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154 questions since 2019 — type a topic and jump to it inside the piece that discusses it.

August 30, 2026 · 667 registered voters

Americans Reject U.S. Tariffs on Canada

Sixty-five percent of Americans disapprove of the new U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports, including 54% who strongly disapprove.

Leading answer: Strongly disapprove · 54%
August 23, 2026 · 764 registered voters

Half of America Strongly Rejects the Democratic Socialists’ Program

The Democratic Socialists of America is a political nonprofit that organizes activists, endorses candidates and writes policy platforms.

Leading answer: Strongly disapprove · 51%
August 16, 2026 · 602 registered voters

Americans Split on NYC-Owned Grocery Stores

New York City officials announced plans on July 27, 2026, to open five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough.

Leading answer: Do not proceed · 43%
August 9, 2026 · 831 registered voters

Fauci Fallout Splits America

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent Senate testimony has renewed attention on how Congress responds when witnesses refuse to answer questions.

Leading answer: Prison · 44%
August 2, 2026 · 559 registered voters

Stop Changing The Clocks!

The long-running debate over Daylight Saving Time has gained new momentum as Congress considers changing how the U.S. keeps time.

Leading answer: Permanent standard · 49%
July 26, 2026 · 541 registered voters

Divided but Net Positive Views to Trump Accounts Launch

A new federally backed savings and investment program for children is now underway in the United States.

Leading answer: Strongly approve · 37%
July 17, 2026 · 481 registered voters

Americans Favor Limits on AI Data Center Expansion

A majority of voters — 52% — say AI data center expansion should be significantly restricted, the clear leading position across every point on the political spectrum.

Leading answer: Restrict · 52%
July 12, 2026 · 585 registered voters

Poll Finds Majority Support for Federal Ban After Supreme Court Sports Ruling

A majority of respondents — 54% — say there should be a federal ban on biological males in female sports, the clear leading position after the Court's June 30 ruling.

Leading answer: Federal ban · 54%
July 5, 2026 · 525 registered voters

Public Opinion Divides Sharply on Supreme Court TPS Decision

The public is closely divided and intensely so — 39% strongly approve of the ruling allowing TPS termination for Haitians and Syrians, while 35% strongly disapprove.

Leading answer: Strongly approve · 39%
June 28, 2026 · 476 registered voters

Voters Lean Negative on the U.S.-Iran Interim Agreement

More voters disapprove (43%) than approve (30%) of the June 2026 interim agreement signed in Geneva — with the sharpest opposition coming from the Left, not the Right.

Leading answer: Strongly disapprove · 30%
April 8, 2026 · 1177 registered voters

AllSides/ActiVote Survey on Executive Actions

In March 2026, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on a survey on executive actions with 10 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: Strongly disapprove · 44%
January 1, 2026 · 487 registered voters

Poll on Age Limits for Elected Officials

Joe Biden was the oldest president inaugurated to a first term at the age of 78 years and 2 months.

Leading answer: Require testing · 42%
December 11, 2025 · 560 registered voters

AllSides/ActiVote Survey on Federal Debt

In November 2025, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on a survey on the federal debt with 14 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: Balanced budget amendment · 49%
November 10, 2025 · 556 registered voters

Who's to blame for the 2025 shutdown?

On October 1st, 2025, the Federal Government shut down.

Leading answer: All Democrats · 33%
November 5, 2025 · 582 registered voters

Americans Want to End Shutdowns

Between October 28 to November 4, 2025, ActiVote performed a survey on the ongoing government shutdown with 5 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: Auto CR · 57%
October 20, 2025 · 492 registered voters

AllSides/ActiVote Survey on Tariffs

In October 2025, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on a survey on tariffs with 9 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: Used to stimulate and protect domestic industries · 52%
September 22, 2025 · 2392 registered voters

Russia-Ukraine Survey

In September 2025, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on a survey on Russia and Ukraine with 8 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: No claim · 72%
May 5, 2025 · 406 registered voters

Judge Hannah Dugan’s Arrest

On April 25, 2025, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI on charges of obstruction and concealing an individual after allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, evade arrest.

Leading answer: Arrest all obstructionists · 37%
December 12, 2024 · 997 registered voters

Department of Government Efficiency

On September 7, 2024, two months before the US Presidential Election, Elon Musk posted on X a meme, ultimately viewed by hundreds of millions of people, that suggested that he might take a role in a newly to be created Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), if Trump won a second term.

Leading answer: Cancel it. · 38%
December 12, 2024 · 2845 registered voters

Do we like rules and regulations?

Government regulation became a major topic of discussion during the 2024 election when Elon Musk and the Trump campaign pitched the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Leading answer: Minimize regulations · 53%
November 15, 2024 · 790 registered voters

Online Voting Survey

ActiVote has conducted a survey in the ActiVote app in 2024 to determine what the American people think about mobile voting.

Leading answer: Universal · 37%
April 27, 2024 · 2985 registered voters

TikTok Ban

TikTok is a popular and addictive app which allows its 1.5 billion monthly users to share and watch short videos.

Leading answer: Audit TikTok · 48%
April 3, 2024 · 15488 registered voters

The NATO Military Alliance

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in the wake of World War II and the start of the Cold War, on April 4th, 1949, exactly 75 years ago.

Leading answer: Encourage others to join · 45%
March 3, 2024 · 1546 registered voters

ActiVote Poll shows we don’t want to “spring forward”

On Sunday morning March 10th, at 2am, all of the continental U.S. except for Arizona will move the clock forward to start Daylight Saving Time 2024.

Leading answer: Should be immediately discontinued · 58%
October 2, 2023 · 567 registered voters

What do we really think about energy independence?

In August 2023, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on an Energy Independency Survey with 12 questions, each with 5 possible answers.

Leading answer: Focus on both · 50%
June 28, 2023 · 1090 registered voters

What do we really think about Immigration?

In June 2023, AllSides, CommonSense American and ActiVote collaborated on an Immigration Survey with 10 questions, each with 5 possible answers and 1 historic immigration bill with a yes/unsure/no vote.

Leading answer: Less · 35%
September 6, 2022 · 5,000 registered voters

Student Loan Debt Relief

On August 24th, 2022 President Joe Biden announced his plan to forgive about $500 billion of the total almost $1.8 trillion in student debt held by some 43 million borrowers.

Leading answer: forgive full $1.8T · 28%
July 25, 2022 · 1,387 registered voters

Support for Abortion Rights Increased post-Dobbs

After the landmark Dobbs vs.

Leading answer: Illegal with exceptions · 28%
December 13, 2021 · 4335 registered voters

Reconciliation Review

As part of the Build Back Better event, run in the ActiVote app from November 3rd -November 17th, 2021, a poll on 11 topics and 2 bills was executed.

Leading answer: include age 3 and up · 44%
December 9, 2021 · 542 registered voters

To Cancel or Not to Cancel

Many opinion pieces have been written about Cancel Culture, what it is and whether it is positive or negative.

Leading answer: discouraged · 44%
October 8, 2021 · 526 registered voters

Native American Voting Rights

Even if rules about voting are the same for everyone, they may affect different people differently.

Leading answer: avoid suppression at all costs · 69%
October 5, 2021 · 238 registered voters

Civic Holidays

Some holidays are special.

Leading answer: evolve over time · 48%
September 24, 2021 · 736 registered voters

Automatic Voter Registration

Tuesday September 28th, 2021 is National Voter Registration Day, a good day to reflect on how easy or difficult it is for people to register to vote.

Leading answer: federal mandate · 51%
September 17, 2021 · 1036 registered voters

Infrastructure Week Results

As part of the Infrastructure Week ActiVote event, run in the ActiVote app from August 31st-September 16th, 2021, a poll on 11 topics, 2 bills, and 1 procedure question was executed.

Leading answer: higher % than other nations · 43%
September 9, 2021 · 513 registered voters

National Service

Every now and again someone will bring up National Service as a solution to the problem of our country being divided.

Leading answer: national service more attractive · 50%
August 23, 2021 · 865 registered voters

Private Sector Labor Unions

President Joe Biden has been overtly pro-union his entire career and has not changed his tune since he took office.

Leading answer: unions everywhere · 42%
August 2, 2021 · 4190 registered voters

Legal Representation in Eviction Court

The federal eviction moratorium which was created to stop evictions during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ended on July 31st.

Leading answer: income dependent · 30%
August 2, 2021 · 10884 registered voters

Universal Broadband

A $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is making its way through Congress.

Leading answer: government should build national internet · 28%
July 9, 2021 · 215 registered voters

Bipartisanship

There has been a lot of talk about bipartisanship lately.

Leading answer: majority should aim for minority support · 46%
June 21, 2021 · 3129 registered voters

NATO Membership

President Biden and former President Trump disagreed on many things, one of them being NATO.

Leading answer: encourage other European countries to join · 35%
June 14, 2021 · 4406 registered voters

Foreign Aid

During President Biden’s trip to Europe for meetings with the G7, NATO and of course the visit with Queen Elizabeth, he announced that the US will buy 500 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to donate to countries which need the vaccine but cannot afford it.

Leading answer: Keep at 1.0% · 28%
June 6, 2021 · 12520 registered voters

Abortion

Recently, the Supreme Court announced that they will review the Mississippi abortion law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is significantly before fetal viability, in direct conflict with the 1973 Roe vs.

Leading answer: legal with regulations · 24%
May 18, 2021 · 808 registered voters

Civics Education

In these polarized times we could wonder whether our nation’s motto requires a revision to “E Pluribus Duo” as it seems at times we live in two separate countries.

Leading answer: full year, volunteering, project, citizen exam · 46%
May 1, 2021 · 659 registered voters

An Epic Antitrust Fight

This week the case Epic Games v.

Leading answer: Antitrust should be updated to handle the digital economy · 55%
April 25, 2021 · 603 registered voters

Statehood for DC?

Last week, the House of Representatives, on a purely partisan basis, passed H.R. 51, an act to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth into the Union.

Leading answer: state, with 2 senators and 1 representative · 46%
April 12, 2021 · 2630 registered voters

Corporate Tax Rate

As part of President Biden’s American Job’s Plan, which is an over $2 trillion investment in infrastructure and more, he also launched the “Made in America Tax Plan”.

Leading answer: 35% · 37%
April 5, 2021 · 1474 registered voters

Americans Like to Move!

On Wednesday March 31st, President Joe Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan.

Leading answer: major surface transportation bill · 68%
March 29, 2021 · 3756 registered voters

Virginia abolishes the death penalty - what does America think?

On March 24th, 2021, Virginia abolished the death penalty.

Leading answer: abolished · 37%
March 7, 2021 · 11912 registered voters

What does America think of a $15 minimum wage?

The American Rescue Plan Act, a $1.9 Trillion economic stimulus package that is making its way through Congress, includes in the House version (H.R. 1319) an increase of the Federal Minimum Wage from $7.25 to $15.

Leading answer: $15.00 · 40%
February 1, 2021 · 2490 registered voters

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

The “DACA” executive order signed by President Obama in 2014 has always been controversial, as it was a response to the inability of Congress to pass immigration reform.

Leading answer: All 1.7M given pathway to citizenship · 54%
November 23, 2020 · 296 registered voters

Voter Suppression vs Voter Fraud

There have long been fierce debates on how many votes were suppressed and how many fraudulent votes were cast.

Leading answer: equally important · 51%
November 16, 2020 · 414 registered voters

Paris Climate Accord

One of the differences between candidates Trump and Biden was their opinion on the Paris Climate Accord: under Trump’s presidency the US left the accord, while under a Biden presidency, the US will re-enter the accord.

Leading answer: should rejoin and adhere to it · 56%
November 9, 2020 · 917 registered voters

Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

During the November 3rd, 2020 elections five states had measures on the ballot involving marijuana and all five of them passed.

Leading answer: legal and records expunged · 59%
November 2, 2020 · 1333 registered voters

Electoral College

Over 150 million people will have cast their vote by the evening of November 3rd.

Leading answer: popular vote through constitutional amendment · 41%
October 26, 2020 · 552 registered voters

Big Tech Monopolies

The largest tech companies are taking incoming fire from both sides of the aisle.

Leading answer: break up, if violating anti-trust · 32%
October 19, 2020 · 5743 registered voters

Role of the Media

We are all talking a lot about the role of the mainstream media in our public discourse.

Leading answer: Should distinguish fact and opinion better · 35%
October 11, 2020 · 358 registered voters

Early Voting

Early voting is underway in 20 states already, with another 20 to follow in the coming weeks.

Leading answer: early voting everywhere · 50%
October 3, 2020 · 201 registered voters

TikTok

TikTok is a popular app allowing users to share short videos.

Leading answer: audit to avoid data transfer · 44%
September 27, 2020 · 350 registered voters

Qualified Immunity

In March 2020, Louisville police conducted a no-knock raid on the home of Breonna Taylor who was asleep with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.

Leading answer: never · 48%
September 20, 2020 · 984 registered voters

Supreme Court Term Limits

On Friday September 19th, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away, bringing partisan politics surrounding Supreme Court nominations and confirmations back in the spotlight.

Leading answer: limits to be discussed · 33%
September 14, 2020 · 324 registered voters

Federal Forces in our Cities

ActiVote asked our users about deploying federal forces to US Cities, in response to some protests turning violent and subsequent looting and destruction of property.

Leading answer: On request only · 38%
September 7, 2020 · ActiVote users

CARES Act Renewal

In the past few weeks, ActiVote has asked for your opinion about renewing the CARES act.

August 31, 2020 · 346 registered voters

Voting during COVID

This week we asked about voting during a pandemic.

Leading answer: vote-by-mail · 52%
August 24, 2020 · 254 registered voters

Mandatory Mask Wearing

On August 20th, 2020 the Featured Question in the ActiVote app was about Mandatory Mask Wearing during COVID.

Leading answer: mandate and enforce · 49%
December 11, 2019 · ActiVote users

ActiVote Poll: Prescription Drug Prices

The US spends far more on healthcare per person than any other developed country in the world.

Leading answer: price controls · 36%
October 15, 2019 · ActiVote users

ActiVote Poll: Marginal Tax Rate

The “marginal tax rate” is the percentage of tax you pay over “brackets” of your income.

Leading answer: 45% for top 1% · 50%
October 1, 2019 · ActiVote users

ActiVote Poll: Federal Minimum Wage?

The Federal Minimum Wage was raised to $7.25 on July 24th, 2009.

Leading answer: $15.00 · 40%