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There’s a new silent majority in America: the millions of people who have remained quietly withdrawn from public life in an effort to stem the nation’s coronavirus outbreak.

New HuffPost/YouGov poll finds continued, broad support for stay-at-home orders: huffpost.com/entry/poll-cor…

This is in line with a whole bunch of other recent polling:
nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
vox.com/2020/4/20/2122…
today.yougov.com/topics/politic…
people-press.org/2020/04/16/cov…

In a poll taken Friday-Sunday:
-86% of Americans were trying to stay home
-78% called state stay-at-home orders right decision
-65% would stay home regardless of restrictions
-60% more worried about states reopening too quickly than too slowly

huffpost.com/entry/poll-cor…

Thinking about any coronavirus-related restrictions that are in place in the areas where you live, do you think that there are currently:
15% Too many restrictions
53% About the right level
23% Not enough restrictions
9% Not sure

huffpost.com/entry/poll-cor…

The last few years have established a typical, hyperpartisan pattern of public opinion in response to current events. So far, coronavirus crisis has somewhat defied pattern. 87% of D's and 77% of R's said that state stay-at-home orders remain the right decision.

As of yet, this crisis has not massively affected overall views of Trump, but neither have Trump’s sporadic calls to reopen the country appeared to affect public unwillingness to do so.

Full crosstabs for our latest poll here: big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2…

Interactive version (seriously, check these out if you haven't, they're cool) here: app.crunch.io/api/public/cru…