Democrats are now more worried than Republicans about AI and its impact on jobs
In another shift, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to predict that AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years (75% vs. 68%).
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FAQs about political weighting in polling and its limitations
There are good arguments against weighting surveys to match how people voted in past elections or an independent estimate of political party affiliation. We know because we’ve made many of those arguments over the years! However, the steep decline in survey response rates and the rise in differential partisan nonresponse have made those arguments less […]
Acknowledgments
This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Scott Keeter, Senior Survey AdvisorCourtney Kennedy, Former Vice President, Methods and InnovationAndrew Mercer, […]
Why many polls need to weight on party affiliation or past vote
There are two big reasons why many pollsters now weight their surveys on political characteristics such as party affiliation or past vote, when this wasn’t common practice a decade ago: to correct for a systematic bias that emerged around 2016 and to protect against poll-to-poll volatility driven by who participates rather than real changes in […]
Survey panels can make political party affiliation weighting easier
One challenge pollsters face when weighting surveys based on people’s self-reported political party affiliation is that the population target can change fairly quickly. One year, Americans may be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. The next year, politics may shift and one party clearly outnumbers the other in supporters. Weighting to the shares of Republicans […]
3 ways to correct a poll’s political balance: Party affiliation, past vote and voter file information
Pollsters vary in how they weight their survey samples on political characteristics, if at all. Their choices tend to be informed by factors such as the population being surveyed and the sample source (e.g., a list of all addresses in the United States or a list of registered voters), the focus of the poll (preelection […]
Weighting Polls on Party Affiliation and Past Vote
This report explains how political weighting works, how Pew Research Center does it, and some of its limitations.
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Errata: Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off
2026 primary season yields greatest preelection House turnover in over 3 decades
74 House members won't return next Congress – more than before any general election since 1992.
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Religion Weekly Update, Sept. 16, 2026
Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions Faith on the Hill: Catholic members of Congress share how faith shapes their lives and work Sept. 8 – EWTN News In the news At AI conference, religious […]
Appendix B: Coding methodology
This Pew Research Center report on Israeli and Palestinian views of peaceful coexistence between Israel and an independent Palestinian state uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem. We surveyed 1,001 Israeli adults from April 5 to May 6, 2026, and 1,038 Palestinian adults from March 30 […]
Appendix A: Survey methodology
About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem under the direction of Gallup. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. Read more about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs. For […]
Views of the U.S. providing military assistance to Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza
On military assistance to Israel, roughly half of Israeli adults say the U.S. is providing about the right amount and a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem say the U.S. is providing too much.
Acknowledgments
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Maria Smerkovich, Research AssociateKirsten Lesage, Research AssociateJulia Armeli, Research Assistant Janakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystAlan Cooperman, Director, Religion ResearchShifra Dayak, Editorial SpecialistJonathan Evans, Senior ResearcherMoira Fagan, Senior ResearcherSneha Gubbala, Research AnalystSofia Hernandez Ramones, Research AnalystCarolyn Lau, […]
Many Israelis and Palestinians Say They Cannot Coexist Peacefully – and Explain Why
Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem reflect on the viability of a two-state solution
About 9 in 10 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem see Israeli checkpoints as a major problem
A large majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (85%) also say that opportunities for work are a major problem for them and their families.
Who is Hispanic?
More than 70 million people in the U.S. identify as Hispanic today, but government agencies and survey organizations don't count the Hispanic population in the same way.
Methodology
This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The American Trends Panel survey methodology, Wave 190 Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 190 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research […]
Acknowledgments
This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/. Research Kirsten Eddy, Senior ResearcherKaterina Eva Matsa, Director, News and Information Research Michael Lipka, Associate Director, News and Information Research Benjamin Toff, […]
How Americans view the relationship between the government and the news media
Republicans and Democrats largely agree that the Trump administration and the U.S. news media have a bad relationship.