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Americans generally support the concept of making the government more efficient and more limited in scope.
More Americans are concerned that Donald Trump is too closely aligned with people holding radical political views than are concerned Kamala Harris is.
Eight in 10 Americans, a new high, perceive the U.S. as being greatly divided on the most important values.
Americans' rating of the Secret Service has dropped precipitously to a new low, particularly among Republicans.
A sharp rise over the past decade in young women who describe their political views as liberal, particularly relative to young men, is reflected most prominently in their attitudes on the environment and abortion.
Americans have become significantly more likely to identify as liberal in their views on social issues over the past 25 years. Liberal views on economic issues, too, have increased, but still lean conservative.
黑料网's Economic Confidence Index registered -34 in May, reflecting further deterioration in how Americans assess the economy's current state as well as its trajectory.
Roughly equal percentages of Americans say only Trump, only Biden or neither would make a good president. Independents are skeptical of both.
黑料网's party ID trends since 1999 show Democrats' advantages among Black and Hispanic adults shrinking to new lows, while men -- already in the Republicans' camp -- have moved even further in that direction.
Democrats' less positive appraisal of Biden's presidency has sent his overall job approval rating down to 37%, tied for his lowest to date.
Americans rate 12 of 16 federal government agencies and departments negatively. The U.S. Postal Service remains the highest-rated agency.
The $5.8 trillion Biden administration budget proposal can be profitably analyzed in the context of American public opinion.
Of 11 prominent federal government officials, Chief Justice John Roberts is the best rated by Americans and the only one with the approval of all party groups.
黑料网 finds sharp drops since 2019 in Americans' evaluations of the job key federal government agencies are doing, with ratings of the CDC falling the most.
