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About 25 years ago, I had the privilege to sit down to interview the late George Gallup, Jr., the esteemed pollster whose father founded Gallup Polls. One of the things Gallup, Jr. said that I’ve never forgotten was his response to my question: Is America pro-abortion rights or pro-life? He said 20% of Americans are strongly pro-choice. 20% are strongly pro-life. And the other 60% are in the “mushy middle,” and they can go either way depending upon what you ask and how you ask. I imagine that is still roughly the case.

Americans’ confidence in the economy ticked up this month, despite the majority saying the country’s financial state is “getting worse,” according to a Gallup poll released Friday. Respondents who said the economy is “getting better” shot up by 7 percentage points to 31 percent. Still, the majority of poll respondents, 63 percent, said the economy is getting “worse.” Despite some respondents stating the economy is improving, their outlook on the current economic conditions remained the same, the survey found. Nearly half of Americans, 45 percent, said the current economic conditions were “poor.” About 31 percent said they were “only fair,”...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans’ views of the effects of marijuana have worsened over the past two years, as slim majorities now say it negatively impacts both society as a whole (54%) and most people who use it (51%). This contrasts with Gallup’s findings from 2022, when the public was about evenly divided in its assessments of marijuana’s effect on society and more likely to say the effect on most users was positive (53%) rather than negative (45%).

The U.S. viewing audience for the 2024 Paris Games is poised to be the smallest for any prior Summer Olympics Gallup has measured. Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults plan to watch a great deal (10%) or fair amount (25%) of the games, which is down from 48% measured for the 2016 Olympics and figures just shy of 60% from 2000 to 2012. Gallup has measured viewing intentions for each Summer Olympics since 2000, except for the 2020 Olympic Games that were delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the 35% who plan to watch at least...

Gallup released the results of the annual poll on abortion. It found that 54 percent of Americans identify as “pro-choice.” That is an increase of two percentage points since last year’s Gallup poll. This poll also found that a record 32 percent of U.S. voters would vote only for a candidate who shares their views on abortion. In their analysis, Gallup indicates that these trends helped Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and anticipates that they will be beneficial to Democrats running for office in 2024. Overall, there is much less here than meets the eye. First, Gallup found a...

Let’s start with his polling. Gallup on Friday averaged other polling that has shown just how unpopular the president is. Biden has dropped to a 68-year presidential low, 38.7% approval. That is nearly 10 points below where former President Jimmy Carter was at this point in his presidency, and we remember what happened in his reelection bid.

A majority of Americans now disapprove of Israel’s war against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, with support dropping from 50 percent in November to 36 percent this month, according to a new Gallup poll. The number who disapprove increased from 45 percent in November to 55 percent in March. About 9 percent of respondents in the latest Gallup poll have no opinion on the issue. But approval of Israel’s war is divided along party lines, with 64 percent of Republicans supporting the military action in Gaza, compared to just 18 percent of Democrats. Still, both Democrats and the GOP...

I have a very difficult time believing that this is actually true, mainly because it seems to contradict evolutionary theory. But, according to a Gallup poll, over 22% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+, and the overall proportion of all adults who do so has more than doubled since 2012. This seems implausible to me, although I do not doubt Gallup's numbers themselves. Almost a quarter of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+ https://t.co/hDaW7DlBZq— Axios (@axios) March 13, 2024Axios' analysis of the poll is, as is always the case with Axios, short and to the point. 7.6% of adults...

Americans’ satisfaction with the nation’s global image under President Joe Biden is at its lowest mark (33 percent) since 2017, a Gallup poll found on Monday. In contrast, 53 percent were satisfied with the position of the U.S. in the world under former President Donald Trump in February 2020. Gallup tracked the question of America’s global image since 2000. The current mark of 33 percent is lower than previous years under Biden’s leadership. Thirty-seven percent were satisfied with the United States’ global image in Biden’s previous three years, still far below Trump’s 2020 record, according to the poll: The last...

The latest Gallup poll shows that the economy and immigration have dragged His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s job approval rating down to 38 percent. Biden’s disapproval rating is 59 percent. Among Democrats, Biden earns an 82 percent approval rating, which is okay but not great and nowhere near the expected 90+ percent range. Only 32 percent of Independents approve of the job Biden’s doing. This number was in the fifties during Biden’s first year in office. His disapproval number with this group is 62 percent. In the previous Gallup poll measuring Biden’s monthly job approval, Biden sat at 41 percent approval....

Several key indicators of the 2024 election environment indicate that President Joe Biden faces an uphill climb to win a second term. His job approval rating, Americans’ satisfaction with how things are going in the country and their confidence in the economy are below the levels associated with successful reelection bids in recent elections.While Democrats hold a slight edge in national party identification and partisan leanings, that advantage is smaller than what it has been in past presidential elections won by Democratic incumbents.In less direct measures of the electoral environment, Americans are more inclined to say that they are worse...

President Biden's approval rating among Democrats has plummeted to a record low of 75% — down a staggering 11 percentage points over just the last month, according to a new Gallup poll conducted between Oct. 2 and Oct. 23. Why it matters: Biden is at risk of alienating members of his own party with his unequivocal support for Israel, which has carried out a weeks-long bombardment and total siege of Gaza in response to Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. An annual Gallup poll conducted in February found that Democrats sympathized more with Palestinians than Israelis for the first time in...

While most politicians, media outlets, talking heads, and political pundits eagerly jump all over the latest poll results about whatever or whomever, most polls are simply snapshots in time (popularity contests, as it were), while some polls lay bare deep-seated trends, good or bad, depending on one's views. The results of a new poll from Gallup reveal a perfect example of the latter.After more than 32 months of Joe Biden's presidency — arguably the worst presidency in at least modern history — likely voters across the board continue to reject Biden's policies, and the objectives of a Democrat Party that...

Americans’ views of the economy worsened in September, according to recent data from Gallup. The survey giant found that only 20 percent of U.S. adults say economic conditions are “excellent” or “good.” Thirty-two percent said they are “only fair” and 48 percent say they are “poor.” Last month, 23 percent of respondents called economic conditions “excellent” or “good.” Thirty-five percent said they were “only fair” and 42 percent said they were “poor” at the time. Americans’ outlook for the economy also soured, according to the latest data, with 73 percent saying “economic conditions in the country as a whole” are...

Three in 10 Americans believe the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening, while more than one in four worry about being infected, according to a new Gallup poll. The new poll, published Thursday, found that 30 percent of respondents said the ongoing pandemic is worsening, while 41 percent think its getting better and 30 percent said it has stayed the same. That marks a 25 percent increase from a similar poll published in May, where 5 percent of respondents said they believe the pandemic is getting worse. Along political party lines, 44 percent of Democrat respondents believe the ongoing pandemic is getting...

Church attendance in the United States is lower than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, a new survey indicated. In the new Gallup survey, 31 percent of respondents said they have attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the last seven days. In Gallup polls conducted from 2020 to the most recent May 1-24, 2023 poll, an average of 30 percent of respondents said they had attended services in the last week. These data represent a modest decline of an average of four points since the four-year period before the pandemic, when an average of 34 percent of respondents said...

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision discovered the “right” to same-sex marriage in the U.S. Constitution, teachers unions and LGBT activists have rushed to normalize homosexual unions, and homosexuality in general, in the eyes of children.

The American public is increasingly rejecting the LGBTQ agenda, as a series of new polls show a growing majority of Americans agree that attempting to change your gender is “morally wrong,” that only two genders exist, and that women should not be forced to compete against men in sports.

I’ll first repeat the question in the headline: Are the results of a recent Gallup survey showing the biggest swing to social conservatism in nearly a decade shocking, inevitable, or somewhere in the middle?Whatever one calls it, it’s a major development — particularly with the 2024 election looming ever closer.Before we dig into the details of the survey, let’s revisit a football field metaphor I’ve long used to illustrate the U.S. political landscape. The largest portion of the field — say, between the 30-yard lines, for illustrative purposes — is comprised of decent, reasonable people, regardless of political affiliation. The...

A new poll found that Americans believe that the average family needs to make a minimum of $85,000 annually to get by, a major increase from just a decade ago. The Gallup poll shows about a 46 percent increase in the perceived average income a family of four needs compared to 2013, when American put the figure at $58,000 annually. “The rise in perceived necessary income to support a family of four highlights the economic pressure facing American households as high inflation stretches into a second year,” the poll results read. About 31 percent of respondents said that the minimum...