Disapproval of President Trump is at a new high in our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with the public showing broad support for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and half supporting initiating impeachment proceedings against the president. The poll has received wide coverage beyond ABC and the Post, including by CNN, CBS News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Politico, Newsweek (here and here), USA Today, The Hill, Fortune, Business Insider, Vice News, Salon, the Independent, New York Daily News, The Washington Times, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.

We recently polled on reactions to Donald Trump’s statements on U.S. intelligence findings related to Russian election interference, following a widely-discussed press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Our survey got wide pickup from a variety of news outlets, including The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Weekly Standard, the Daily Mail, Roll Call, the East Bay Times and The Record, among others.

Among our recently released work:

• An early release from the 2018 Phi Delta Kappa poll on school security covering parents’ concerns and preferences when it comes to keeping their children safe at school. There’s consensus on some measures – like stationing armed police in the schools, providing mental health screenings and using metal detectors – but significantly less support for arming teachers and staff. That said, if a rigorous training program were implemented, putting guns in the hands of teachers gains in popularity. Full results of the poll – which covers K-12 issues ranging from inequity of opportunity to college affordability – will be released in September.
• A survey on Americans’ attitudes toward global warming and related topics, with researchers from Stanford’s Political Psychology Research Group and Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research institution working to improve environmental decision-making. Awareness of the issue is up, and support for action – including making the cuts called for in the Paris agreement rejected by Donald Trump – is broad. But the public has significant concerns about whether government action can reduce global warming and questions the urgency of the problem.
• Our paper on using MRP to predict the 2016 election has been officially published online by Public Opinion Quarterly for print release in the next issue. Our models, developed over the course of the campaign, successfully predicted the outcome in nearly all states using cumulative data from our ABC News/Washington Post polls.

It’s been a busy spring for Langer Research Associates. Among other projects, we’re managing U.S. and Canada surveys for the latest round of the Pew Global Attitudes Project; launched a survey on education technology for Digital Promise, the ed tech nonprofit created by an act of Congress; designed and fielded the 50^th annual PDK Poll on public attitudes toward public education; and carried out ongoing research on sleep health for the National Sleep Foundation, among other research projects.

We presented two papers at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Denver in May. Research Analyst Christine Filer presented on measuring work-related sexual harassment, and Research Analyst Sofi Sinozich gave a paper on the 49^th annual PDK poll.

Gary Langer has a chapter on probability vs. non-probability methods in the newly published Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research, and our paper on using MRP in state-level election forecasting, by Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Gary and Sofi, will appear in a forthcoming edition of Public Opinion Quarterly. These follow pieces based on our work in the past year published in Sleep Health and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Our April ABC News/Washington Post poll covered topics ranging from Robert Mueller’s investigation to North Korean denuclearization, with pickup from outlets such as CNN (here and here), The Hill, Politico, Vox, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, Slate, Mic and the Washington Examiner, among others.

Following the tragedy in Parkland, Fla., our most recent ABC/Washington Post poll found that most Americans think neither Donald Trump nor Congress is doing enough to prevent mass shootings. This and other results from our newest poll were picked up by CNN, CBS News, Politico, The Hill, Slate, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Salon, Newsmax, the Los Angeles Times, and The Mercury News, among others.

Our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll revealed Americans’ opinions of Donald Trump’s first year in office on topics ranging from the economy to his mental stability. It was picked up by Politico, the Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, Global News, Newsweek, Newsmax, The Weekly Standard, The Boston Globe, Salon and Bustle, with a mention on the late-night show Conan.

Additionally, the national survey gauged views of the anticipated government shutdown (Vox, Huffington Post, New York Daily News), the 2018 Congressional elections (TIME, The Hill, The Denver Post, Newsmax), Trump’s presidential nuclear authority (Vox, Newsweek, The Hill, Salon) and sexual harassment (The Hill, The Daily Dot, The Portland Press-Herald).

We’ve provided in-depth exit poll analysis for ABC News in a few of the highest-profile U.S. elections since the 2016 presidential race. See our reporting of the 2017 New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections here, and our analysis of the 2017 Alabama special election, in which Doug Jones was the first Democrat elected to the Senate in the deep-red state since 1992, here.

One year after the election of President Trump, our newest ABC/Washington Post poll gauged Americans’ attitudes towards the president himself, Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Republican tax plan and the 2018 midterm elections. Our analyses have received media coverage from outlets including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, USA Today, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Newsweek (here and  here), the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Townhall, Inquisitr, and Axios, among others.

Our most recent ABC/Washington Post poll revealed the prevalence of work-related sexual harassment in American society. It’s been cited by The Hill, Fortune, Independent Journal Review, Newsmax, and Glamour, among others.