Public Opinion Strategies

The results of our latest national survey of 800 likely 2012 voters point to eleven percent (11%) of likely voters owning a Twitter account.  And only four percent (4%) say they have accessed their Twitter the day before.
So, who are these voters with a Twitter account? Read more

A younger group: 80% are 18-44 year olds
Slightly more female [...] Read more

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U.S. Voters’ favorable rating of the UN holds steady at 59%
The United Nations Foundation and its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, released today the results of public opinion research showing strong, continued support for the United Nations. Americans’ 59% favorable rating of the United Nations indicates that the UN’s response to humanitarian issues, [...] Read more

Public Opinion Strategies conducted a survey in 13 states with competitive U.S. Senate races (as defined by The Cook Report). The survey was conducted among 1,300 likely voters on August 2-5, 2010. The survey has a margin of error of +2.72% in 95 out of 100 cases. The states surveyed were Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, [...] Read more

In a survey released yesterday by Public Opinion Strategies, a solid majority (59%) of basketball fans oppose expanding the NCAA tournament from a 64 team tournament to a 96 team tournament.  Just 29% of college basketball fans support expansion and ten percent are undecided. 
The survey was conducted April 11-13 among 800 likely 2010 voters and [...] Read more

May 19, 2009, Alexandria, VA – In a recent national survey of voters, Public Opinion Strategies found that fully 69% of Americans support the use of “red-light cameras” at the most dangerous intersections in their states, while just 29% oppose them. Read more

Those voters “strongly” supporting red-light cameras outnumber those who strongly oppose them by a wide 45%-18% margin. Read more

Using our recent national survey, as well as other public polls, we recently put together an in-depth look at the standing of President Obama, the Congress, and the Republican Party. Read more

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Public Opinion Strategies completed a national survey of 800 likely 2010 voters (April 19-21, 2009) where we asked a few demographic questions about cell phones and networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.  As you would suspect only a small percentage (13%) of voters do not have a working cell phone and one-third of likely [...] Read more

(The article was co-authored by Matthew Jason.)
All politics aside, Americans still view President Obama, the man, very positively. On our recently completed Public Opinion Strategies “100 Day National Survey,”  an amazing seventy-nine percent (79%) of the voters we talked to told us they like President Obama as a person. However, a more specific question about [...] Read more

Public Opinion Strategies just completed a national survey of voters, drilling down on attitudes both toward Barack Obama and toward the Republican Party.
Along with key measures of attitudes toward the President, the Congress, and the Republican Party, the survey takes an in-depth look at attitudes towards Obama’s economic policies, concerns about his Presidency, his ideology, [...] Read more