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Among Latino registered voters, 86% say the economy is very important for their congressional vote in 2026; a majority also believe the Trump administration is doing too much on deportations.
Latino registered voters view the Democratic Party more favourably (53%) than the Republican Party (29%); Democratic favourability is up from 44% in the months before the 2024 election.
Democratic congressional candidates hold a sizable advantage among Latino registered voters in 2026, and Latino supporters of Democratic candidates are more engaged with this midterm election than they were four years earlier.
Men and women now use AI chatbots at similar overall rates, but men report more frequent use while women express greater scepticism about AI’s impact on their lives.
Analysis of US income and wealth since 2000 finds growth across lower-, middle- and upper-income households, but the largest gains accrued to the upper-income group, underscoring rising disparities in relative terms.
Shows Donald Trump’s current approval at about 30% with 68% disapproving; notably, 31% of his 2024 voters now disapprove of his job performance, marking a substantial drop in approval during his second term.
Many Americans report affordability pressures: a substantial share say they have cut back spending on discretionary items such as dining out and entertainment over the past year, signalling squeezed household finances and reduced non-essential consumption.
Among voters surveyed, 44% say their congressional vote this year is a vote against Donald Trump, while 19% say it is a vote for him, indicating opposition to Trump is a larger motivating factor than support.
Forty-four percent of Americans experienced difficulty affording a basic necessity in the past year, with the burden concentrated among lower-income adults, highlighting widespread cost-of-living pressures.
Since 2019 an increasing share of Americans who say inequality is too high now believe the economic system must be completely rebuilt, reflecting a shift toward more systemic views of inequality and its remedies.
The 119th US Congress has enacted just 121 laws so far, making it one of the least productive legislatures in the past 40 years, according to Pew Research Center’s legislative count and analysis.
Younger Republicans’ views of certain countries and international organisations sometimes align more closely with Democrats than with older Republicans, indicating generational divides within the party on foreign and multilateral issues.
Pew’s survey research shows most online communities are not centred on politics, and a majority of members say political discussion should generally be kept out of the communities they visit most.
A majority of US adults expect Democrats to win control of the House in upcoming elections, while opinions on which party will control the Senate are evenly divided, according to Pew Research Center polling on partisan expectations.
Finds that rising costs of household essentials are the principal economic worry for most Americans, mirroring concerns from four years earlier ahead of the last midterm election.
Reports that 84% of registered voters say the economy is very important to their midterm vote; while the economy tops issues for all voters, Republicans and Democrats differ on the salience of other issues.
About half of US adults report never using chatbots; non-users most commonly cite disinterest, privacy worries and concerns about accuracy as the main reasons for avoiding them.
Most Americans discuss news privately online (via messaging or private groups), while only about a quarter publish news-related posts publicly on social platforms, according to Pew’s analysis of online news engagement behaviours.
Presents US public sentiment toward G20 members ahead of the summit: most Americans view Australia, Canada, Japan and Italy positively, while Russia receives the coldest ratings. The piece summarises comparative warmth and coolness across member countries.
A Pew-Knight Initiative survey finds about one in three US adults have ever left an online community, based on data from the American Trends Panel conducted in May; the release explores motivations and prevalence of departures.
Describes Wave 198 of Pew’s American Trends Panel: a nationally representative survey conducted 24–30 August 2026, with 5,166 responses from 5,602 sampled panelists, and details on weighting and fieldwork.
Global public‑opinion polling finds widespread concern that social media harms democracy by spreading rumours; accompanying survey highlights anxieties about AI, job losses, and inequality in some countries.
Turkish police raided the headquarters of Halk TV this week, halting live broadcasts and installing a new administrator to oversee one of the few remaining channels that airs critical coverage, raising concerns about media freedom.
About 38–39% of US adults belong to an online community such as Facebook groups, gaming communities or Reddit fandom forums, which function as virtual ‘third spaces’ for social connection and shared interest.
In a multinational poll, 85% of French adults say their national economy is doing badly — the highest share among 18 high‑income countries included in the survey.
Just over half of health and wellness social media content focuses on healthy living, around a third covers medical topics, and 38% of posts promote a product or service, per Pew’s content analysis.
Influencers who identify as healthcare professionals post substantially more about medical conditions, mental health and clinically supervised treatments than other health and wellness influencers, according to Pew’s content analysis.
Public opinion polling summarises US religious groups’ midterm voting preferences, noting differences between denominations — for example, Catholics leaning three points towards Democratic House candidates — based on Pew’s recent analyses.
Survey experiments using Opus 4.6 and GPT‑5.1 produced markedly different synthetic public‑opinion results, with neither model’s output matching actual human survey benchmarks, highlighting model-dependent distortions in AI polling.
US polling finds the Iran conflict is widely unpopular: 65% disapprove of President Trump’s handling of US military action, 33% approve, and many Americans expect the conflict to continue for months.