Fifty-seven percent of Americans in our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll say the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court should be left to the winner of the presidential election and a Senate vote next year, with coverage (beyond ABC and the Post) by NBC News (here and here), MSNBC, PBS News Hour and Capital Public Radio News. The poll also covered the state of the 2020 presidential race, with additional reporting by Bloomberg, Forbes, USA Today, and the Houston Chronicle, among others.

We’ve also produced polls in five battleground states this month. Our Pennsylvania poll has been picked up by Politico, Axios, Vice News, and The Hill; Arizona and Florida polls by Fox News, The Hill, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and the SunSentinel; and Wisconsin and Minnesota polls by The New York Times, MinnPost, and the Green Bay Press Gazette, among others. 

More Americans approve than disapprove of Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with rising enthusiasm among Biden supporters in the run up to the Democratic National Convention. It’s been picked up by The New York Times, CNN, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The Week, the Baltimore Sun, The Wichita Eagle, and the Missoula Current.

Among other activities, check out Gary Langer’s advice on how to better understand political polls on the WGBH Forum Network here. He’s joined by guest speakers Wilnelia Rivera, president at Rivera Consulting, Inc.; and James Pindell, political reporter at The Boston Globe.

Six in 10 Americans disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the coronavirus outbreak in our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with coverage, beyond ABC and the Post, by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, The Guardian, and The Week. The poll also found majority support for the Black Lives Matter movement and advantages for Joe Biden over Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic and in vote preference overall, with additional reporting by The New York Times, CNN, Politico, Bloomberg, Axios, Forbes, The Hill (here and here), and USA Today.

See also our recent evaluation of long-term trends in the rising association of ideology and political partisanship.

College students’ satisfaction with their courses fell sharply after the sudden shift to online learning in the coronavirus pandemic, with courses often lacking recommended elements of online instruction and students struggling to stay motivated, many challenged by uneven access to internet connectivity. 

Still, a new national survey finds courses that included more engaging elements of online instruction saw substantially higher levels of student satisfaction, offering a constructive path forward in the fall semester ahead.

The results and others come from a newly released, random-sample national survey of 1,008 college students, produced by Langer Research Associates for the education technology nonprofit Digital Promise, with data collection via the Ipsos KnowledgePanel®. See the news release from Digital Promise and its research partner Tyton Partners here and the full report here, as well as additional coverage by the online publication Inside Higher Ed. 

We’ve had a busy presentation schedule recently. Among our outreach activities:
 
Gary Langer joined Courtney Kennedy of Pew Research Center and Trent Buskirk of Bowling Green State University in a June 17 webinar for journalists covering public opinion surveys, co-sponsored by SciLine, a project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Statistical Association.
 
Gary’s also given two similar presentations on the SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive, one in a June 4 webinar convened by the World Association for Public Opinion Research and another at the June 11 virtual annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
 
Also at the AAPOR conference, Gary presented on “The Pandemic Election” and on management of probability-based online surveys from a practitioner’s perspective; Christine Filer presented on a study we produced for ESPN on the roots of sports superstardom; and Yulia Baskakova presented on a study we produced on public views of implicit bias, included as a chapter in the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll covered the 2020 presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic and intention to get a coronavirus vaccination when available. Beyond ABC and the Post, we’ve seen coverage of our election analysis by CNN, Politico, TIME, USA Today, The Hill, Fox News, China Daily, The Atlantic, Newsday, International Business Times and The Guardian; pickup of our report on public attitudes and experiences relating to the coronavirus by Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report; and reports on our vaccination results by The Hill, The Washington Times and New York Daily News, among others.

A new piece in the journal Survey Practice gives the back story on our SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive, an open-access, searchable archive of hundreds of probability-based surveys on the pandemic that we’ve produced and maintain in support of the Societal Experts Action Network. Sign up at the archive for our weekly summaries of the latest COVID-19 surveys.

The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) is a group dedicated to supporting critical social, behavioral and economic inquiry relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week we launched two new resources to support its work: An open-access archive of public opinion surveys on COVID-19 and a weekly summary of key results.

The archive, at COVID-19.parc.us.com, houses probability-based survey data and reports measuring public attitudes, behavior and experiences related to the pandemic. Users can search and retrieve individual questions and all related materials, including questionnaires, datasets and reports, as available.

The latest weekly summary of survey results ending April 10th is available here. These summaries also are archived on the SEAN COVID-19 Survey Archive.

The archive currently contains U.S. surveys. Most have been donated by their producers, many of whom are providing additional materials, including datasets and scripted questionnaires, for which we are grateful. We’ll be expanding the collection and aim to include international studies as well. 

If you have produced a survey that you would like to be considered for inclusion, see our Contributors’ Guide. Write us to request administrative rights to upload materials directly or with comments or suggestions.

Tracking the vast impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on the American public, our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that 77 percent of Americans report disruption in their lives because of the crisis and a third say they or an immediate family member have been laid off or lost a job. It’s been picked up by CNN Politics, Politico, The Hill, Townhall, The Washington Times, Newsweek and the Daily Mail, among others. The poll also looked forward to November 2020, with election coverage by Bloomberg, Politico, USA Today and The Guardian.

Our Bloomberg® Consumer Comfort Index™ measures the impact of the crisis on the public’s economic attitudes; see these reports at Bloomberg News and Business Insider.

Our ABC News/Washington Post poll leading up to the Iowa caucuses covered the state of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination as well as public attitudes toward impeachment, the 2020 presidential election and Donald Trump’s handling of the situation with Iran. It’s been picked up by The New York Times (here and here), MSNBC, Vox, Newsmax, Politico (here and here), The Guardian, The Hill, Townhall, Military Times and local media including Dayton Daily News and KGAN TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – among others.