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The practice of surveying representative samples of people to gauge public attitudes on politics, policy, and economic issues, often by demographic or region.
A Yale and George Mason survey of 1,068 adults found 56% oppose a data center in their area and only 15% support one. Among registered voters, about half of conservative Republicans oppose one too, so party lean does not mark a safe site.
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Yale and George Mason researchers found that 56% of 1,068 US adults oppose a data center in their local area and 15% support one. Local limits are appearing in Massachusetts and Vermont towns, though the poll cannot show that opinion produced them.
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Gallup found 11% of US adults now take a GLP-1 for weight loss, up from 3% in 2024. Its survey of 5,065 adults counts users, not spending, so food and insurance planners still need their own dollar figures.
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STAT's analysis of Wellcome Global Monitor data finds a 24-point religious gap in how Americans rate science's benefits, against 5 points across peer nations. The gap is widening because secular and college-educated Americans have warmed to science fastest.
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Fifty-six percent of US voters, including 43% of Republicans, back limits on building data centers, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. That puts local siting fights at the front of the political risk to AI spending before the November 3 midterms.
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Foreign Affairs argues last weekend's United Russia landslide was organised in advance to display total commitment to the war, while the Levada Center's own numbers show approval and public morale falling underneath it.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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Support for pausing AI development leads in all six countries Public First surveyed, and it tops out at 51%, while the path from that sentiment to a binding rule runs through a US president who calls the warnings a hoax.
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POLITICO's new poll puts 63 percent of US adults on the view that AI could someday destroy mankind. In the same survey, 62 percent said they would abandon a project like that and expect rival labs to do the same.
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A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
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The post argues the coalition against slowing AI down is losing the public argument, and it rests that on bipartisan majorities it reads off Nate Silver's summary of the polling. The five constituencies it names each want something different.
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An AP-NORC and University of Chicago poll puts concern about AI's environmental impact at 53%, up from 41% a year ago, with majorities worried about local electricity prices and water supply.
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UC San Diego's election center puts confidence in the national vote count at 55%, down from 77% just after the 2024 election. The fall since January has been steepest among independents.
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The Speaker rejected a national moratorium on AI buildout and said developers bear responsibility for safety. Two pollsters put opposition to data centers near respondents at 69% and 70%, and forecasters expect the midterms to cost him the gavel.
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Two weeks after being named minister of gender equality and family, Yong Hye-in gave up the nomination at a National Assembly news conference on the 13th and said she will go back to her work as a lawmaker.
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A King's College London study with YouGov measures how far British beliefs about the capital's crime and Muslim population are from the recorded figures, and finds the errors run in opposite directions by party.
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Proposition 40 would take 5% once from anyone worth over $1 billion. August polling puts it at 48% among likely voters and 75% among 18-to-29s. The composition of the November electorate is the only number that decides it.
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A new Heatmap Pro poll puts local opposition at three-quarters of Americans, with strong opposition above 60%. Siting is now a permitting programme, not a land deal.
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Annenberg finds 70% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats favor banning the herbicide, while most respondents say they have heard little about it. A one-point party gap is not a gap at all.
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Two polls taken days apart put the loudest disapproval among the first-time buyers the policy was written for, and the expectation of price relief is thinning with it.
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