The Times/Siena poll of 849 registered voters nationwide was conducted July 5-7, following the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, striking down the constitutional right to abortion that had been protected for half century. The decision sent Democrats into the streets and unleashed an outpouring of political contributions.
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Job gains continue to maintain their impressive pace, easing concerns about an economic slowdown but complicating efforts to fight inflation.
Typically, voters aligned with the party in power — Democrats now hold the House, Senate and White House — are more optimistic about the nation’s direction. But only 27 percent of Democrats saw the country on the right track. And with the fall of Roe, there was a marked gender gap among Democrats: Only 20 percent of Democratic women said the country was moving in the right direction, compared with 39 percent of Democratic men. Overall, abortion was rated as the most important issue for 5 percent of voters: 1 percent of men, 9 percent of women. Gun policies, following mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, Texas and elsewhere, and the Supreme Court’s June 23 decision to strike down a New York law that placed strict restrictions on gun ownership outside the home, ranked as the top issue by 10%. of voters — much higher than has been typical of national polls in recent years. The issue was even more important to black and Hispanic voters, ranking about the same as inflation and the cost of living, according to the survey. The coronavirus pandemic, which so radically disrupted life at the end of the Trump administration and during the first year of Mr. Biden’s presidency, has largely faded from the minds of voters, according to the survey. In an open-ended question, less than one percent of voters named the virus as the nation’s most important problem.
