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A 2025 CBS News poll found that 54% of Americans said the government is stopping and detaining more people than necessary.
November 23, 2025 high temporal
Public opinion measurement regarding government detention practices.
A 2025 Pew Research Center national survey of 5,022 U.S. adults (fielded Feb. 5–June 18, 2025) found that 84% of U.S. adults said they ever use YouTube and 71% said they use Facebook.
November 20, 2025 high temporal
National survey measuring platform usage among U.S. adults.
A 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that when respondents were asked whom they would vote for in the 2026 midterm elections if held at the time of the survey, Democratic candidates led Republican candidates by 14 percentage points.
November 19, 2025 high statistical
National poll measuring voter preferences for the upcoming midterm elections.
A 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that respondents reported little to no confidence in major U.S. institutions including Congress, the media, political parties, the Supreme Court, and the presidency.
November 19, 2025 high statistical
Public confidence levels in key national institutions as measured by a national poll.
A 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that President Donald Trump’s approval rating reached a new low 10 months into his second term.
November 19, 2025 high statistical
National public approval rating measured by a 2025 poll.
A Fox News survey conducted November 14–17, 2025 found 50% of registered voters said artificial intelligence is a good thing for day-to-day life, 37% said AI is a good thing for mental health, and 37% said AI is a good thing for society in general.
November 17, 2025 high statistical
Public opinion measurements of perceived benefits of AI across different domains.
A November 2025 Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 33% of U.S. adults approved of the way President Donald Trump was managing the federal government, down from 43% in a March 2025 AP-NORC poll.
November 12, 2025 high statistical
Public opinion poll measuring approval of presidential management of the federal government.
A 2025 Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters in the New York City mayoral race found Zohran Mamdani with 46% support, Andrew Cuomo with 33% support, and Curtis Sliwa with 15% support.
October 16, 2025 high temporal
Poll results for the 2025 New York City mayoral race as reported in news coverage.
The 2025 Pew Research Center National Survey of Latinos was a nationally representative bilingual survey of 4,923 U.S. Latino adults conducted Oct. 6-16, 2025.
October 16, 2025 high temporal
Survey sample and field dates for Pew Research Center's National Survey of Latinos.
The primary 2025 Pew Research Center National Survey of Latinos was conducted Oct. 6–16, 2025 among 8,046 U.S. adults and included 4,923 Hispanic respondents, including 1,125 American Trends Panel members and 3,798 SSRS Opinion Panel members.
October 16, 2025 high methodological
Sample size and panel composition for the primary National Survey of Latinos in 2025.
In 2025, Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults about Latino attitudes were conducted in English and Spanish, recruited respondents via national random sampling of residential addresses, conducted interviews either online or by telephone with a live interviewer, and weighted results to be representative by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and presidential vote.
October 16, 2025 high methodological
Key methodological features describing how the 2025 Pew Research Center surveys relevant to Latino attitudes were carried out.
A 2025 KFF poll found that 59% of U.S. adults disapproved of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, with disapproval concentrated among Democrats and Independents.
October 09, 2025 high temporal
National public-opinion polling on approval of a federal health official.
A 2025 KFF poll found a partisan split in beliefs about President Trump's statements on acetaminophen (Tylenol): 59% of Democrats said the statements were "definitely false," while 56% of Republicans said the statements were either "definitely true" or "probably true."
October 09, 2025 high temporal
Polling on public beliefs about health-related claims made by a political leader.
A 2025 KFF analysis reported a 24% decline in Democrats' trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine information between 2023 and 2025.
October 09, 2025 high temporal
Measured change over a two-year period in partisan trust toward federal public-health agency vaccine information.
A 2025 KFF poll found that more than eight in ten Democrats reported trusting professional medical organizations such as the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics for health information, while about half of Republicans reported trusting those organizations.
October 09, 2025 high temporal
Partisan differences in trust toward professional medical organizations as sources of health information.
The Quinnipiac University poll conducted Oct. 3–7, 2025 reported Zohran Mamdani's subgroup support as 60% of Democrats, 67% of Asian American voters, 62% of voters aged 18–34, and 60% of voters aged 35–49.
October 07, 2025 high temporal
Subgroup support percentages from the Oct. 3–7, 2025 Quinnipiac University poll.
High-quality polling of Muslim and Arab Americans is rare because small sample sizes often make it difficult to produce reliable estimates for those groups.
October 06, 2025 high methodological
Limitations in survey research affecting representation and reliability for smaller demographic groups.
A Pew Research Center survey conducted Sept. 22–28, 2025 included 3,445 U.S. adult respondents, including 629 Hispanic respondents, and all respondents in that survey were members of the American Trends Panel.
September 28, 2025 high methodological
Details for the secondary Pew Research Center survey cited alongside the National Survey of Latinos in 2025.
In 2025, 71% of U.S. adults said relations with Germany were very or somewhat good, representing a 13 percentage-point decline from 2024, and 24% of U.S. adults said relations with Germany were bad.
September 26, 2025 high temporal
Findings from joint 2025 public opinion surveys of U.S. and German adults about bilateral relations.
In 2025, 46% of German adults named France as Germany's most important foreign policy partner while 26% named the United States; in the same 2025 surveys, 19% of Americans named the United Kingdom as the United States' most important partner and 1% of Americans named Germany.
September 26, 2025 high temporal
Survey respondents in the 2025 Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung joint surveys named the countries they view as their country's most important foreign policy partner.
In 2025, U.S. adults generally viewed China and Russia as major military threats to the United States, while German adults generally viewed Russia but not China as a major security threat; both U.S. and German publics perceived China as an economic threat and expressed concern about China's growing influence.
September 26, 2025 high temporal
Perceptions of military and economic threats reported in the 2025 joint public opinion surveys of the United States and Germany.
A 2025 Gallup annual tracking poll found American sympathy for Israelis fell below 50% for the first time in almost 25 years of Gallup's tracking.
January 01, 2025 high temporal
Gallup's multi-decade tracking of U.S. sympathy toward Israelis.
A 2025 Gallup poll found about one-third of U.S. adults said they sympathized more with the Palestinians.
January 01, 2025 high temporal
Gallup polling measuring relative sympathy toward Palestinians among U.S. adults.
The American Jewish Committee's annual survey of Jewish Americans conducted in October–November 2024 found that about 7 in 10 respondents said they felt Jews in the United States were less secure than a year earlier.
November 01, 2024 high temporal
Annual survey measuring Jewish Americans' perceptions of safety and security.
Public attitudes toward nuclear power in the United States have softened in recent years, and nuclear energy has attracted political support from members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
January 01, 2020 high temporal
Shifts in public and political sentiment toward nuclear energy policy.