By a wide margin, Americans say football – not baseball – is ‘America’s sport’
More than half of Americans (53%) say America’s sport is football – about twice the share who say it’s baseball (27%).
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More than half of Americans (53%) say America’s sport is football – about twice the share who say it’s baseball (27%).
With Election Day approaching, here’s a closer look at voter attitudes on violent crime and an analysis of the nation’s violent crime rate.
Despite the growth of commercial sports betting, the most common way that Americans bet on sports is with friends or family.
Around two-thirds of Black Democrats (66%) say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth.
In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.
52% of Republicans say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in K-12 public school principals to act in the public’s best interests.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
A narrow majority of Americans continue to say labor unions have a positive effect on the way things are going in the United States.
Unvaccinated Americans are less likely to be concerned about health effects of COVID-19 and to wear masks in businesses all or most of the time.
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
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