Polls

NBC News -   Seven in 10 Republican primary voters prefer a candidate who comes closest to their views, while 27% prefer a candidate who has a better chance of winning the general election....

Democratic primary voters were more evenly split on the question: 56% say they prefer the candidate closest to their views, while 42% want a candidate more electable in a general election, according to the poll, which was conducted by the Democratic polling firm Hart Research Associates and the GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies.

A new Pew Research Center study found 53 percent of U.S. adults rated Americans’ morals and ethics as “bad,” making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.

NBC News -   Trump’s job approval rating is at 44% — essentially stable since the NBC News poll conducted in October, when it was 43% among registered voters — with 54% of voters disapproving of Trump’s performance as president. A majority (56%) also say Trump is either bringing the wrong kind of change or not bringing change at all, while 41% say he is bringing the right kind of change.

Across five issues tested, voters give the president their lowest marks on the economy, with 62% disapproving of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living and 36% approving....

Nearly half of voters (48%) say Trump’s policies have hurt the economy, while 35% say they have helped and 16% say they have not made much of a difference. It’s a turnaround from Trump’s first term, when more voters said his policies helped (41%) than hurt (26%).  Voters are particularly frustrated by Trump’s tariffs, with 55% saying they have hurt the economy and 33% saying they have helped.

Alternet -   Two-thirds of respondents in a 2024 LifeStance Health survey said they talk about politics or elections with their therapists. Therapists, too, are noticing an influx of clients seeking support for political stress…. In recent years, political depression has infiltrated the public discourse, the private consciousness and the therapist's office.