Poll Hub24 Kesä 2021

Rapid Changes in American Attitudes About LGBTQ+ Issues

It’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month in much of the U.S. with the post-COVID return of the big annual parades in NYC and San Francisco. Seems like a good time to look back at how quickly Americans’ opinions moved on a key issue to the community -- same-sex marriage. Pollsters didn’t even ask about it until the mid-90s and two decades later, it was the law of the land. But does that mean similar acceptance will come at a similar trajectory on other concerns to the queer community such as trans rights?

And, Infrastructure Week is back! Well, not exactly, but the Senate seems closer than it’s been in at least a decade to cobbling together a bipartisan bill to rebuild some of America’s allegedly crumbling infrastructure. What do Americans think about the various proposals being discussed?

Then, we end with a Fun Fact near and dear to Lee’s heart: the NY Yankees. A question from the distant past raises some tough questions this year….

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Poll Hub goes behind the science to explain how polling works, what polls really show, and what the numbers really mean. Poll Hub is produced by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, home of America’s leading independent college public opinion poll, the Marist Poll. Lee Miringoff (Director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion), Barbara Carvalho (Director of the Marist Poll), and Jay DeDapper (Director of Innovation at the Marist Poll) dig deep to give you a look at the inner workings of polls and what they tell us about our world, our country, and ourselves.   

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