Plus, new survey data on views of impeachment and the Democratic race
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March 14, 2020
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PRESIDENT'S NOTE
** How we're covering COVID-19
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The spread of the coronavirus is affecting communities worldwide, with closed offices and schools, canceled sporting events and other public gatherings, and turmoil in the stock markets. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be tracking public opinion related to the virus and its effects, as well as sharing previous research findings that can help bring context to current events. Stay tuned.
Michael Dimock
President, Pew Research Center
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** As coronavirus spreads, which U.S. workers have paid sick leave – and which don’t? ([link removed])
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One of the key pieces of advice offered by health experts, as COVID-19 continues its spread throughout the United States, is simple: If you feel sick, stay home. For working people, though, that’s a lot easier to do if you have access to paid sick leave ([link removed]) – which 24% of U.S. civilian workers, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not.
* Amid coronavirus threat, Americans generally have a high level of trust in medical doctors ([link removed])
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** Explore our latest Election News Pathways data ([link removed])
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We’ve just released the data from the latest survey in our Election News Pathways project, covering subjects from Donald Trump’s impeachment to perceptions of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Our interactive data tool ([link removed]) makes it easy to explore the results through multiple lenses, including demographics and partisanship.
* 5 key findings from the new Pathways survey, from impeachment to the Democratic race ([link removed])
* Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries ([link removed])
* Democrats see Biden and Sanders as very different ideologically ([link removed])
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** Americans' views on Trump, religion and politics ([link removed])
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White evangelical Protestants see the president as advancing their interests ([link removed]) and feel their side generally has been winning recently on political matters important to them. But even among this strongly supportive constituency, most do not view Donald Trump as a very religious, honest or morally upstanding person (though many say he is somewhat religious, fairly honest or fairly morally upstanding).
* About a third in U.S. see God’s hand in presidential elections, but fewer say God picks winners based on policies ([link removed])
** Americans and Germans differ in their views of each other and the world ([link removed])
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Three years into a turbulent period of American-German relations, there continues to be a wide divergence ([link removed]) in views of bilateral relations and security policy between the publics of both countries. On the core question of relations between the United States and Germany, three-quarters of Americans say the relationship is in good shape, but only 34% of Germans agree.
** A majority of Americans continue to favor replacing Electoral College with a nationwide popular vote ([link removed])
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Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) say the Constitution should be amended ([link removed]) so the presidential candidate who receives the most votes nationwide wins, while 40% prefer to keep the current system in which the candidate who receives the most Electoral College votes wins the election.
* From 2016: Why Electoral College wins are bigger than popular vote victories ([link removed])
** What to know about the 2020 census ([link removed])
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Once a decade, the federal government asks everyone living in the United States to be counted in a census ([link removed]) . The 2020 count began in Alaska in January, and the first numbers will be published by the end of the year. As the national enumeration moves forward, here are the basics about this year’s census.
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** Fast facts on how Greeks see migrants as Greece-Turkey border crisis deepens ([link removed])
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** Older people are more likely to live alone in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world ([link removed])
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** About one-in-four Americans say they’ve had fewer advantages in life than others their age ([link removed])
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** From our research
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The share of U.S. adults who say it is “very important” ([link removed]) to them to have a president who personally lives a moral, ethical life
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