Polls and Survey's

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Many Democrats don’t think they’ll see a woman become president, AP-NORC poll finds

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats are harboring strong feelings of stress and gloom as the new year begins. And many are questioning whether their party’s commitment to diverse candidates — especially women — may lead to further political struggles in the Donald Trump era.

https://apnews.com/article/democrats-woman-president-ap-poll-mood-stress-a3a281478c9690b2e5444b988101b880?

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Few US adults confident Justice Department and FBI will act fairly under Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, prepares for questioning from senators on Wednesday, only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” confident that the Department of Justice will act in a fair and nonpartisan manner during his second term, a poll finds.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-cabinet-hegseth-patel-bondi-gabbard-kennedy-0f6856a163b1e8eab517e80df28580a8?

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Border security is popular – but that may be the limit of US immigration consensus: AP-NORC poll

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many U.S. adults are on board with the idea of beefing up security at the southern border and undertaking some targeted deportations, according to a new poll. But as President Donald Trump begins his second term with a series of sweeping executive orders on immigration, the findings suggest his actions may quickly push the country beyond the limited consensus that exists on the issue.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-poll-deportation-trump-border-security-40b2a28e34f8d0c76b4a6589f3db1ba3?

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Majority of Americans have unfavorable view of Musk, DOGE: AP-NORC poll

About half of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Elon Musk, and an even larger share disapprove of President Trump relying on advice from billionaires to shape government policy, per new AP-NORC poll data.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/musk-doge-trump-billionaires-disapprove-poll?

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Where US adults think the government is spending too much, according to AP-NORC polling

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many U.S. adults believe the federal government is overspending — but polling also shows that many Americans, including Republicans, think the country is spending too little on major government programs such as Social Security.

https://apnews.com/article/ap-poll-government-spending-social-security-medicare-8a8ddb0e721355a4e9585da4147efe1a?

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Most Americans who experienced severe winter weather see climate change at work, AP-NORC poll shows

WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Ries has lived in Florida only three years, but everyone told him last summer was unusually hot. That was followed by three hurricanes in close succession. Then temperatures dropped below freezing for days this winter, and snow blanketed part of the state.

https://apnews.com/article/poll-extreme-cold-climate-change-4899de252a4107ee529e2f134fb68f59?

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More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — While most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden, a new poll shows.

https://apnews.com/article/poll-trump-ukraine-russia-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-dcf75bb3a387b84f65803e1a75ad9e97?

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Most Americans expect higher prices as a result of Trump's tariffs, a new AP-NORC poll finds

Americans’ trust in President Donald Trump to bolster the U.S. economy appears to be faltering, with a new poll showing that many people fear the country is being steered into a recession and that the president’s broad and haphazardly enforced tariffs will cause prices to rise. Read More.

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Americans see more overreach from the president than from judges, an AP-NORC poll finds

As President Donald Trump faces significant pushback from federal judges, a new poll shows U.S. adults are more likely to believe the president is the one overstepping his power rather than the courts — although Republicans largely think the opposite. Read More.

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Most Americans disapprove of Trump's treatment of colleges, a new AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll shows a majority of U.S. adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of issues related to colleges and universities, as his Republican administration ramps up threats to cut federal funding unless schools comply with his political agenda. Read More.

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Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll conducted earlier this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only about one-third of Democrats are “very optimistic” or even “somewhat optimistic” about their party’s future. That’s down sharply from July 2024, when about 6 in 10 Democrats said they had a positive outlook. Read More.

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Americans are divided over DEI programs on college campuses, an AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll, conducted earlier this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found about 4 in 10 Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” favor DEI programs in colleges and universities, while about 3 in 10 oppose those initiatives and about 3 in 10 are neutral. Support is higher for courses on racism and scholarships for students of color. Read More.

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What US adults think about Pope Leo XIV, according to a new AP-NORC poll

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church, a new poll shows that American Catholics are feeling excited about their new religious leader.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-xiv-american-catholics-e070cbc48bd415384b7d7302ceeff3fb?

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Americans want Medicaid and food stamps funding maintained or increased, AP-NORC poll shows

As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a new survey shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs the GOP has focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps. Read More.

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Majority of US adults support religious chaplains in public schools, a new AP-NORC poll shows Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors allowing religious chaplains to provide support services for public school students, a new poll finds. The survey shows the complexity of Americans’ attitudes toward religious expression in schools, which varies depending on the kind of expression and sometimes crosses partisan lines. Read more.

Why this matters: About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say that religious chaplains should be allowed to provide support services for students in public schools, but most do not think teacher-led prayer or a mandatory period during school hours for private prayer should be allowed in public schools.   Americans are more likely to oppose allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools than to favor this. About 4 in 10 are opposed, while roughly one-quarter are in favor and about one-third are neither in favor nor opposed.

RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Top US universities raced to become global campuses. Under Trump, it's becoming a liability   HBCUs depend on federal funding. Their leaders are walking a tightrope on Trump’s DEI attacks

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US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, AP-NORC poll finds

A new AP-NORC poll finds most Americans do not want the government to focus on increasing birth rates, despite efforts by the Trump administration to make this a priority. Instead, people want the government to focus on reducing child care costs and improving maternal health. Read More.

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Most teens — and girls especially — see college as key to jobs and life skills, AP-NORC poll says

Most American teenagers say it is important to them to graduate from college, with girls especially describing it as a key step for accomplishing their life goals, according to a new poll. Read More.

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Most US adults think the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor, AP-NORC poll finds Republican officials are promoting their recently passed tax and spending bill as a win for working Americans, but a new survey shows that Americans broadly see it as a win for the wealthy. About two-thirds of U.S. adults expect the new tax law will help the rich, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Most — about 6 in 10 — think it will do more to hurt than help low-income people. Read more.

What to know: Most people have heard at least something about the new law, according to the poll, which found that about two-thirds of U.S. adults have heard or read “a lot” or “some” about it. Those who know something about the legislation are more likely to believe it favors the wealthy, compared with people who have heard “only a little” or “nothing at all.”   Even many Republicans agree that the wealthy are likely to benefit from the tax and spending law. About half say the law will do more to help the wealthy. A similar percentage say this about middle-class people, while about 4 in 10 Republicans think it will do more to help than hurt low-income people.   Just 38% of Americans approve of how Donald Trump is handling government spending, compared with 46% in an AP-NORC poll conducted in March. Republicans are less likely to say the government is spending “too much” than they were in March 2023, when Joe Biden was president, but about 6 in 10 still think the government is overspending. A similar share of Democrats say the same thing.

RELATED COVERAGE ➤ With gavel in hand, Trump chisels away at the power of a compliant Congress   Photos of ‘Good Trouble’ protests across the US, from Chicago to Mar-a-Lago   Less selection, higher prices: How tariffs are shaping the holiday shopping season

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Tracking approval and key issues: The latest AP-NORC polls

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research is a collaboration between AP and NORC at the University of Chicago. Since its founding in 2011, this partnership has produced hundreds of polls on timely issues. Topline questionnaires can be found at the AP-NORC Center's website.

https://apnews.com/projects/polling-tracker/?

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

One day in late May 2024, lawyer Zina Bash spent 6 1/2 hours working on a case against Facebook parent company Meta on behalf of the state of Texas. She reviewed draft legal filings. She participated in a court-ordered mediation session and then discussed the outcome with state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases?

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith grew up in a community that was deeply involved in the fight for Indigenous rights, protesting broken treaties and other mistreatment of Native American people. Members of the movement, she said, understood that law enforcement agencies were surveilling their activities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/thacker-pass-lithium-mine-nevada-indigenous?

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.

Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate, as well as internal concern among top officials as more than 1 million acres burn across 10 states.

https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season?

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How US adults feel about legal abortion 3 years after Roe was overturned, according to AP-NORC polling

Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling. Read More.

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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in the Trump administration’s deportation plans.

https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration?

Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems

Microsoft says it has stopped using China-based engineers to support Defense Department cloud computing systems after ProPublica revealed the practice in an investigation this week.

https://www.propublica.org/article/defense-department-pentagon-microsoft-digital-escort-china?

ProPublica Updates Supreme Connections Database With Newly Released Financial Disclosures

We updated our Supreme Connections database with newly released financial disclosures from eight Supreme Court justices on Friday, covering the 2024 calendar year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-2024-filings?

How views of the Supreme Court have changed since 2022 abortion ruling, according to AP-NORC polling

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ views of the Supreme Court have moderated somewhat since the court’s standing dropped sharply after its ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to a new poll. But concern that the court has too much power is rising, fueled largely by Democrats.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-poll-trump-conservative-justices-abortion-dc4ef3a6adaee2ee9cc32d22dce0a74e?

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Americans’ views on racial discrimination have shifted substantially in the past four years, AP-NORC polling shows

Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to an AP-NORC poll. That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Read More.

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The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds

About half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a “major” source of stress in their life right now, while 33% say it’s a “minor” source of stress, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only 14% say it’s not a source of stress, underscoring the pervasive anxiety most Americans continue to feel about the cost of everyday essentials. Read More.

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More Americans say Israel has ‘gone too far’ in the Gaza conflict, according to new AP-NORC polling

At a moment of growing international alarm about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, more U.S. adults view Israel’s military action in the Palestinian territory as excessive than at the beginning of the war, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Read more.