2005 Harris Polls
| December 29 |
Sizeable Minorities Still Believe Saddam Hussein Had Strong Links to Al Qaeda, Helped Plan 9/11 and Had Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| December 27 |
Professional Football Continues to be the Nation’s Favorite Sport |
| December 21 |
National Parks, Crime-Fighting, Medicare and Social Security Top the List of Government Services Which Have Strongest Public Support |
| December 21 |
Majorities of Public Believe that Torture, "Rendition" and the Use of Secret Prison Camps Outside U.S. are Sometimes Justified |
| December 16 |
The Nature Conservancy, AARP and US Chamber of Commerce are among the most trusted Beltway Groups |
| December 14 |
The Religious and Other Beliefs of Americans 2005 |
| December 8 |
Nation’s Alienation Index Up Significantly as More Feel Powerless and Isolated |
| December 6 |
Majority of U.S. Adults Most Look Forward to Being with Friends and Family for the Holidays |
| December 1 |
Large Majorities of U.S. Adults Continue to Think That Big Companies, PACs, and Lobbyists Have Too Much Power and Influence in Washington |
| November 28 |
Attitudes to Nonprofits After Katrina and Tsunami are Generally Positive |
| November 23 |
Two-to-One Majority Believes Bush Administration "Generally Misleads Public on Current Issues to Achieve Their Own Ends" |
| November 17 |
President Bush’s Job Rating Falls Again, to 34 Percent Positive |
| November 15 |
U.S. Public Less Concerned about China’s Potential to Grow Economically than Militarily in the Next Ten Years |
| November 2 |
Majorities of U.S. Adults Think Oil Companies and Pharmaceuticals Should Be More Regulated |
| October 28 |
U.S. Adults Split as to the Job Their Member of Congress is Doing, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| October 25 |
Majority of U.S. Adults Feel Military Action in Iraq Was the Wrong Thing to Do, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| October 20 |
Different Religious Groups Have Very Different Attitudes To Some Health Policies and Programs |
| October 13 |
Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Agree Environmental Standards Cannot Be Too High and Continuing Improvements Must Be Made Regardless of Cost |
| October 7 |
No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, According to Harris Poll |
| October 5 |
U.S. and British Attitudes To the Job Police are Doing Differ, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| September 28 |
Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Remain Nation’s Favorite NFL Teams, According to Harris Poll |
| September 23 |
Modest Plurality of U.S. Public Approves Removal of Israeli Settlers From Gaza and A Very Modest Plurality Believes This Increases Chance of Peace |
| September 21 |
Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults See Possible Ratification of New Iraqi Constitution As a Step Forward |
| September 15 |
Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Say President Bush Has Done a Poor Job Handling the Hurricane Relief Efforts, According to New Harris Poll |
| September 14 |
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Israel and Japan Once Again Top the List of Countries Seen as Our Closest Allies, According to Harris Poll |
| September 8 |
Firemen, Doctors Scientists, Nurses and Teachers Top List as "Most Prestigious Occupations," According to Latest Harris Poll |
| August 31 |
Negative Attitudes to Labor Unions Show Little Change in Past Decade, According to New Harris Poll |
| August 25 |
Pessimism about Iraq Continues to Increase, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| August 24 |
Approval Ratings for President and Congressional Leaders Continue to Drop, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| August 18 |
Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Have Taken or Will Take a Vacation This Summer |
| August 16 |
The New York Yankees Remain the Country’s Most Popular Baseball Team Three Years in a Row, According to New Harris Poll |
| August 11 |
Surging Rental Market Contributes to Slouching Box Office |
| August 11 |
California and New York City Most Popular Places People Would Choose to Live, According to Harris Poll on States and Cities in the U.S. |
| August 10 |
For the 9th Year in a Row, Australia Tops the List of Favorite Countries for U.S. Adults to Visit if Cost is Not a Worry |
| August 3 |
Sony Tops the List in Annual "Best Brands" Survey for Sixth Consecutive Year |
| August 1 |
Majority of British Adults Agree Great Britain Will Be More of a Security Risk When It Hosts the 2012 Olympic Games |
| July 28 |
President Bush’s Job Approval Ratings on Issues Important to His Agenda Decline Slightly |
| July 26 |
U.S. Adults Paying Less Attention to the Events in Afghanistan than Those in Iraq |
| July 21 |
President Bush’s Rating on Handling of Iraq Continues to Erode |
| July 20 |
Americans Remain More Optimistic and Satisfied with Life than Europeans |
| July 15 |
Number of "Cyberchondriacs" – U.S. Adults Who Go Online for Health Information – Increases to Estimated 117 Million |
| July 13 |
Plurality of U.S. Adults Think President Bush Should Nominate a Moderate for the Next Supreme Court Justice |
| July 6 |
Nearly Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God |
| June 29 |
Majority Believes U.S. Law Enforcement is Using Its Expanded Investigative Powers Properly in Terrorist Cases But Over Two-Thirds Worry About Insufficient Civil Liberty Safeguards |
| June 22 |
Clear Majority of Adults Favor Bringing Most Troops Home from Iraq in Next Year, Says Latest U.S. Harris Poll |
| June 21 |
British and Other European Attitudes to the Recent UK Re-Election of Tony Blair |
| June 17 |
President’s Job Approval Ratings Continue to be Low |
| June 14 |
Cliff Huxtable from The Cosby Show Tops the List of TV Dads This Father’s Day, According to New Harris Poll |
| June 8 |
Harris Interactive and IMAS International Conduct Thirteen-Country Survey in Remembrance of 60th Anniversary of World War II |
| June 2 |
What the Public Doesn’t Know About Social Security, Private Pension Plans and Other Private Retirement Plans, According to New Harris Poll |
| May 25 |
Large Majorities of U.S. Adults Expect Gas and Heating Prices to Rise |
| May 19 |
Partisanship is Not What Most of the American Public Desires |
| May 18 |
President Bush’s Rating on Handling of Iraq Declines to Lowest Level, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| May 13 |
Why So Many People Oppose the President’s Social Security Proposals |
| May 12 |
Almost Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults – An Estimated 163 million – Go Online |
| May 6 |
Harris Poll Forecast for British Election Close to Result |
| May 6 |
Many U.S. Employees Have Negative Attitudes To Their Jobs, Employers and Top Managers |
| May 5 |
Political Attitudes of Voters for the UK’s Three Main Political Parties |
| May 4 |
Final Harris Poll Gives Labour a Five-Point Lead |
| May 3 |
Labour Enjoys a 13-Point Lead in Party Identification, But Tories More Likely to Vote |
| May 3 |
Harris Poll Gives Labour a Four-Point Lead among Those Most Likely to Vote in the Upcoming UK Election |
| April 28 |
Supermarkets, Computer Hardware and Software, Online Search Engines, and Packaged Goods Top the List of Industries Doing a Good Job for Their Consumers |
| April 27 |
Majorities of U.S. Adults Favor Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by More than Two-to-One |
| April 21 |
Withdrawal of Life Support Systems is More Common Than Public May Think |
| April 20 |
Two in Five U.S. Adults Believe that Torture of Prisoners by Americans Still Prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| April 15 |
The Terri Schiavo Case: Paradoxically Most U.S. Adults Approve of How Both Her Husband and Her Parents Behaved |
| April 14 |
President’s Job Ratings Fall to Lowest Point of His Presidency |
| April 13 |
Two-fifths of U.S. Adults Who Are Online Have Read Political Blogs |
| April 6 |
Flu Shots Effective Half the Time For Winter 2004/2005, According to New Poll of U.S. Adults |
| March 30 |
The Middle East Peace Process: Most People Give Negative Ratings to Bush, Sharon and Abbas |
| March 23 |
Modest Increase in Public’s Optimism About Situation in Iraq – But Pluralities Still Pessimistic |
| March 21 |
The Madness Continues |
| March 18 |
Of The Six Major Domestic Policy Positions of President, Social Security Is Most Unpopular |
| March 17 |
Overall Confidence in Leaders of Major Institutions Declines Slightly |
| March 10 |
Has the Obesity Epidemic Peaked? |
| March 9 |
Party Affiliation and Political Philosophy Show Little Change, According to National Harris Poll |
| March 3 |
Only a Small Majority Still Supports Roe v. Wade and Opposition is at its Highest in 20 Years |
| March 2 |
Michael Jordan Remains Nation’s Favorite Sports Star, Closely Followed by Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods |
| February 23 |
If the American Public Decided the Oscars, It Would be a Close Race Between "Ray" and "The Aviator" For Best Picture |
| February 18 |
Iraq, 9/11, Al Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What the Public Believes Now, According to Latest Harris Poll |
| February 17 |
Following Iraq Elections and State of the Union, President Bush’s Job Approval Rating Slips |
| February 9 |
Political Labels: Majorities of U.S. Adults Have a Sense of What Conservative, Liberal, Right Wing or Left Wing Means, But Many Do Not |
| February 3 |
Nearly Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Baseball Players Should Be Strongly Punished for Using Steroids |
| February 2 |
American Public Split on Who’s to Blame for National Hockey League Lockout, But More Fans Blame the Owners Than Players |
| January 27 |
Social Security and Energy Reform are the Public’s Top Agenda Items for the New Congress to Consider, According to The Harris Poll |
| January 25 |
Most U.S. Adults Feel Good About Nation’s Response to the Recent Tsunami |
| January 21 |
Little Optimism But Much Idealism for Iraq After the Elections |
| January 20 |
Modest Decline in Support for Bush’s Iraq Policies |
| January 14 |
American, Italian, French and Australian Wines are the Most Popular Among Americans |
| January 13 |
Fewer Americans Than Europeans Have Trust in the Media – Press, Radio and TV |
| January 7 |
Kofi Annan Rated Most Highly Trusted Leader by Europeans, But Not by Americans |
| January 7 |
Americans More Positive, Upbeat and Optimistic than Europeans |
| January 4 |
Tom Hanks is America’s Favorite Movie Star |
