More than half of Americans surveyed say NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was not being truthful when he said no one in the league office, prior to its release Monday, saw the video of Ray Rice punching and knocking unconscious his then-fiancee inside a casino elevator. Opinion is also mixed on […] Read more »
How Your Party and Sports Line Up
As midterms approach, a quick political question: How closely did you follow the story this summer of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart’s car striking and killing a competitor at a dirt-racing track? If it’s been a big topic for you, there’s a good chance you vote Republican. If you have spent […] Read more »
Business and Industry Sector Images Continue to Improve
Americans’ views of 24 business and industry sectors continue to grow more positive after falling precipitously in 2008 during the Great Recession. The average net-positive rating of the 24 sectors is now +18, up from -1 in 2008, and the highest since 2003. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Poll: 71% say keep Redskins
Nearly three-fourths of Americans favor letting the Washington Redskins keep their nickname, but the percentage who think it should be changed has tripled in the past two decades, according to a poll conducted by Langer Research for “Outside the Lines.” Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of Americans surveyed now think […] Read more »
World Cup Fan Migration
The FIFA World Cup is the largest event in sports, with an estimated audience of more than 750 million people worldwide. With 1.2 billion users around the globe, Facebook is the main social platform where people express their support for teams and players. Through the end of the semi-finals, over […] Read more »
Ann Coulter, the World Cup and What the Polls Show
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter probably didn’t watch the US play Belgium on Tuesday afternoon. But that didn’t stop her from tweeting “Doing the job Americans just won’t do: Immigrants fill up roster of ‘U.S.’ soccer team.” This tweet extended her rant from last week in which she blamed Ted Kennedy’s […] Read more »