
Poll: Majority of Voters Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement in U.S.
A majority of American voters oppose resettling Syrian refugees in the U.S., according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released Wednesday.

A majority of American voters oppose resettling Syrian refugees in the U.S., according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released Wednesday.

Most voters oppose accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S., but they see homegrown terrorists as a greater threat, according to a new poll. A majority of voters believed the security vetting for Syrian refugees should be increased both with and without and explanation of how the government currently screens refugees — however fewer said it should be stricter with the description: 69 percent said the screening should be stricter without the description and 53 said it should be stricter with a description.

The latest poll from Qunnipiac confirms Donald Trump is maintaining a solid lead over the rest of the Republican pack, with Ben Carson slipping a bit, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida moving into second place.

Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner in the GOP presidential field as Dr. Ben Carson faded from second to third place, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Marco Rubio moves into second.

In what the Hartford Courant refers to as “a stunning rebuke” of Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP), the newly released Quinnipiac University survey finds the Connecticut governor’s approval rating has plummeted to 32%, the “lowest score for any governor in the nine states surveyed” this year.

Donald Trump leads the Republican field in Connecticut with 34 percent, “his highest score in any Quinnipiac University state poll so far.” And while Hillary Clinton leads on the Democrat side with 37 percent, that’s down from 53 percent back in March.

Pundits are trying to explain why Donald Trump is at the top of the GOP’s polls, and many are grasping at the charge that he’s leading because of support from the “low information voter.”

In the latest Quinnipiac poll, the pollsters asked a simple question of Americans: “What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Jeb Bush?” The answer? Jeb.

A new Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows that American voters oppose the nuclear deal with Iran by a two-to-one margin. That two-thirds majority corresponds to the vote margins needed in the U.S. House and Senate to override the president’s veto and cancel the deal.

Donald Trump is number one in a new nationwide poll from Quinnipiac University, with a seven-percentage point lead over all other GOP presidential candidates. Trump took 20 percent in the poll, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker comes in second with 13 percent.

“With so many Republican candidates, there is no clear leader in these key swing states in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination,” says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll. The poll focused on three states – Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania – because “since 1960 no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states.”

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign message – “We The People” – seems to be helping him climb in the polls.

The vast majority of Americans say the U.S. is losing the fight against ISIS, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.

A series of polls makes the case that voters support President Barack Obama’s Iran deal, despite the objections of Republicans in Congress. The latest is the Quinnipiac swing state poll, which finds that voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia support a deal with Iran by a 3-to-1 margin. They also support letting Congress decide by a 3-to-1 margin, so the case against the administration’s position is solid. But the poll’s support for the deal is entirely dependent on bad wording that covers up what is actually going on.

A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is surging in Iowa, leading the state with 25 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers.