
Ruth Igielnik
Staff Editor, News Surveys at The New York Times
News surveys @nytimes. Formerly @pewresearch. Mostly tweet about polls, politics and data. Married to @benbwieder.
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1 day ago |
nytimes.com | Ruth Igielnik |Christine Zhang
People like the idea of cutting government waste. But they dislike Mr. Musk, and they're down on the Department of Government Efficiency. The idea that the government is wasteful and inefficient has been a long-held view by most Americans for decades, surveys have found. And Americans mostly support the concept of the Department of Government Efficiency, commonly referred to as DOGE.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Astead Herndon |Laura Bult |Gabriel Blanco |Laura Salaberry |Caitlin O’Keefe |Christine Zhang | +1 more
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Annie Daniel |Jon Huang |Ruth Igielnik |Jasmine Lee |Alex Lemonides |Jonah Smith | +2 more
Source: Polls collected by The New York Times. Unless otherwise noted, the data sets that power this project are created by The New York Times and are available under the Presidential approval, Jan. 20, 2025, to present: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Use of these data sets is subject to the terms and conditions of this license, including but not limited to the attribution requirements.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Christine Zhang |Ruth Igielnik
Americans express very different views on tariffs depending upon how the question is asked, a challenge for pollsters trying to measure public support for a complex and poorly understood issue. Tariffs are a wonky subject, the details of which are unfamiliar to many, maybe even most, Americans.
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2 months ago |
sanjuandailystar.com | Jeremy Peters |Ruth Igielnik |Lisa Lerer
By Jeremy W. Peters, Ruth Igielnik and Lisa LererMany Americans say they do not believe the Democratic Party is focused on the economic issues that matter most to them and is instead placing too much emphasis on social issues that they consider less urgent. Asked to identify the Democratic Party’s most important priorities, Americans most often listed abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and climate change, according to a poll from The New York Times and Ipsos conducted from Jan. 2 to Jan. 10.
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Excellent poll questions to illuminate comfort with levels of deportation. Most Americans want to deport all or some immigrants in the US illegally. But that squishy 50% who say "some " -- they're mostly focused on people who have committed crimes or arrived in the last 4 years https://t.co/Jy1epcEkbu

RT @baseballot: Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for downloa…

RT @galendruke: Democrats aren't popular. What should they do about it? w/ @RuthIgielnik & @lennybronner https://t.co/oyUpDGJeX6