Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
At the center of the Pew Research Center’s mission is a commitment to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in attitudes between demographic and political groups. An individual’s age is one of the most common predictors of differences in attitudes and behaviors. On issues ranging from foreign affairs to social policy, age […]
Survey Report For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while 46% say it is more important to control gun ownership. Support for […]
These questions are discussed in Section 4 of the report. Control gun ownership Protect gun rights TOTAL Total % 48 Only law enforcement able to own % 12 Most able to own with limits % 35 Total % 49 Some restrictions % 38 No restrictions % 11 (N)3341 PARTY WITH LEANERS Rep/Rep lean 25 6 19 […]
The Affordable Care Act has been one of the most divisive issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. The new typology finds nearly universal opposition to the law on the right. By contrast, support for the law on the left is not nearly as widespread or intense. Overall, more disapprove (53%) than approve (41%) of the health […]
The nation’s increasing ideological polarization makes political compromise more difficult, in part because those at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum see less benefit in meeting the other side halfway. A logical point of compromise for most Americans is splitting things down the middle. But a significant minority – and a substantial share of the active […]