A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation’s youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican’s performance in the White House than older Americans. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center […] Read more »
CBS/YouGov poll: Young Americans believe they can change the world
A new CBS News poll conducted by YouGov shows a generation gap. Most younger Americans, ages 18-29, believe their generation can change the world — or is already changing it. But there are big differences in how younger and older Americans see things. Eight in 10 Americans say there is […] Read more »
Assessing Recent Partisanship Trends among Millennial Men and Women
Pew Research recently released 2017 data on partisanship among several demographic subgroups that it’s been tracking for decades. Trends in millennial party affiliation by gender–men and women born between 1981 and 1996–have especially gained attention. According to the Pew data, while partisanship among millennial men has been very stable in […] Read more »
Most Americans say students should be involved in gun policy and school safety
More than six in 10 Americans, including most parents, think students should get involved in the issue of gun policy and school safety; just over a third say the issue would be better left to adults. CONT. CBS News Read more »
More U.S. College Students Say Campus Climate Deters Speech
Sixty-one percent of U.S. college students agree that the climate on their campus prevents some people from expressing their views because others might find them offensive. In 2016, 54% of college students held this view. These results are based on a 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey of 3,014 randomly sampled U.S. […] Read more »
8 ways college student views on free speech are evolving
As college campuses across the United States grapple with questions surrounding the power and limits of free expression, a new Gallup-Knight Foundation survey of U.S. college students provides a view into how attitudes about the First Amendment on college campuses are evolving and what that means for our democracy. The […] Read more »