Public Opinion

How To Reach Persuadable Audiences On Taxes

September 23, 2025 Porter McConnell, Hibba Meraay, Jenn Steinfeld, and Ian C. Grady, Inequality.org. Organize! Finance and the Economy, Public Opinion, Tax the rich, Taxes

Polling has shown over and over that Americans support higher taxes on the wealthy. But when they actually get to the ballot box, they simply aren’t voting in ways that would make that happen. As advocates for an economy that would lift all people up and end extreme wealth concentration, this disconnect can feel incredibly frustrating. We at the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute and Wonder for Good did some deep listening to better understand the disconnect between audiences’ support for change in the abstract and how they actually vote. Through in-depth, qualitative audience research and message testing, we identified strategies that consistently worked — and some that didn’t — in creating positive mindsets and support for reforming the tax code. Some of our findings may be surprising to advocates accustomed to messaging to base audiences.

More Americans Now Sympathize With Palestinians Than With Israelis

August 28, 2025 Juan Cole, Scheer Post. Educate! Israeli Occupation, Palestine, Public Opinion, United States

A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American public on the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. For the first time, the percentage of Americans who say they sympathize with Palestinians (28%) exceeds the percentage who sympathize with Israelis (22%)[!!!] Some one fourth (26%) of Americans say they are equally sympathetic to both. So 54% of Americans now sympathize with Palestinians, either primarily or equally with Israelis. Some 12% don’t like either one, and 13% don’t know. So of the Americans who have an opinion and feel knowledgeable, actually 67.5% either sympathize mainly with the Palestinians or equally with them and Israelis.

Declassified: CIA’s Covert Ukraine Invasion Plan

August 18, 2025 Kit Klarenberg, Scheer Post. Educate! Public Opinion, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

On August 7th, US polling giant Gallup published the remarkable results of a survey of Ukrainians. Public support for Kiev “fighting until victory” has plummeted to a record low “across all segments” of the population, “regardless of region or demographic group.” In a “nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022,” 69% of citizens “favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible.” Just 24% wish to keep fighting. However, vanishingly few believe the proxy war will end anytime soon. The reasons for Ukrainian pessimism on this point are unstated, but an obvious explanation is the intransigence of President Volodymyr Zelensky, encouraged by his overseas backers – Britain in particular.

Gamaan: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting The West About Iran

July 28, 2025 Sam Carlen and Iain Carlos, Mintpress News. Educate! Iran, Propaganda, Public Opinion, Wars and Militarism

The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN), an influential Dutch polling group cited by the New York Times, U.S. State Department and U.K. government, claims to capture the true views of everyday Iranians through unconventional online surveys. GAMAAN calls itself an “independent” research foundation, a label echoed by news outlets and think tanks covering the group’s headline-grabbing findings, which portray the Iranian public as far more secular and anti-government than data from organizations such as Gallup and Pew Research suggest.

MAGA Going To Israel For Propaganda Training

July 21, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Israel, MAGA, Propaganda, Public Opinion, Social Media, Zionism

The Israel foreign ministry will spend $86,000 to finance a tour of Israel for 16 Americans to get them to use their vast online influence to craft more positive images of a nation openly engaged in genocide. The effort is being made as Israel reacts to a significant turn in public opinion against it, especially by Western youth. Tel Aviv realizes its usual methods of propaganda — and apparently its own inhouse troll army — are no longer working as they once did. The daily Haaretz reported: Foreign Ministry officials say the tour delivers significant media, advocacy, and diplomatic benefits – and represents a strategic shift, as traditional outreach is no longer sufficient to shape public opinion. They aim to leverage the massive followings of young social media influencers to bolster Israel’s standing in the U.S.

Revulsion For Israel Surges Worldwide, New Survey Finds

June 5, 2025 Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada. Educate! Israel, Palestine, Public Opinion, War crimes

Twenty months into its livestreamed and accelerating genocide in Gaza, it would hardly be controversial to conclude that Israel is one of the world’s most hated countries. But a new global survey from the US-based Pew Research Center indicates just how unpopular it has become, especially in the North American and European states where Tel Aviv has always drawn its main sources of financial, military and political support. “In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed, around half of adults or more have an unfavorable view of Israel,” Pew reported on 3 June. “Around three-quarters or more hold this view in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.”

Israel’s Other Defeat

April 9, 2024 Ramzy Baroud, Consortium News. Educate! Al-Aqsa Flood, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elections, Israel, Palestine, Public Opinion, Wars and Militarism

Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that the prime minister is the man who could win this supposedly existential fight. But Netanyahu’s war remains unwinnable simply because liberation wars, often conducted through guerrilla warfare tactics, are far more complicated than traditional combat. Nearly six months after the Israeli attack on Gaza, it has become clear that Palestinian resistance groups are durable and well-prepared for a much longer fight.

It Isn’t Netanyahu Who Is Acting Against The Will Of His People

March 17, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Benjamin Netanyahu, Democracy, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Public Opinion, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

On March 14, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, long one of Israel’s most zealous supporters on Capitol Hill, made international headlines when he called for Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster in new elections. In a speech in the Senate, Schumer said, “Israel is a democracy. Five months into this conflict it is clear that Israelis need to take stock of the situation and ask, must we change course. At this critical juncture I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.”

Baltimore’s Media Nightmare And The Billionairification Of News

February 22, 2024 Justine Barron, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Baltimore, Billionaires, Maryland, Media, Public Opinion

David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city’s media (AP, 1/15/24). Sinclair is a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company and one of the largest owners of television stations in the country. The company has been criticized for its conservative and not always accurate TV news coverage (Salon, 7/21/17; New Yorker, 10/15/18). In 2018, the company compelled local TV news anchors around the country to read on air the same copy parroting President Donald Trump’s claims about “fake news” (Deadspin, 3/31/18).

Something Has Snapped

October 29, 2023 Craig Murray, Consortium News. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Media, Public Opinion

The Zionist grip on the political and media class is stark. Ordinary citizens are left with feelings ranging from rage to deep sorrow, but with a feeling of helplessness at having no power and no genuine voice in the country where they live. The bought-and-paid-for politicians intone “Israel’s right to self-defence” as justifying the slaughter of any number of Palestinian children. They pretend they do not see the obvious genocide which is happening before their eyes. The Guardian’s framing of the death of hundreds, probably thousands, of young children Friday night, as destruction of Hamas tunnels, ought to be astonishing. Sadly it is entirely unsurprising.

Atlanta: We Do Not Need A School For Assassins

May 19, 2023 Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Atlanta, Cop City, Police, Public Opinion

Atlanta, Georgia — Hundreds of Atlantans spoke out against the proposed authorization of $33.5 million taxpayer dollars for the Atlanta Police Foundation to fund the construction of ‘Cop City’ during the public comment section at city council on Monday. The council is expected to vote on the funding on June 5. The public comment lasted over seven hours and the nearly 300 community members who had the opportunity to speak were unanimous in their opposition to ‘Cop City’, which if built, would be an 85-acre urban warfare police training compound in the South River Forest in DeKalb County, Georgia.

West Asia Mistrusts Washington’s ‘Commitment’ To Democracy

April 10, 2023 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Democracy, Public Opinion, US Imperialism, Western Asia

An overwhelming majority of citizens in 13 countries across West Asia and North Africa say they do not trust US claims about “encouraging the development of democracy” or about “improving the economic lot of people,” according to a poll released on 7 April by US analytics and advisory company Gallup. Respondents in Iran, Tunisia, Palestine, and Afghanistan were the most distrustful about Washington’s ‘democratic’ intentions. Only in Kuwait and Morocco did the negative perception of Washington drop below 50 percent of respondents. Washington’s commitment to self-determination also faces great skepticism among adults in the nations surveyed, as 35 to 80 percent of respondents agree that the US does not allow people in their region to fashion their own political future.

Majority Of Australians Oppose US War On China

March 14, 2023 Peter Cronau, Consortium News. Educate! Australia, China, New Cold War, Public Opinion, Wars and Militarism

A majority of Australians (51 percent) want Australia to adopt a policy of neutrality when it comes to considering a U.S. war against China, according to the latest polling by the Lowy Institute think tank. The poll, conducted in 2022, reinforces earlier polling by the Lowy Institute that found most Australians, while happy to support military involvement in humanitarian interventions or peacekeeping, do not want the country to support U.S. military action in a war against China – and the number of Australians saying this is increasing each year polled (2020 63 percent, up from 2013 60 percent). This runs contrary to mainstream media representations of such polling

What Polls About A Ukraine ‘No-Fly Zone’ Really Tell Us

March 15, 2022 David W. Moore, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. Educate! Media, NATO, Public Opinion, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Last week, Reuters/Ipsos reported on a poll that found some 74% of Americans said the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine. This was a surprising result, because there was strong bipartisan opposition in Congress to such an action. Typically, public opinion―especially on foreign policy―tends to reflect the prevailing political consensus. That poll announcement was followed this week from a report from YouGov (3/9/22) about three polls it had recently conducted―two for the Economist (2/6/22–3/1/22 and 3/5–8/22), and one for US News (3/7–9/22). The earliest poll found 45% of Americans saying it was a “good idea” for the US to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, with 20% saying it was a “bad idea.” The second poll showed a smaller margin of support, 40% to 30%.

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