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Three recent polls have all purported to measure the public’s reaction to the revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has engaged in tracking massive numbers of Americans’ email and phone records. But the polls have come up with wildly contradictory results. Pew says the... |
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At a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, June 3, Frank Newport released the results of an extensive review of Gallup’s poor polling performance in 2012, when it consistently over-estimated Romney’s electoral support.
The extent to which Gallup’s results were an... |
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According to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll on immigration reform, a solid majority of Americans continue to support a “path to legal status for undocumented immigrants,” 58% in favor, 38% opposed.
While that seems to suggest a committed public in favor of reform, with... |
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Recently, Fairleigh Dickinson’s PublicMind poll released results of a national survey showing 29% of registered voters agree with the statement, “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our... |
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The Washington Post and Pew announced last week that only 15% of Americans were “angry” at the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the gun bill that included required background checks for gun buyers. Another 32% were “disappointed,” for a total of just 47% who reacted... |
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One of the questions facing lawmakers in their attempt to reform the immigration system is what to do with the estimated 11 million immigrants currently living in the United States illegally. Besides deportation, which most politicians and the general public oppose, the two major choices are to... |
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With many politicians falling over themselves in an effort to join the gay marriage movement, we might expect that most Americans today would support a referendum on that issue. But Nate Silver, the statistical guru who was uncannily accurate in aggregating polls during the past two... |
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With the Supreme Court considering two cases involving same-sex marriage, it may be useful to review how opposed the public might be to decisions that would strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in that state.
While most... |
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A recent article from "Congressional news site" The Hill claims that voters are more likely to trust the Democratic Party than the Republican Party on budget matters, “even though a strong majority actually prefer Republican fiscal policies.”
Moreover, although the... |
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Last week I blogged about the ABC/Washington Post poll on the sequester, citing with approval Matthew Yglesias’ characterization of the article reporting the results as “deeply... |
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Two recent polls come to contradictory conclusions about the public’s willingness to accept spending cuts imposed by the sequestration that went into effect March 1.
A Pew poll last month reported that among 19 government programs tested, not one elicited majority public... |
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According to a recent article in the New York Times, the city’s bike riders are anxious about the future of bike lanes in the post-Bloomberg era. The “cycling haven” created by Mayor Bloomberg’s expansion of bike lanes may lead to a “reckoning,” with perhaps a... |
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In his recent commentary in the New York Times on the 2012 election, Thomas Edsall notes “the persistence of racial resentment” among American voters. While one would be hard-pressed to deny that general conclusion, it is unfortunate that Edsall buys into a flawed report that... |
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According to Pew’s latest poll, as introduced by Judy Woodruff on the PBS Newshour, “about one-quarter of Americans trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time. A whopping 73 percent don't.”
Whopping indeed! Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew... |
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With all the media attention given to the so-called fiscal cliff crisis at the turn of the year, you might think that most people would have strong opinions either for or against the final agreement. But a new Pew poll finds that the vast majority of Americans were largely unengaged on the... |
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A new poll is being advertised as one that “convinces House Republicans they can win on the debt limit.” House Speaker John Boehner announced the results of the Winston Group poll to his party colleagues in the House, noting that 60% of Americans said they oppose increasing the debt... |
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George Will commented last month on ABC's This Week Sunday that “Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It’s old people.”
Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, a conservative website devoted to “exposing and combating liberal media bias,” took... |
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Three recent polls show how convoluted the debate can become over what the public thinks about banning semi-automatic weapons.
All three polls were conducted in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook School shootings, and all three come to different conclusions as to how much public support there... |
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Several recent polls have shown slight majorities of American adults with favorable views of same-sex marriage. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll confirms this trend, but also provides evidence that supports iMediaEthics’ recent PollCheck survey, which reveals widespread... |
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