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Public Opinion Strategies is a national political and public affairs research firm. Founded in 1991, we have conducted more than six million interviews with voters and consumers in all fifty states and over two dozen foreign countries. Read More
While the academic year is drawing to a close in schools across the country, Americans are not ready to let Congress and the president take a vacation from the issue of education reform. In a new Gallup study conducted May 4-5, eight-in-ten (81%) adults say “improving the quality of education received by American school children” [...] Read more
During the 2012 election, one of the perceived advantages President Obama held over Mitt Romney was the president’s seemingly firm grasp of foreign policy issues. During the summer months of the campaign, fully 47% of voters felt President Obama was better equipped to handle foreign affairs issues compared to 32% for Romney according to a [...] Read more
With the recent bombing in Boston, terrorism has returned to the forefront of American minds. But did the horror of last month’s attack have the effect of making Americans more worried about becoming a victim of terrorism themselves? Fortunately, there is historical data available to answer that question. Many thanks to the public opinion archives [...] Read more
With the flurry of media attention surrounding the Gang of Eight releasing the details of its bipartisan immigration reform bill a couple weeks ago, immigration reform has once again moved to the front-burner of American political discourse. Catchphrases such as “securing our borders” and “providing a pathway to citizenship” have been used so much in [...] Read more
This is the first in a series of posts on a survey of 3,103 18-29 year-olds conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics and Knowledge Networks. The survey was conducted March 20, 2013 – April 8, 2013. President Obama’s approval rating with 18-29 year olds is 52% approve/46% disapprove. This is marginally better than his [...] Read more
In six of the last nine years, Public Opinion Strategies has analyzed the policy proposals put forth by every state’s governor in their annual State of the State speeches.* Overall, there were 580 policy proposals this year—370 from Republican governors, 196 from Democratic governors, and the remainder from an Independent. Over time we have tracked [...] Read more