perception of the importance of college has been reflected in enrollment figures, with many choosing to forego higher education over concerns about tuition costs, student loan debt and what is taught at universities.

Newsweek -  While Trump’s job approval dipped to 41 percent in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, Republicans outperformed Democrats on nearly every major policy category. Asked which party had a better plan to deal with crime, 40 percent picked Republicans compared to 20 percent for Democrats. The gap was nearly as wide on immigration, where Republicans led 40 to 22 percent, even as public opinion has made a "thermostatic" turn this year under Trump, with majorities now saying immigrants benefit the U.S., according to Gallup.

Even more striking from the Reuters poll were the GOP leads on topics where Democrats have traditionally performed well. On corruption, Republicans led by six points. On gun control—long a litmus test for Democrats—Republicans are now ahead by four points.

The trend continued across national security and economic issues. Republicans held a 12-point advantage on their ability to manage foreign conflicts, and a 10-point lead on managing the U.S. economy. When it came to political extremism, voters were split almost evenly: 30 percent said Republicans had the better plan, 26 percent chose Democrats, and the rest were undecided or picked neither.