The following data originally appeared in Bravo Group’s Morning Scrapple email newsletter delivered on September 18, 2025. To become a subscriber click here.
Welcome back to Bravo Group’s Morning Scrapple, our snapshot of political opinion from the nation’s most important battleground state.
Below, you’ll find data on Pennsylvania’s political environment and voters’ views on a variety of topics, including the MAHA movement, Gavin Newsom’s social satire, and the naming of the Department of Defense.
Order Up.
September’s status quo
Generally speaking, is the United States heading in the right or wrong direction?
U.S. wrong track: 59% (August) → 59% (September)
U.S. right track: 34% (August) → 34% (September)
Generally speaking, is Pennsylvania heading in the right or wrong direction?
PA wrong track: 41% (August) → 40% (September)
PA right track: 37% (August) → 35% (September)
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as President?
Donald Trump, President: 37% (August) → 41% (September) approve
Do you approve or disapprove of the job John Fetterman/Dave McCormick is doing in the US Senate?
Dave McCormick, U.S. Senator: 33% (August) → 35% (September) approve
John Fetterman, U.S. Senator: 41% (August) → 38% (September) approve
If the election for Pennsylvania Governor was held today, who would you vote for?
Vote for Shapiro: 59% (August) → 58% (September)
Issues
Respondents were asked to choose the top three issues most important to them:
Tariff results
How are tariffs placed on products you regularly purchase affecting you?
Election Turnout in November?
How motivated are you to vote, if at all, in the November election for state and county judges, and local officials?
MAHA movement
When it comes to the quality of food in the United States, do you think the Make America Healthy Again movement will:
When it comes to the quality of innovative medicines in the United States, do you think the Make America Healthy Again will:
Vaccine response
Recently, some states have begun setting their own policies regarding vaccine requirements in response to new federal vaccine policies.
In your view, who should primarily decide public health policy—federal authorities or individual states?
In Pennsylvania, should public schools require students to be vaccinated against diseases such as measles and polio, with allowances for certain health or religious exemptions?
GAVIN NEWSOM
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom?
Those who selected “favorable” were shown this image:
Respondents were then asked, “How do you feel about Governor Newsom’s social media offensive that includes satirizing President Trump?”
War, what is it good for? According to Pennsylvania voters, it’s not good for a cabinet department name.
Should the United States Department of Defense be renamed the Department of War?
Each month, we survey Pennsylvania registered voters through digital advertising, randomized text message outreach and email recontact with prior opt-in survey participants. This multichannel recruitment ensures a refreshed and representative respondent pool.
This digital survey of 626 likely Pennsylvania voters was conducted from September 9-14, 2025. Results were weighted by age, gender, and political party to reflect Pennsylvania’s electorate, producing a 95% credibility interval: ±3.71 percentage points.
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