Gallup’s unique daily interviewing, involving more than 350,000 completed interviews a year, along with Gallup’s 2013 50-state poll consisting of approximately 600 interviews in each state, provides the unique ability to measure the views of the residents of each state in the union on a wide variety of important measures.
Gallup has now isolated 14 key indicators from these data sources at the state level, and has compiled them into a series of State Scorecards, one for each of the 50 states. … These key metrics involve the views of each state’s residents regarding their local and national economy, state and national political viewpoints and assessments, evaluations of the state as a place to live, and views on cultural characteristics of the state. CONT.
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