Gallup Poll News Service back issues from July 2007:
Black-White Educational Opportunities Widely Seen as Equal; Americans favor merit over racial diversity for college admittance.(Survey)
Jul 02, 2007 ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: Most Americans say black children have as good a chance as white children in their communities to get a good education. Thus, the need for the types of school-choice programs used around the country to improve classroom diversity may not seem urgent ...
Hispanic Voters Prefer Clinton to Giuliani in Hypothetical Match-Up; Hispanic registered voters with college educations are divided in their preferences.(presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani)(Survey)
Jul 02, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: While the projected vote for a November 2008 presidential match-up between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani is quite close, there are substantial differences within the overall population of voters by race and ethnicity. The Republican Giuliani ...
Public Assesses Pros and Cons of Possible Hillary Clinton Presidency; See her being first female president as best thing.(Survey)
Jul 03, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Asked to name the best thing about a possible Hillary Clinton presidency, Americans' top specific response is that she would become the first female president. Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike mention this as the best result of ...
Only 11% of Blacks Satisfied With State of the Nation Right Now; National satisfaction ratings also very low among whites, Hispanics.(Survey)
Jul 03, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: Just 11% of blacks are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, according to the 2007 update on Gallup's Minority Rights and Relations survey. National satisfaction among blacks, Hispanics, and whites, while not significantly ...
Britons Unthreatened By Those With Different Religious Beliefs; Two-thirds agree that people from minority groups enrich their culture.(Survey)
Jul 05, 2007; ... Byline: Patricia Guadalupe Synopsis: Although many of those involved in alleged terrorism plots in the United Kingdom have been Muslim extremists, UK officials have taken pains to distinguish them from the country's large Muslim population. Gallup Polls in 2006 and 2007 found ...
Americans Continue to Express Slight Preference for Boys; Little changed since 1941.(Survey)
Jul 05, 2007; ... Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: Americans have a slight preference for a boy rather than a girl if they could have only one child, an attitude that has changed little in 66 years of Gallup polling. A strong preference among men to have a boy drives these attitudes; women do not ...
Hispanics Support Requiring English Proficiency for Immigrants; Whites, blacks even more likely to agree.(Survey)
Jul 05, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: A recent Gallup Poll asked Americans if the government should require immigrants in the United States to be proficient in English as a condition for remaining in the country. A solid majority of Americans support the requirement, including nearly ...
"Giuliani Republicans" Less Conservative Than the Typical Republican; Supporters of Giuliani less likely to identify themselves as pro-life on abortion.(Rudy Giuliani)(Survey)
Jul 06, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Republicans who support Rudy Giuliani for the party's nomination are less likely than other Republicans to identify themselves as conservatives and to say they are conservative on social issues. The two groups are about equally likely to call ...
A Downturn in Black Perceptions of Racial Harmony; Two-thirds of blacks are dissatisfied with society's treatment of blacks.(Survey)
Jul 06, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: One in three blacks today say they are satisfied with the way blacks are treated in society, down from a year ago. A majority of blacks -- 55% -- are still positive about race relations, saying relations between whites and blacks in the United States ...
Gas, Jobs, Inflation: Consumers' Top Complaints About U.S. Economy; Economic optimists cite jobs as the primary sign of economic improvement.(Survey)
Jul 09, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: Public optimism about the U.S. economy has been in decline since last fall, dipping to 23% in mid-June -- and the question is, why? The latest Gallup Panel survey asked Americans just that, and found soaring gas prices, unemployment, and rising ...
Bush Job Approval at 29%, Lowest of His Administration; First time below 30%.(President George W. Bush)(Survey)
Jul 10, 2007; ... Byline: Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll Synopsis: President Bush's job approval rating is now at a new low of 29%. Bush's current rating puts him in the bottom 3% of more than 1,300 Gallup Polls since 1938. Four other presidents have recorded job approval ratings below 30% ...
Two in Three Say Bush Should Not Have Intervened in Libby Case; Only 13% say commuting sentence was right thing to do.(President George W. Bush)(Survey)
Jul 10, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Sixty-six percent of Americans say President Bush should not have intervened in the case of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. The action may not even help Bush among his party base -- the vast majority of Republicans say it has not affected their level of ...
Latest Poll Shows High Point in Opposition to Iraq War; Sixty-two percent say U.S. made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq.(Survey)
Jul 11, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Sixty-two percent of Americans say the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, the highest level of opposition to the war Gallup has measured. Most Americans think the recent surge in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is not ...
Half of Grocery Shoppers Seek "Made in America" Label; Poll finds significant concern about safety of Chinese-based food products.(Survey)
Jul 11, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: The "Made in America" label has typically appealed to Americans' sense of national pride, but with the FDA recently halting the import of certain seafood products from China because of "filth" and illegal contaminants, the label could now be a draw ...
Clinton, Giuliani Still Top Parties' Support for Nominations in 2008; McCain drops to third in Republican field.(presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton and John McCain)(Survey)
Jul 12, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll and Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: The Republican and Democratic presidential nomination contests have been stable this year, with Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton enjoying significant leads over their respective fields. The most notable change has been among ...
Democrats Are Encouraged About Women's Job Rights; Still lag behind Republicans, but positive outlook surged over the past year.(Survey)
Jul 12, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: Americans' belief that women have equal job opportunities as men in the U.S. grew over the past year, to the point that a solid majority now believe such equality exists. The shift could be a reaction to the ascension of women to some very high ...
Bloomberg at 12% as Independent for President; Draws about equal support from Republicans and Democrats.(Michael Bloomberg)(Survey)
Jul 13, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad and Joseph Carroll Synopsis: Twelve percent of registered voters say they would vote for Michael Bloomberg as an independent candidate for president in 2008. Americans rate Bloomberg more positively than negatively, though 37% are not familiar with him. While ...
Americans Have Become More Negative on Impact of Immigrants; Hispanics remain much more positive than whites or blacks.(Survey)
Jul 13, 2007; ... Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: Americans are more negative about the impact of immigrants on life in the United States than they have been in the previous years of this decade. Americans have become particularly more negative about immigration's impact on food, music and the ...
Healthcare Costs: A Challenge for U.S. Minorities; Nearly half of blacks and Hispanics say they struggled at times to pay for medical care in the last year.(Survey)
Jul 16, 2007; ... Byline: Magali Rheault Synopsis: A recent Gallup Poll shows that large numbers of minorities struggle to pay for healthcare. Almost half of both blacks and Hispanics say healthcare costs have been a challenge for them. Overall, 32% of Americans have had difficulty paying for ...
Gallup Poll Review: John McCain; McCain's favorable rating has dropped 12 percentage points since March.(Survey)
Jul 17, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: Sen. John McCain remains in third place among Republicans as their party's preferred nominee -- behind Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. McCain's favorable ratings are significantly lower than they were earlier this year, caused by more of a drop ...
2008 Nomination Contests Holding Steady With Clinton and Giuliani on Top; No further decline in McCain's support despite rough patch on campaign trail.(presidential candidates HIllary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain)(Survey)
Jul 17, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: With or without Al Gore in the field, Hillary Clinton continues to lead Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. Rudy Giuliani continues to lead the Republican field, with Fred Thompson in second place and McCain in a close third. Giuliani holds a ...
Bush's Latest Quarterly Approval Average Easily Surpasses Previous Low; Approval rating 31% in latest poll.(President George W. Bush)(Survey)
Jul 18, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: The latest Gallup Poll shows George W. Bush's job approval rating at 31%, tied for the second lowest of his presidency. His low point of 29% was measured in the prior poll, taken a week earlier. Bush averaged 31.8% approval during his most ...
Americans' Ratings of Dick Cheney Reach New Lows; Job approval rating, favorable rating both at 30%.(Survey)
Jul 18, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: Americans' ratings of Vice President Dick Cheney are now at their lowest point to date, according to a new Gallup Poll. Thirty percent of Americans say they approve of the way Cheney is handling his job as vice president, and the same percentage ...
Giuliani Would Be Acceptable Nominee to Nearly 3 in 4 Republicans; Three leading Democratic candidates acceptable to roughly 80% of Democrats.(Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani)(Survey)
Jul 19, 2007 ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Nearly three quarters of Republicans say Rudy Giuliani would be an acceptable presidential nominee to them, far more than say this about any other Republican candidate. On the Democratic side, roughly 8 in 10 say each of the three leading ...
About One in Three Hispanics Say Immigration Is Nation's Top Problem; Whites, blacks, and Hispanics most often mention Iraq war as the "most important problem".(Survey)
Jul 19, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: About one in three Americans say the war in Iraq is "the most important problem facing the country today." The issue ranks first for whites, blacks, and Hispanics, but the three groups differ widely in their views of immigration as the nation's ...
Americans Put Obesity on par With Smoking in Terms of Harmful Effects; Most Americans sympathetic to plight of the obese.(Survey)
Jul 20, 2007; ... Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: Americans are as likely to say that being significantly overweight is very harmful to one's health as say this about smoking. More than one-quarter of Americans report that obesity has been a cause of serious health problems in their family ....
Do Americans Want to Be Surprised by the Sex of Their Baby? Age, religiosity, parental status impact views about finding out sex of a baby.(Survey)
Jul 20, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: A recent Gallup Panel poll finds Americans roughly divided as to whether or not they would want to know the sex of a baby before it was born. Most 18- to 34-year-old Americans, women under age 50, and parents with young children say they would ...
Consumer Optimism in Short Supply, Unchanged From June; Relatively few think economy is nation's top problem.(Survey)
Jul 23, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: Consumer spirits lifted slightly over the past month, but remain generally subdued, as they have for most of the past six and a half years. This is seen in Americans' ratings of current economic conditions as well as in their perception of the ...
Most Top Seed Pairings in 2008 Presidential Election Are Too Close to Call; Obama versus Thompson produces only clear-cut lead, with Obama ahead.(presidential candidates Barack Obama and Fred Thompson)(Survey)
Jul 24, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: A presidential race that includes the top-ranked Republican, Rudy Giuliani, would be highly competitive, regardless of whether his opponent is the top-ranked Democrat Hillary Clinton or second-place Democrat Barack Obama. Fred Thompson, newly ...
Congress Job Approval at 27%; Job approval rating up three points since June, still lower than earlier this year.(Survey)
Jul 24, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: A recent Gallup Poll finds congressional job approval ratings at 27%, up a slight three points since last month but still lower than it was earlier this year when the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress. Congressional job approval ...
Kosovo's Future: Poll Results Offer Little Hope for Consensus; Majority of Serbs think an independent Kosovo will destabilize the region and 16% think there will be another war; Kosovar Albanians disagree.(Survey)
Jul 24, 2007; ... Byline: Zsolt Nyiri, Ph.D. Regional Research Director for Europe, Gallup World Poll Synopsis: The future of Kosovo is now a heated international debate. Among residents of Kosovo and Serbia themselves, arriving at a consensus seems all but impossible. Most Serbians and 75% of ...
Latest Gallup Update Shows Cigarette Smoking Near Historical Lows; Only 21% of Americans report smoking cigarettes in past week.(Survey)
Jul 25, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Gallup's annual update on Americans' smoking habits finds the rate of cigarette smoking among the adult population near the low point in the more than 60-year history of this question. Additionally, the poll shows a continuing decline in the ...
More Smokers Feeling Harassed by Smoking Bans; Nearly half feel unjustly discriminated against by public smoking restrictions.(Survey)
Jul 25, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: As the percentage of Americans willing to ban smoking in various public places continues to creep up, more smokers than ever say they feel unjustly discriminated against by society. Most Americans say they are sympathetic toward smokers because they ...
Impact of Religion on Clinton's and Giuliani's Election Chances; Weekly churchgoers less likely than those who attend sometimes or never to support Giuliani for Republican nomination.(presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani)(Survey)
Jul 26, 2007; ... Byline: Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll Synopsis: Religion may play a varied role in the 2008 presidential primaries and elections. Rudy Giuliani's chances of receiving the Republican nomination may be hampered by his weaker performance among highly religious Republicans ....
Stability, Good Governance Boost Confidence in Botswana; Combating AIDS, unemployment, poverty are population's top development concerns.(Survey)
Jul 26, 2007; ... Byline: Magali Rheault Synopsis: Since attaining independence in 1966, Botswana has become a model of political stability and good governance. As a result, public confidence in many social and political institutions is high. But that positivity notwithstanding, Botswana's ...
Beer Again Edges Out Wine as Americans' Drink of Choice; Nearly two in three Americans drink alcohol.(Gallup survey)(Survey)
Jul 27, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones Synopsis: Gallup's annual update on Americans' drinking habits shows beer again edging out wine as the adult beverage of choice. The percentage of Americans who drink any type of alcohol remains stable, though the poll shows that more Americans drink on ...
Most Americans Oppose Lowering Legal Drinking Age to 18 Nationwide; Six in 10 Americans support stricter penalties for underage drinking.(Gallup survey)(Survey)
Jul 27, 2007; ... Byline: Joseph Carroll Synopsis: A recent Gallup Poll finds widespread opposition to lowering the drinking age to 18 in America and majority support for making the penalties for underage drinking stricter. These views have changed little over the past six years. Younger adults ...
Racial Disagreement Over Death Penalty Has Varied Historically; Whites consistently more supportive, but only occasionally have majority of blacks favored it.(Survey)
Jul 30, 2007; ... Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: For at least 35 years, Gallup polling has found whites to be more supportive than blacks of the death penalty, by an average of nearly 30 points. However, overall public support has occasionally risen to the point that a majority of blacks have ...
Public Confidence in Presidential Hopefuls on Key 2008 Election Issues; No candidate has a clear edge on Iraq.(Survey)
Jul 31, 2007; ... Byline: Jeffrey M. Jones and Joseph Carroll Synopsis: A new Gallup Panel survey finds none of the best-known presidential candidates have an advantage in public confidence on the issue of the war in Iraq. Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have a decided edge over the other ...
Economic Stability Helping Indonesians Put Tough Decade Behind Them; 2007 poll detects clear uptick in economic optimism.(Survey)
Jul 31, 2007; ... Byline: Linda Lyons Synopsis: A comparison of Gallup polls of Indonesians in March 2006 and April 2007 reveals a clear uptick in economic optimism. In 2006, fewer than half of Indonesians (47%) said they were satisfied with their own standard of living; in 2007, that number was ...