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As expected, President Trump has announced he will pull the U.S. out of the failed Iran nuclear deal, barring a renegotiation of its terms. Predictably, critics on the right and left are ripping Trump's decision. But a new IBD/TIPP Poll suggests Trump will find support for strengthening the deal from the American public.
LOS ANGELES -- May 8, 2018 -- The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, a leading national poll on consumer confidence, rose 1.9 percent in May to a reading of 53.6, marking a record run of 20 consecutive months in positive territory. The index has remained above 50 since October 2016. An index reading below 50 indicates pessimism while a reading above 50 signals optimism for the IBD/TIPP indexes.
The latest IBD/TIPP poll shows that President Trump's job approval rating hasn't changed, but the public is more upbeat about almost everything else. And most say impeachment talk is premature.
The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index rose further into moderately optimistic territory in May, gaining one point to 53.6. But the positive vibes came mostly from self-described investors. The rest of the country was slightly pessimistic, with the index registering at 49.9, just below the neutral 50 level.
RAMSEY, N.J., April 30, 2018 (Newswire.com) - Americans’ demand for new vehicles accelerated in April, largely driven by a strengthening labor market, a growing preference for SUVs and higher incomes from tax cuts. TechnoMetrica’s Auto Demand Index climbed seven points, or 7.5 percent, this month to a score of 100, yielding the second straight monthly gain in the reading. April marks the second month this year in which the Index has hit 100, an indicator of strong vehicle purchase intent among consumers. Thus, we anticipate that auto sales, after springing to life in March, will continue to blossom as the new season gets underway.
People can't agree on much in these highly charged partisan times. But one thing they do agree on in the wake of Facebook's privacy scandal: The social network is having a negative impact on society.
The vast majority of the public says something other than insufficient gun laws was the main cause of the Florida high school shooting, which claimed the lives of 17 people. But the public nevertheless wants more gun control laws, including a ban on "assault weapons."
In his State of the Union speech, President Trump said he was willing to make a deal with Democrats. He'd create a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal aliens who came to the country as children, in exchange for funding for a border wall and a shift toward a skills-based immigration policy.
Americans overwhelmingly believe the Obama administration "improperly surveilled" Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and a majority say they would like to see a special prosecutor appointed to look into possible misconduct by the FBI and Department of Justice in spying on Trump, the latest IBD/TIPP poll shows.
The more the public learns about the Republican-passed tax cuts, which took effect in January, the more they like them, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll, which also found President Trump's favorability continuing to climb, as the Democrats' chances of a wave election in November appear to diminish.
Investor’s Business Daily with a poll — and, by the way, I need to repeatedly remind you that the IBD poll remains one of the most accurate polls in recent years in predicting the outcome of various elections, including presidential. What they have determined in this latest poll is: “Public Turned Off by Media’s Relentlessly Negative Coverage of Trump — 55% of the public says they’ve grown ‘weary from the media’s persistently negative coverage of President Trump.’
After failing in its attempt to delegitimize and defeat Donald Trump through persistently negative coverage of the candidate throughout the recent campaign, the establishment news media might have been expected to acknowledge its failures and make some effort toward restoring objectivity to journalism.
If you're keeping score at home, the tally is Raghavan Mayur 2, Karl Rove zero.
A lot of people are walking into Raghavan Mayur’s office in Ramsey these days to ask how he conducts polls.
In the cornucopia of pro-Clinton polling that preceded the 2016 presidential election, two polls stood out as outliers: the USC/LA Times tracking poll and the Investor's Business Daily/TIPP tracking poll.
All night long, we heard the news networks talk about how "all" the polls and pundits were wrong. They were saying that Clinton is underperforming expectations, and voters were coming out for Trump in numbers no one had expected.
With the 2016 election nearly upon us, the political world is once again awash with presidential polls. Many of them show very different things, with some showing Hillary Clinton ahead and others Donald Trump. They can't all be right. How can you tell which polls to trust?
Long before blogger Nate Silver shot to fame for his 2012 election predictions, there was Raghavan Mayur.
The venerated Gallup Poll took a beating this year for being such an outlier in its predictions of who would win the presidency, and the New York Times's Nate Silver has now served up further evidence that the firm has lost its mojo. Silver analyzed the results obtained by about two dozen top polling firms that ran multiple surveys in the last three weeks of the campaign and then ranked the pollsters based on their accuracy: Gallup came in dead last, with an average error of 7.2 points compared to the actual results.
