The new Manhattan District Attorney in New York City announced he will not seek prison sentences for many crimes, and he will punish many felony cases as misdemeanors. By a 2.7-to-1 margin, a new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that likely voters expect this policy to...
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds fewer voters trust the FBI, and most voters believe the agency is acting as President Joe Biden’s “personal Gestapo.” Forty-six percent of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of the FBI,...
A new poll by the Trafalgar Group of 1,076 likely general election voters from December 17th to the 21st shows that large numbers of likely Democrat, Republican, and independent voters find strict gun laws ineffective or even harmful. While a plurality thinks that gun...
A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows that Americans oppose stricter gun control laws by a 49% to 45% margin. As we have pointed out with a new Gallup poll, the partisan divide on this issue has never been so large. With Gallup, 91% of Democrats and 24% of...
A new Rasmussen Report Survey finds that about 43% of households for likely US voters own guns. What is most interesting is that the household gun ownership rates for blacks (40%), other minorities (40%), Democrats (38%), even those who strongly approve of Biden...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that by a 66% to 28% margin likely voters believe that mail-in voting will lead to more vote fraud. Over 50% of whites, blacks, and others and all income groups believe that. Democrats, those who approve of Biden, and...
Recent surveys by Pew Research Center and Gallup have a couple of interesting findings. Americans are equally divided on whether more gun ownership leads to more or less crime or has no effect. -- The drop in support for gun control has been driven largely by changes...
In July 2021, A Gallup poll showed that only 1% of Americans named guns/gun control the most important problem facing the country. Nor is that any unusual polling result. By contrast, 4% of Americans viewed crime/violence as the most important problem. Even the...
A new poll by Rasmussen Reports finds a great deal of agreement across races and sexes regarding crime and law enforcement. Blacks are only slightly more concerned about the recent increase in violent crime than whites, though Hispanics are more concerned. Blacks are...
A new Rasmussen Report survey shows that 47 percent of American households own a gun, with 5 percent either not sure/refusing to answer the question. Assuming that 47 percent of those who aren't sure or refusing to answer whether they own a gun actually do, half of...
You would never know if from the media, but over the last five years black satisfaction with their local police departments has soared from 50% being at least somewhat satisfied in 2015 to 72% now. The rate for other minorities has also gone up slightly from 65% to...
With teachers and staff carrying concealed handguns in certain school districts within 18 states, much of the country has gotten used to the idea. In the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting, a couple of surveys have been done on Americans' views on...