America Thinks

What voters already believe, from the country's best surveys, so you write to where opinion actually stands.

Every message rests on a guess about what voters already believe. America Thinks replaces the guess with the record: the General Social Survey, ANES and CES beside public polls, official results, the census, turnout, voting-age and enrollment records.

Browse the questions

• Each row is one question, its headline after the dash. Questions you haven't opened read bold.
• Pick a topic under Index in the sidebar, or a single source under Data.
• Search from the box at the top of the sidebar, or click the toolbar's empty space.

Read a question

Click a question to open it beside the list, then switch its view:

• Data: each answer's share, row by row.
• Crosstab: the answers broken down by group.
• Trend: how it moved across the years it was asked.
• Topline: the headline numbers.
• Global: its full dossier.

Keep track

Each row carries three marks:

• The box adds it as a column to compare.
• The arrow marks it Important.
• The star adds it to Favorites.

Favorites and Important in the sidebar list just those.