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Support for a Third Political Party in the U.S. Dips to 58%. Sixty-nine percent of political independents, 53% of Democrats, 48% of Republicans favor creation of a third party. Social & Policy Issues. Sep 30, 2024.
The government edges out the high cost of living or inflation (16%) and outpaces the economy in general (12%). Further down the list, immigration, unifying the country, COVID-19, race relations and crime each average 4% to 6% of mentions in 2022. The data show significant differences in partisans’ views of the nation’s top three problems.
These are crime and violence (53%), hunger and homelessness (52%), the economy (52%), the availability and affordability of healthcare (51%), and federal spending and the budget deficit (51%). Another four issues are highly concerning to less than half but at least four in 10 Americans: illegal immigration (48%), drug use (45%), the Social ...
The latest results are based on a Feb. 1-20 Gallup survey. Immigration has ranked ahead of all other issues as the most important problem before, having last done so five years ago when there was a surge of attempted border crossings by Central American migrants. Immigration also ranked as the No. 1 problem in July and November 2018 and July 2014.
Annual trend from 2001 to 2021 in Americans' self-described position on social issues as either conservative, moderate or liberal. The percentage conservative has fallen from 36% in 2001 to 30% today while the percentage liberal has increased from 24% to 34%. The percentage moderate has changed less, registering 38% in 2001 and 35% today.
Gallup’s May 1-23 Values and Beliefs survey finds that Americans are currently about equally likely to say their views are conservative (32%), moderate (32%) or liberal (33%) on social issues. Though annual figures have fluctuated, the ideological parity in the latest measure is also reflected in a five-year average of figures from 2020 to 2024.
The Impact of Shifts in American Culture. by Frank Newport. The eminent French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote more than a hundred years ago about the consequences of anomie in society, a term usually defined as normlessness, or a situation in which societies and social groupings lack agreement on norms of behavior, resulting in a breakdown ...
Story Highlights. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More Americans this year (38%) say they are very conservative or conservative on social issues than said so in 2022 (33%) and 2021 (30%). At the same time, the percentage saying their social views are very liberal or liberal has dipped to 29% from 34% in each of the past two years, while the portion ...
Currently, 12% of Americans think moral values are getting better, which is the lowest percentage since 2008. Pessimism about moral values edged up in the past year across party groups. Republicans’ outlook for deteriorating values is now at a new high of 97%, while 73% of Democrats and 80% of independents think they are getting worse.
This leaves a challenge for social and political leaders -- translating the widely existing attitudinal sentiment about the need for change in the nation's racial structure into support for specific programs that have the highest probability of actually bringing about real change. Americans Favor Police Reform, but Not Dramatic Restructuring