• Six-point decrease since last year in moral acceptability of death penalty• Birth control, drinking alcohol, divorce most morally acceptable• Largest gap between liberals and conservatives (52 points) is on abortion CONT. Megan Brenan, Gallup The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. […] Read more »
Two-Thirds of Americans Think Government Should Do More on Climate
A majority of Americans continue to say they see the effects of climate change in their own communities and believe that the federal government falls short in its efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change. At a time when partisanship colors most views of policy, broad majorities of the […] Read more »
Environmental Ratings, Global Warming Concern, Flat in 2020
Gallup’s 2020 update of its annual Environment survey, conducted March 2-13, records little change in Americans’ views on a number of ratings of the environment as well as the government’s handling of the issue. Interviewing for this survey was conducted as coronavirus-related concerns and closures were mounting across the U.S., […] Read more »
Western Voters Demand Ambitious Agenda to Protect Public Lands
The tenth annual Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll released today shows voters in the Mountain West are calling for an aggressive agenda to protect more public lands in the face of threats from climate change impacts and energy development. The poll, which surveyed […] Read more »
Most Americans say climate change impacts their community, but effects vary by region
Roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults (62%) say climate change is currently affecting their local community either a great deal or some, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. This finding is consistent with a 2018 Center survey, in which 59% of Americans said global climate change was affecting their local […] Read more »
Wisconsin: Marquette Law School Poll finds shifts in public opinion favorable to President Trump
Even as hearings that could lead to President Donald Trump’s impeachment heat up, a new Marquette University Law School poll of Wisconsin registered voters finds consistent, if sometimes modest, shifts in public opinion away from support of impeachment and toward supporting Trump in next year’s presidential election. CONT. Charles Franklin, […] Read more »