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Unsurprisingly, opinions among Democrats and Republicans in this poll were polarized, but Trump enjoyed a notable job approval advantage among independent voters. That's concerning for Democrats since, according to exit polling, independents broke for Biden 54 percent to 41 percent in 2020. So while downballot Democrats haven't seemed to suffer from Biden's low approval ratings in contests since he took office, with the president back on the ballot, they'll surely be looking to remind that critical group of independent voters how they felt about Trump four years ago.

—Tia Yang

What Americans think about college athletes unionizing

Earlier this month, the men's basketball team at Dartmouth College voted to join a union, becoming the first university sports team to do so in the U.S. In an AP-NORC poll conducted the week before the vote took place, 55 percent of respondents said they did not think college athletes should be allowed to form a union, while 42 percent said they should be allowed to.

But a YouGov poll a week after the vote painted a more complicated picture. The same share of respondents, 42 percent, said that they supported allowing college athletes to unionize. But a much smaller share was opposed: just 26 percent. However, in the YouGov poll, a third of respondents said they weren't sure, whereas in the AP-NORC poll, only 1 percent said so. Differences in methodology probably explain much of the discrepancy between the polls' levels of opposition, but it's also possible that the public softened its opposition to unionization after hearing about the Dartmouth team.

The team's fight to unionize isn't over yet, though: After the vote took place, Dartmouth's Board of Trustees asked the National Labor Relations Board to nullify the results, teeing up what could be a drawn-out legal battle.

—Cooper Burton

CORRECTION (March 22, 2024, 12:15 p.m.): A previous version of this article referred to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The article has been updated to reflect the organization's new name, KFF.

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