Word: reagan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., from Sept. 15 through 17.* The survey also showed that the President is making progress in one of his avowed aims: to make Americans feel better about themselves and their country. There has been modest but steady improvement in the national mood during Reagan's tune in office. Slightly more than one-third of the people (36%) agree that the state of the nation is good; only 18% held that view in January. At the same time, the number of people describing the state of the nation as "not good" has declined from...
...those polled, one out of three report their impressions of the President have improved; on the other hand, the number of those who say that their impressions of Reagan have worsened rose from 15% four months...
...presidential performance rating, Reagan does very well. Seventy-seven percent say they have some or a lot of confidence in his management of the economy. Seventy percent have confidence in his handling of foreign affairs and 80% have confidence in his leadership ability...
...Reagan gets good marks as well on a series of specific issues: 61% feel that he has made a good start on providing strong moral leadership, although that figure is a drop from 66% in a Yankelovich poll taken last May. He gets a 68% approval rating on the effectiveness of his relationship with Congress and 48% feel he is off to a good start in making Americans feel good about themselves again. Asked whether Reagan is seen as a leader they can trust, 52% said yes in the most recent poll, compared to 57% last May and 48% when...
...that issue is sharply divided along partisan lines. Democrats and independents want military spending cut before social spending by 2 to 1; Republicans prefer social cuts by 43% to 26%. Fifty-three percent of those polled believe that further military cuts can be made without jeopardizing national security; here Reagan seems to be out of step with the public. (Somewhat paradoxically, the public also favors, by 45% to 34%, building the expensive and controversial MX missile system.) The preference for military cuts may be explained in part by the fact that 76% of the voters surveyed felt they would...