Immigration enforcement and reform, the hot button issue that was intensely debated in the 2016 Presidential Election and remains front and center for lawmakers grappling with the issue on local, state and federal levels, is the focus of the 2017 Texas Lyceum Poll. … Texans believe that immigration is the […] Read more »
The American Identity: Points of Pride, Conflicting Views, and a Distinct Culture
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order last month on immigration and refugees, Americans are supportive of the country’s diversity and generally favorable toward immigration. However, according to a recent poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, Americans are less favorable toward refugees and […] Read more »
Democrats have basic fact problem
We ran a new PredictWise/Pollfish Poll on facts about politics on January 26, 2017 and found that Republican talking points are much more salient than Democratic talking points. This is not a story about partisan asymmetry around what people believe (although that exists), but about how Democrats also believe key […] Read more »
Americans and Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks and data breaches are facts of life for government agencies, businesses and individuals alike in today’s digitized and networked world. … Previous Pew Research Center studies of the digital privacy environment have found that many Americans fear they have lost control of their personal information and many worry whether […] Read more »
Infrastructure Spending Deemed Most Important Trump Promise
Two-thirds of Americans (69%) say it is “very important” for President-elect Donald Trump to keep his campaign promise to enact major spending on infrastructure renewal. More than half say Trump’s promises to reduce income taxes for all Americans, establish tariffs on foreign imports and deport illegal immigrants convicted of crimes […] Read more »
Americans’ Satisfaction Steady or Up, Except on Race Matters
Americans’ satisfaction with both race relations and the situation for blacks and other racial minorities in the U.S. edged down from last year, the only two areas of the 28 Gallup measured to decline significantly over this period. … The biggest positive changes over the past year were increases in […] Read more »