Chances are you are reading this post on your tablet or smartphone while catching up on the final season of Mad Men, watching the latest Modern Family episode, or rooting for the Rangers in the Stanley Cup playoffs. According to research, over half of Americans use a second screen such as a laptop, desktop, tablet […]
With every national poll of Democratic primary voters reporting at least 50-point leads against any other probable or improbable Democratic candidate, it is hard to see how Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be crowned the Democratic nominee. And, the Democratic primary voter data from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows that the recent […]
Public Opinion Strategies wishes to congratulate David Granger, the new President of Guyana. Sworn in on Saturday May 16th, David Granger and his Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change coalition represents the first time the Government has changed hands since 1992. Granger led the APNU/AFC multi-ethnic coalition to victory on May 11, breaking many of […]
As our previous research has indicated, Independents, with leaners included, constitute a growing portion of the electorate. The real story about the growth of Independents, though, is more nuanced and complex. First, in our recent look at party identification over time, we made a chart showing the drop in party identification (excluding leaners) over the […]
With the calendar flipping to April 15 and procrastinating Americans scrambling to file their income taxes today, two recent national surveys shed some light on what adults plan to do with their refunds. According to the Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll* more than one-in-three (37{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}) Americans who anticipate receiving a refund will use the money […]
Below are 10 key findings from the Q1 CNBC All-America Economic Survey, conducted from March 26-29 among 800 adults. The full poll can be found here. The margin of error on this poll is + 3.5{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}. Key Summary Points from the Poll This marks the second CNBC track in a row with pre-recession type data. […]
Pollsters famously maintain their findings represent attitudes as “a snapshot in time.” But, examining data points over a long period provides a great deal of insight into trends in public opinion. One of the most significant measures of public opinion is voters’ partisanship, and trends here can portend a lot, so we looked at party […]
Americans report attending religious services less frequently than they have in the past. The decline in the number of Americans saying they attend services “once a week or more often” and the corresponding rise in the number of Americans saying they “never” attend services has been especially noticeable over the past decade. There are strong […]
We wanted to know if Republican voters living in Blue states like California or Massachusetts are different from Republicans living in Red states like Texas or South Carolina. To answer our question, we merged together the Republican registered voters we interviewed in the 2014 NBC–WSJ surveys and broke their home states into one of three […]
Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey in January 2015 regarding Americans attitudes about mental health on behalf of The Kennedy Forum. The survey results show Americans believe mental health conditions are a serious public health problem and changes need to be made to the way we are handling mental health conditions in the […]
