data <\/a>includes a random sample of 834 registered Pennsylvania voters who were interviewed from Feb. 18 to March 1. <\/p>\nOf the voters who were interviewed, 353 identified as Democrat, 347 identified as Republican and 134 identified as independent. <\/p>\n
Donald Trump, U.S. government<\/p>\n
According to a report from the college, 51% of voters said Donald Trump is doing “a poor job” as president. 10% said he’s doing “only a fair job,” 18% said he’s doing “a good job” and 21% said he’s doing “an excellent job.” <\/p>\n
With immigration, 42% of voters said Trump is doing either “excellent” or “very good,” while 51% said he’s doing “below average” or “failing.”<\/p>\n
Voters had similar opinions on Trump’s handling of foreign policy. 37% said he is doing “excellent” or “very good,” and 51% said he’s doing “below average” or “failing.”<\/p>\n
In general, data appeared to show dissatisfaction with the state of the U.S. government. 65% of voters said they were either “somewhat” or “very” dissatisfied with the way democracy works in the country.<\/p>\n
On Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania elections<\/p>\n
If the 2026 gubernatorial election was held today, 48% of voters said they would vote for incumbent Josh Shapiro. 28% said they would vote for Republican candidate Stacy Garrity. 7% said they’d vote for another candidate, and 17% did not answer. <\/p>\n
If elections for the U.S. House of Representatives were held today, 44% of voters said they’d vote for a Democratic candidate. 37% said they’d vote for a Republican candidate. 19% said they do not know which party they’d vote for. <\/p>\n
On a broader level, 44% of voters feel Pennsylvania is generally “off on the wrong track,” compared to 39% of voters who said the state is “headed in the right direction.”<\/p>\n
These results were similar to data from a Quinnipiac University poll<\/a> of Pennsylvania voters that was conducted from Feb. 19-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 New poll data from Franklin & Marshall College revealed the temperature of Pennsylvania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-130762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}