Tag Archives: Topic: Polls

Newsmax: “The voters who said they were most interested in the November elections favor Republican control of Congress by a 20-point margin, with 56 percent backing the GOP and 36 percent backing Democrats.”

Christian Post: “A majority of U.S. voters expect Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to be confirmed by the Senate, a new poll shows. Eighty-two percent believe the U.S. solicitor general will get the necessary confirmation votes to take a seat on the nation’s highest court, according to Rasmussen Reports . . . ”

Washington Post: “The poll, conducted May 3-6, finds that 46 percent overall favor legal same-sex marriage, 44 percent oppose it, and 10 percent have no opinion. Among registered voters, 48 percent are in favor and 43 percent are opposed.”

FirstCoastNews.com: – “Americans 45 and older are far more open to sex outside of marriage than they were 10 years ago, but they’re engaging in sex less often and with less satisfaction, according to a major new survey . . . ”

CNSNews: “Just two weeks after a federal judge in Madison, Wis., ruled that the annual National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, 92 percent of Americans told the USA Today/Gallup poll that they believe in God and only 5 percent said they oppose the National Day of Prayer.”

OK Gazette: “The poll asked 500 statewide registered voters if the government should repeal the policy that allows homosexuals to serve in the military as long as they keep their sexual preference a secret. Just more than 48 percent disagreed with repealing the policy, while a little more than 34 percent wanted repeal.”

CNA: “A survey of the Republic of Ireland shows that 70 percent of Irish people support the constitutional protection for the unborn, including the prohibition of abortion.”

Washington Post: “A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that judicial experience is the most valued quality among a list of professional and personal characteristics. Seven in 10 say service as a judge is a positive quality for a Supreme Court nominee, while only 5 percent see it as a negative. In contrast, 35 percent view experience outside the legal world as a positive . . . In the Post-ABC poll, the question of a gay nominee is more divisive. While only 4 percent consider it a positive, 22 percent say it would be a strongly negative factor.”

Medical News Today: “According to a NARAL survey conducted earlier this year and released exclusively to Newsweek, 51% of voters younger than age 30 who oppose abortion rights consider it a “very important” voting issue, compared with 26% of their peers who support abortion rights. The survey, which included 700 young voters, showed that many young people do not ‘view abortion as an imperiled right in need of defenders’ and that they ‘are more likely than their boomer parents to see abortion as a moral issue,’ according to Kliff.”

Angus Reid: “People in Spain are not satisfied with their government’s new pregnancy termination regulations, according to a poll by NC Report published in La Razón. 54.2 per cent of respondents oppose the Abortion Law.”

AP: “Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don’t trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America’s ills, the survey found . . . ”

Gallup: “Americans’ favorable rating of the Democratic Party dropped to 41% in a late March USA Today/Gallup poll, the lowest point in the 18-year history of this measure. Favorable impressions of the Republican Party are now at 42%, thus closing the gap between the two parties’ images that has prevailed for the past four years.”

Times Online: “David Cameron will this week unveil a £1 billion tax break for married couples, as a Sunday Times poll puts the Conservatives on course for a 20-seat majority.”

la Croix: “Europeans recognize a privileged place [for Christianity], in its Catholic, Protestant or even orthodox [forms]. In the five main countries concerned by the Ifop poll conducted for La Croix (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain), two thirds of respondents consider that the message and values of Christianity are still valid. But this is not the case for one third of them. Christianity remains a feature of the religious culture of the old continent, but it is no longer exclusive.” [Google Translation]

USA Today: “Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the health care overhaul signed into law last week costs too much and expands the government’s role in health care too far, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, underscoring an uphill selling job ahead for President Obama and congressional Democrats . . . ”

Christian Post: “A quarter of American Christians identify as charismatic or Pentecostal, a new survey shows. Those aged 26 to 44 are most likely to claim the Holy Spirit-filled identity (29 percent) compared to other age groups, the Barna Group found.”

Public Policy Institute of California: “Among all Californians, residents are more likely to favor (50%) than oppose (45%) same-sex marriage for the first time in the PPIC Statewide Surveys.” Public Policy Institute of California: “Among all Californians, residents are more likely to favor (50%) than oppose (45%) same-sex marriage for the first time in the PPIC Statewide Surveys.”

The Desert Sun: “Roughly 49 percent agree states should sue, while 37 percent oppose the suits. Fourteen percent are undecided, according to a national survey by Rasmussen Reports released today.”

Warsaw Business Journal: “The results of a poll by the GfK Polonia institute, carried out for Rzeczpospolita, established that only five percent of respondents supported free access to abortion, while 79 percent opposed legalizing marriage between homosexuals. The strongest opposition, however, was towards the adoption of children by homosexuals- with 93 percent against the idea . . . 59 percent of respondents would approve an abortion in ‘certain circumstances,’ while 34 percent opposed the practice outright.”

Gallup: “Gallup’s underemployment measure hit 20.0% on March 15 — up from 19.7% two weeks earlier and 19.5% at the start of the year . . . Gallup classifies Americans as underemployed if they are unemployed or working part-time but wanting full-time work.”

LifeNews: “The poll finds 46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of a public option will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine . . . The Medicus Firm, a leading physician search and consulting firm based in Atlanta and Dallas, conducted the survey.”

LifeNews: “A new Wall St. Journal poll finds opposition to the pro-abortion Senate health care bill at its highest levels yet, but a top Democrat misrepresented the poll.”

Barna Group: “In all, 42% of Americans said that the meaning of Easter was the resurrection of Jesus or that it signifies Christ death and return to life. One out of every 50 adults (2%) said that they would describe Easter as the most important holiday of their faith . . . In terms of age, members of the Boomer generation (73%, ages 45 to 63) were among the most likely to describe Easter as a religious holiday for them, compared with two-thirds of Elders (66% of those ages 64-plus) and Busters (66%, ages 26 to 44). The youngest adult generation, the Mosaics (ages 18 to 25), were the least likely age segment to say Easter is a religious holiday (58%), reflecting the increasingly secular mindset of young adults.”

Gallup: “Gallup analysis of U.S. public opinion trends on abortion shows that generational differences in support for broadly legal abortion have diminished over the past decade. In the mid-1970s, when Gallup started polling on the issue, adults aged 18 to 29 and 30 to 49 were the most supportive of legal abortion under any circumstances, and those 65 and older the least, with 50- to 64-year-olds falling in between. That pattern continued through the late 1990s. Since 2000, however, all age groups with the exception of seniors have shown similar levels of support for broadly legal abortion.”

AP: “The Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found two-thirds of those surveyed oppose changing the law to allow bets to be placed over the Internet, and 53 percent oppose allowing bets on the outcome of professional or college sporting events.”

WorldNetDaily: “A new poll shows 60 percent of Americans with children in elementary or secondary school say most school textbooks are more focused on being politically correct than ensuring accuracy.”

AFP on Yahoo: “But according to a poll published by the Christian daily Kristelig Dagbladet on Wednesday, 63 percent of the Danish population would be happy to see gay couples married at the altar.”

APP.com: “New Jersey polls over the past six years show that support for gay marriage has drifted between 41 and 50 percent. At the same time, opposition has hovered within a nearly identical 40 to 50 percent range.”

Angus Reid: “The governing Conservative Party maintains the upper hand in Canada, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 33 per cent of respondents would support the Tories in the next election to the House of Commons. The opposition Liberal Party is second with 29 per cent, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 20 per cent, the Bloc Québécois with nine per cent, and the Greens also with nine per cent.”

Angus Reid: “More Americans are expressing dissatisfaction with their legislative branch, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 73 per cent of respondents disapprove of the performance of Congress, up eight points since January.”

USA Today: “Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter has jumped out in front of Republican Pat Toomey, 49% to 42%, in the latest Quinnipiac Poll. In December, Specter and Toomey were tied at 44%.”

CNN: “Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.”

Washington Post: “Facing high unemployment and a difficult economy, most Americans think the United States will have a smaller role in the world economy in the coming years, and many believe that while the 20th century may have been the ‘American Century,’ the 21st century will belong to China . . . ”

CNN Politics: “Support for allowing gays in the military is much higher among Democrats than Republicans, but the policy wins support from a majority of Republicans as well. More than eight in ten Democrats say that gays should be allowed to serve; 62 of Republicans and 63 percent of Independents agree with that view.”

“Gallup’s daily measure of U.S. employment reveals that 19.9% of the U.S. workforce was underemployed during the month of January, translating to close to 30 million Americans who are working less than their desired capacity. Those who were underemployed reported spending 36% less than those who were employed, $48 per day versus $75 per day.”

AP: “The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent. Observers expect further increases as 78 million boomers born between 1945 and 1964 age . . . ”

LA Times: “The Pew Forum reports that fewer than 20% of people age 18 to 29 attend church services regularly, but about three-quarters of them believe in an afterlife — about the same rate as older generations . . . ”

Politico: “‘While the substantive debate has been resolved, the only real chance for Congress to actually get repeal in the next three years is for [President Barack] Obama to put repeal into the must-pass 2011 Authorization bill,’ said Nathaniel Frank, a senior researcher at the Palm Center, who is pressing for immediate action rather than delaying for a year while the Pentagon studies the logistical issues involved in ending the ban.”

Tony Mauro writes at Law.com (The National Law Journal): “Critics of the Supreme Court’s January ruling in Citizens United v. FEC are pointing happily to a poll released Wednesday that indicates widespread public opposition to the decision and its green light for more corporate and union expenditures in election campaigns . . . But not everyone reads the Washington Post poll results in the same way . . . ”

FiveThirtyEight.com reports on the results of various polls.

Washington Post: “In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 47 percent say gay marriages should be legal, with 31 percent saying they feel that way ‘strongly.’ … Two-thirds now say they favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to form civil unions that would give them many of the same legal rights as married couples. That’s an increase of 12 percentage points since a December 2007 poll that asked about civil unions for homosexual couples.”

UPI: “The online survey found 42 percent of respondents favored legalizing euthanasia while 36 percent opposed its legalization, results released by Angus Reid from New York Wednesday showed.”

Bloomberg: “In the survey by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, 65 percent said ending the current policy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ that lets gays serve as long as they don’t reveal their sexual orientation, wouldn’t be divisive or hurt combat effectiveness. Disagreeing were 30 percent. Among members of military families, 57 percent saw no detrimental effect to ending the “don’t ask” policy, while 38 percent disagreed . . . ”

National Review: “A new Marist poll shows President Obama’s disapproval rating (47 percent) exceeding his approval rating (44 percent). Among independents, just 29 percent approve of the president’s job performance, while 57 percent disapprove.”

Des Moines Register: “Among six hot-button topics, a new Iowa Poll shows a majority of Iowans consider only a ban on text messaging while driving worth the Legislature’s time during a session shortened by 20 days to cut costs. Iowans are not enthusiastic about devoting time to debates on gay marriage, puppy mills, gun control, payday loans or gambling . . .

“The Gallup Poll reports that a majority of Democrats, 53%, have a ‘positive’ image of socialism . . . In total, more than one-third of Americans, 36%, have a positive image of socialism.”

Angus Reid: “Many Americans believe their Supreme Court will ultimately ban same-sex marriage, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 52 per cent of respondents expect a decision that would define marriage federally as between a man and a woman. In addition, 58 per cent of respondents say they would prefer a ruling that defines marriage federally as between a man and a woman.”

Irish Examiner: “Three-in-five 18-35 year olds believe abortion should be legalised, according to a sex survey which found one-in-four women has experienced an unplanned pregnancy. The national poll also found almost 10% of 18-34 year olds has been involved in a relationship where an abortion took place. The survey carried out by Red C on behalf of the Irish Examiner found three-in-four women believe the morning-after pill should be available over-the-counter (OTC). Curiously, less than one in seven men said they had been in a relationship that resulted in an unplanned pregnancy. But Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe, research and policy manager with the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme, said not all men may know their partner is pregnant.”

Washington Post: A year into his presidency, President Obama faces a polarized nation and souring public assessments of his efforts to change Washington, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Omaha World-Herald: “Nelson, who once enjoyed some of the highest job performance marks in the U.S. Senate, has now seen his approval rating dip below 50 percent in Nebraska, according to The World-Herald Poll.”

PoliticsDaily.com: “Lincoln’s vulnerability is tied in part to the health care debate in Washington and has made her a somewhat shaky member of the 60 senators the Democrats need to get overhaul legislation passed.”

James Simpson writes at the American Thinker: “Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats with no apparent concern for their plummeting poll numbers . . . But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago, “What do they know that we don’t?” We may have found out. It’s called universal voter registration . . . Fund describes the proposal as follows . . . ”

Christian Post: “Despite what many might believe, a vast majority of home-schooled children say they have plenty of opportunities for socialization with other children and, as adults, come to excel in all measured areas of adult life, according to a new study. The study, released this month by the Canadian Centre for Home Education (CCHE), surveyed young adults in Canada whose parents responded to a 1994 study on home education. Ranging in age from 15 to 34, the study’s participants answered questions on a variety of topics with comparable data from Statistics Canada.”

Politico: “A new poll suggests that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) seriously endangered his political prospects by becoming the decisive 60th vote allowing health care legislation to pass through the Senate.”

LifeNews: “Should pro-life Republican Governor Dave Heineman challenge Nelson for his Senate seat, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows he would get 61% of the vote while Nelson would get just 30%.”

The Christian Institute: “More than 12 million people are planning to go to church this Christmas, a rise of 2 million from last year, research from the Bible Society suggests. The survey of 1,005 people also found 31 per cent said they would watch or listen to a Christmas service on TV or radio, compared to 26 per cent last year.”

Echo Press: “Only about 1 percent of Minnesotans think that abortion is the single most important problem facing the state year after year, according to a statewide St. Cloud State University Survey released Friday.”

The Bulletin: “In Pew Internet’s 2004 survey of teens, 18 percent of 12-year-olds owned a cell phone. In 2009, 58 percent of 12 year-olds own a cell phone. We also have found that cell phone ownership increases dramatically with age: 83 percent of teens age 17 now own a cell phone, up from 64 percent in 2004.”

CNSNews citing a Zogby Poll: “More than 80 percent of Americans agree that Congress drafts lengthy, complex bills to hide spending on special interests and to prevent constituents from understanding what’s in them before a vote is taken, according to a new survey.”

Washington Times: “Mississippi is the America’s most religious state, according to a Pew Forum study on the levels of devotion in America, which asked respondents whether religion is important in their lives. Eighty-two percent of Mississipians said yes.”

Angus Reid: “People in the United States are almost evenly divided on whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in their country, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 43 per cent of respondents favour allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 46 per cent are opposed.”

Washington Times: “President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won’t be on the midterm ballot next year, but their former Senate seats will be, and both races are now either tossups or leaning Republican in high-visibility contests.”

Ross Douthat writing at his NYT blog: “Here’s the glass half-full take on the National Marriage Project’s annual ‘State of Our Unions’ report, which tackles the Great Recession’s impact on American wedlock. As it turns out, the strain of the downturn hasn’t pushed the divorce rate higher; instead, economic stress seems to have made American marriages slightly more stable overall, as couples develop a ‘new appreciation for the economic and social support that marriage can provide in tough times,’ as the study’s lead author, Brad Wilcox, puts it.”

Rasmussen: “Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.”

NY Magazine: “According to a Gallup poll from July, 60 percent of Americans think abortion should be either illegal or ‘legal only in a few circumstances.’ Only seventeen states pay for the procedure for poor women beyond the standards of the 1977 Hyde Amendment—meaning if the woman’s life is in danger or she’s been the victim of rape or incest. Just two months before the health-care bill’s passage in the House, a Rasmussen poll found that 48 percent of the public didn’t want abortion covered in any government-subsidized health plan, while just 13 percent did. (Thirty-two percent believed in a ‘neutral’ approach—though what on Earth that means is hard to say.)”

Reuters: “The Quinnipiac University survey found 49 percent of voters oppose a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, while 46 percent support such legislation, reversing an April poll that found 49 percent supported it and 43 percent opposed it.”

Pew Research Center for People and the Press: “While most Americans oppose government funding of abortion, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that concern about abortion funding plays only a small role in driving opposition to the health care reform legislation under consideration by Congress. When health care opponents are asked in an open-ended question to describe their main reason for opposing the congressional proposals, just 3% raise the issue of abortion funding.”

NJ.com: “The poll, conducted between Nov. 6 and 10, found 46 percent of adult residents want to extend the right to gay couples while 42 percent oppose it. Still undecided were 12 percent of respondents.”

CNN: “A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that 61 percent of the public opposes using public money for abortions for women who can not afford the procedure, with 37 percent in favor of allowing the use of federal funds.”

Virginia Family Foundation: “The survey results found broad support among Democrats, Republicans and Independents for tax-credit scholarship programs and school vouchers. Democrats indicate support for tax-credit scholarships (64%) and school vouchers (53%). They are more likely to favor rather than oppose these policies by +43 percentage points and +15 percentage points, respectively.”

Nathaniel Persily writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: “The trajectories of opinion in this category of issues do not seem to be following a consistent pattern, and it is interesting to speculate why. I will focus in this post on gun rights, abortion, and same sex marriage.”

San Luis Obispo Tribune: “A small majority of California voters supports the right of gay couples to marry, but a much larger portion of voters opposes efforts to place the issue back on the ballot in 2010, a new Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll has found.”

Michael Foust writing at Townhall (Baptist Press): “According to the Public Policy Polling survey of 1,130 likely voters Oct. 16-19, 48 percent of Mainers say they will vote yes on Question 1, 48 percent would vote no and 5 percent are undecided. The survey is good news for Question 1 supporters, who were outraised 2-to-1 through September and trailed by 9 points in a poll conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 7. Both surveys used identical polling language — the same language that will be found on the Nov. 3 ballot.”

WorldNetDaily: “A survey launched by university faculty members in Texas is raising alarms over its suggestion that there should be additional laws ‘that would affect members of the Christian Right.’”

Times Record News: “If researchers want to uncover the roots of America’s bitter divisions on abortion, the first thing they should do is ask millions of citizens this question: How often do you attend worship services? This has been a consistent pattern in recent surveys and it can be seen in most pews, from conservative evangelicals to liberal mainline Protestants, said Greg Smith, senior researcher at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The pattern is especially clear among American Catholics.”