Polling Matters
Explore Gallup's research.
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Protestants and highly religious Americans, traditionally Israel's most sympathetic supporters, are shrinking in size.
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Americans support strict border control and fair pathways for immigrants entering the U.S. illegally. Public opinion favors both deportation and citizenship options.
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Americans' personal satisfaction remains significantly higher than satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S.
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Americans' lessened confidence in society's institutions and norms may affect society's ability to deal with crucial external and internal threats.
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Trends measuring Americans' values need to be analyzed in the context of differences in question wording and changes in methodology.
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Despite declining fertility and marriage rates, Americans want to have children and to be married.
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Recent Gallup data confirm a significant and growing relationship between religiosity and partisan identity in the U.S.
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Recent Supreme Court decisions may have conflicting impacts on Americans' overall opinion of the court.
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Survey researchers face the difficult challenge of meaningfully defining and measuring evangelicals in the U.S. today.
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Knowing what the public is thinking and feeling between elections is an invaluable asset in a representative democracy.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been identified as an evangelical for most of his public career, but defining exactly what that means today faces a number of challenges.
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Americans value diversity in higher education but continue to oppose using race as a factor in college admissions.
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Any new effort to reform healthcare will meet with significant challenges but should directly involve the views of the people themselves.
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The percentage of Americans with no formal religious identity has increased dramatically since the 1950s, but that increase appears to have leveled off in Gallup's recent data.
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Crime became an issue in the recent midterm elections, underscoring the importance of understanding what lies behind Americans' views of the issue.
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Americans' views about their federal government are complex and often paradoxical.
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Read a review of where the American public stands on gun control, immigration, and climate change.
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Where does the public stand on abortion, critical race theory and gender identity issues?
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The economy and inflation are Americans' top concerns leading into the November midterm elections.
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Despite reports of pandemic-era declines in test scores, parents of K-12 children remain just as satisfied with their children's quality of education as before.