… According to the latest Economist/YouGov poll, 48% of Americans strongly or somewhat oppose judges overruling decisions made by the FDA approving a drug as “safe and effective.” One-third (33%) of Americans support the judge’s decision. A majority of Americans (53%) support the abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone and misoprostol being legal […] Read more »
Open marijuana use is socially acceptable, most say
Americans don’t just think marijuana use should be legal — they also now think using it out in the open is socially acceptable, and most won’t judge others for doing so or feel that they’d be judged themselves. Today a slight majority of Americans consider using marijuana openly to be […] Read more »
How Public Polling Has Changed in the 21st Century
The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections left many Americans wondering whether polling was broken and what, if anything, pollsters might do about it. A new Pew Research Center study finds that most national pollsters have changed their approach since 2016, and in some cases dramatically. Most (61%) of the pollsters […] Read more »
To understand American politics, you need to move beyond left and right
There’s a more sophisticated way to understand how Americans divide themselves politically. Torsten Asmus/ iStock / Getty Images Plus Graham Wright, Brandeis University and Sasha Volodarsky, Northeastern University Are Americans really as politically polarized as they seem – and everybody says? It’s definitely true that Democrats and Republicans increasingly hate […] Read more »
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches unlikely presidential bid backed by 14% of Biden voters
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches his unlikely bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday with the support of 14% of voters who backed President Joe Biden in 2020, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. That is surprising strength for a candidate who has a famous political name but is […] Read more »
Support for Slashing Fossil Fuel Use Steady at 58% in U.S.
Americans’ support for dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions hasn’t changed since Gallup first tested this proposal in 2019. About six in 10 continue to be in favor. However, the public is less confident than they were four years ago that the […] Read more »