2008 Harris Polls
| December 17 |
Majorities of Adults in Five Largest European Countries and the U.S. Believe United Nations Does More Good Than Harm |
| December 11 |
Consumer Reports, American Red Cross and AARP Most Trusted Inside the Beltway |
| December 10 |
More Americans Believe in the Devil, Hell and Angels than in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution |
| December 9 |
Optimistic Expectation For Change, Only a Third of the Public Thinks Obama Will be too Liberal, Most People Expect Less Gridlock |
| December 4 |
Leisure Time Plummets 20% in 2008 - Hits New Low |
| December 3 |
More Regulation for Banks |
| December 2 |
Attitudes on Economy Remain Bleak; Spending Over Next Six Months Unlikely on Most Large Items, Entertainment and Dining Out |
| November 24 |
Money, Trouble Sleeping and Over-scheduling Major Hassles for Americans |
| November 20 |
More Than Two In Five Toy Purchasers Spending Less on Toys This Holiday Season |
| November 18 |
More People Alienated Now than at any Time Since 1999 |
| November 17 |
Four Out of Five Adults Now Use the Internet |
| November 10 |
Significant Minority Still Believe that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction When U.S. Invaded |
| November 6 |
What Are Moral Values? |
| November 4 |
Obama Headed For Decisive Victory |
| October 30 |
Most Republicans See Media Bias; Most Democrats See Fair Media Coverage |
| October 29 |
Obama’s 6 Point Lead Holds Steady |
| October 28 |
Even With the Economic Difficulties, Two-Thirds of Americans Are Very Satisfied With the Life They Lead |
| October 28 |
Health Insurance Companies Get the Most Blame for Increasing Cost of Health Care |
| October 27 |
Americans, Both Young and Old, Believe Government Needs Better Moral Leadership |
| October 24 |
The Blame Game: Congress, Wall Street, Home Buyers and Big Business Top Americans List for Economic and Financial Crisis |
| October 23 |
Economy Most Important Issue, And Still Rising |
| October 22 |
Confidence in Respective Presidents Ability to Handle Financial Crisis |
| October 21 |
Obama Holds Six Point Lead Among Likely Voters |
| October 20 |
Most Americans Want State Judges To Be Elected |
| October 14 |
Dallas Cowboys Not Only Favorite Team, But Also Named Likely To Win Super Bowl |
| October 1 |
McCain Leads on Defense/Homeland Security, Foreign Policy, Obama Leads on Environment, Most Domestic Issues, Economy |
| September 29 |
The U.S. Needs the World and The World Needs the U.S. |
| September 25 |
Obama and McCain Still Neck and Neck |
| September 25 |
Europeans Believe Barack Obama is Best Able to Protect EU’s Interests from Russia While Americans Think John McCain is Better |
| September 24 |
Ageism May be a Bigger Barrier in Presidential Election than Racism (or Sexism) |
| September 24 |
Economy Now the Most Important Issue for Americans by a Wide Margin |
| September 23 |
Americans May Be Familiar with Some International Organizations, but Majorities Do Not Have a Great Deal of Confidence in Any of Them |
| September 22 |
Two-Thirds of Americans Have a Library Card |
| September 10 |
Rebate Checks: No Economic Stimulus |
| September 9 |
Both McCain and Obama Earn Better Marks on the Economy than President Bush |
| September 4 |
Americans Lack Confidence in US Afghanistan Policy |
| September 3 |
Are Things in Iraq Better? One-Third of Americans Think So |
| August 29 |
Five Largest European Countries and USA Believe Their Governments Are To Blame for Bad Economic Times |
| August 20 |
Poll Paradox: Americans Believe Country Is on Wrong Track |
| August 14 |
It’s The Economy…Ratings of President, Congress Near Their Lowest Points Ever |
| August 12 |
Obama Maintains Eight Point Lead over McCain Among Registered Voters |
| August 7 |
Big Changes in Public Attitudes Toward Different Industries Since Last Year |
| August 5 |
Prestige Paradox: High Pay Doesn’t Necessarily Equal High Prestige |
| July 30 |
Economic Growth or the Environment? When Cornered, Americans Believe Economic Growth is More Important |
| July 29 |
Number of "Cyberchondriacs" – Adults Going Online for Health Information – Has Plateaued or Declined |
| July 28 |
Despite Economic Troubles, Many U.S. and Canadian Adults Are Taking a Summer Vacation This Year |
| July 24 |
Attitudes on Economy Remain Bleak |
| July 23 |
Hope Arises as European and American Homeowners Expect the Value of Their Property to Increase |
| July 22 |
La Dolce Vita! Italy Most Popular Vacation Destination |
| July 21 |
Obama Leads McCain by Nine Points Among Registered Voters |
| July 16 |
Americans and Canadians Agree: Tiger is Great! |
| July 15 |
Millions Believe Personal Medical Information Has Been Lost or Stolen |
| July 14 |
Bases Loaded: Yankees, Braves and Red Sox Take Top Honors as America’s Favorite Baseball Teams for Second Year in a Row! |
| July 10 |
Partisanship and Hostility Cast a Shadow over U.S. and Canadian Capitals |
| July 7 |
Health Care Systems in Ten Developed Countries: The U.S. System Is Most Unpopular and Dutch System the Most Popular |
| July 1 |
Yum! Steaks or Burgers? Many Americans Fire up the Grill All Year Round |
| June 30 |
Majority of Americans and Half of Canadians Would Not Attend 2008 Summer Olympics in China |
| June 26 |
Second Amendment Supreme Court Ruling Matches With Public Opinion From The Harris Poll |
| June 26 |
How Sweet It Is…Or Is It? |
| June 24 |
Americans Give Government Economic Policies and Job Market a Bad Rating |
| June 20 |
Obama’s Lead over McCain Widens to Double Digits |
| June 19 |
Obama Opts Out, Harris Poll/BYU Study Shows Public Favors Small Donations |
| June 19 |
The Environment…Are We Doing All We Can? |
| June 17 |
Harris Poll/BYU Study Shows Not Much Voter Interest in Candidates Rejecting Public Financing |
| June 12 |
America’s Sour Mood: Ratings of Bush, Cheney, Rice and Congress Sink to Worst Levels Ever |
| June 3 |
Does the Second Amendment Provide the Right to Bear Arms? U.S. Adults Think So |
| June 2 |
Are Public Schools Flunking or Passing? |
| May 29 |
Who Do I Vote For? Independents Divided |
| May 23 |
President Bush and Iraq Approval Ratings Move Downward for First Time in Months |
| May 22 |
Adults Worldwide Say "Tax the Rich!" |
| May 21 |
Should World Leaders Skip the Olympics? |
| May 13 |
Blu-ray Wins the Format Battle, but Consumers Don’t Buy it |
| May 7 |
For Mother’s Day: June Cleaver is the Television Mom Americans Would Have Liked to Have Growing Up |
| May 6 |
Flu Vaccine Less Effective in Winter 2007/2008 than in Previous Winters |
| May 5 |
Americans Divided Over Whether Rebate Checks Will Stimulate the Economy |
| May 1 |
All Three Presidential Candidates Receive Similarly Mediocre Ratings on Their Potential to Handle the Economy |
| April 30 |
Clinton/McCain Race is Very Close among Registered Voters, While Obama Edges Ahead of McCain |
| April 29 |
Is Former President Bill Clinton More of an Asset or a Liability to Senator Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign? |
| April 23 |
Further Details about Why Americans Who are More Religious Are Happier |
| April 22 |
Americans Who Are Religious and Older People Are Happier |
| April 21 |
For Earth Day: Americans Think All Three Presidential Candidates would do a Better Job Handling the Environment Than President Bush Has Done |
| April 18 |
For Earth Day: Two-thirds of Americans Believe Humans are Contributing to Increased Temperatures |
| April 17 |
Half of Americans Believe Celebrities Make Little or No Positive Difference on Issues and Causes They Promote |
| April 15 |
Americans and Europeans Have Very Little Confidence in the Abilities of Their Governments and Central Banks to Deal with Their Economic Problems |
| April 14 |
Majorities Prefer $1 Bills to Coins and Oppose Abolition of the Penny |
| April 10 |
Majority Uncomfortable with Websites Customizing Content Based Visitors Personal Profiles |
| April 9 |
Key Indicators of National Mood Fall to New Lows |
| April 8 |
The Bible is America’s Favorite Book Followed by Gone with the Wind |
| April 7 |
Over One-Third of Americans Read More Than Ten Books in Typical Year |
| April 4 |
Cell Phone Usage Continues to Increase |
| April 3 |
Americans Are Increasingly Gloomy About the Economy and Their Own Finances |
| April 2 |
2-to-1 Majority of Democrats Believes Change is More Important Than Experience |
| April 1 |
Both Clinton and Obama Ahead of McCain among Registered Voters |
| March 26 |
Duke Returns to Top Spot and is Favorite College Basketball |
| March 25 |
American’s Feelings Towards Iraq War Best in Months |
| March 20 |
Strong Majorities in France, Italy, and Spain as well as Half of British Adults Believe EU Needs High Profile Figure |
| March 19 |
Impact of Financial Crisis Different for Five Largest European Countries and the U.S. |
| March 18 |
Over Three in Five Americans Believe in Death Penalty |
| March 12 |
Half of Americans Pessimistic About Economy of Their Region over Next Six Months |
| March 11 |
Very Large Majorities Of Americans Believe Big Companies, PACs, Political Lobbyists and the News Media Have Too Much Power and Influence in D.C. |
| March 10 |
More Than Half of Americans Never Read Political Blogs |
| March 6 |
Over Half of Americans Say They Tend Not to Trust the Press |
| March 5 |
Cigarette Smoking Drops to Lowest Level in 25 Year Trend |
| February 28 |
Big Drop in Confidence in Leaders of Major Institutions |
| February 26 |
Adults in Five Largest European Countries and the U.S. Supportive of Renewable Energy, But Unwilling to Pay Much More for It |
| February 21 |
Frankly My Dear, The Force is With Them as Gone With the Wind and Star Wars are the Top Two All Time Favorite Movies |
| February 20 |
Majorities in Five European Countries and the U.S. Believe Russia is an Unreliable Energy Supplier |
| February 19 |
Over Two-Thirds of Americans Believe Country Is on Wrong Track While Half Believe Same About Their State |
| February 14 |
President, Vice President and Congress Continue to Have Very Low Approval Ratings |
| February 13 |
Ronald Reagan Seen as Best President since World War II and George W. Bush as the Worst |
| February 12 |
Three in Ten Americans with a Tattoo Say Having One Makes Them Feel Sexier |
| February 7 |
Conservative Talk Show Hosts Top Lists of Both Favorite and Least Favorite News and Current Affairs Personalities |
| February 5 |
Professional Football Still America’s Favorite Sport |
| January 31 |
Harris Poll/BYU Study Finds More People would be Angry or Upset if Mitt Romney was President than if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton was President Using Experimental Survey Design to Gauge Underlying Voter Sentiments |
| January 30 |
Majorities in Four European Countries and the U.S. Believe Economy will be Worse in 2008 |
| January 25 |
State of the Union Rated Poorly by 4 out of 5 Americans |
| January 21 |
Just Under Three in Five Americans Believe Juries Can Be Fair and Impartial All or Most of the Time |
| January 17 |
2007 Harris Polls Show Democrats Maintain Their Nine Point Lead Over Republicans |
| January 15 |
Denzel Washington Remains America’s Favorite Movie Star |
| January 14 |
Ellen DeGeneres is New Favorite TV Personality as Oprah Slips to Number Two |
| January 10 |
Pluralities of Americans View Most Middle Eastern and Muslim States as Neither Friends nor Enemies |
| January 9 |
The Words "Moral Values" Mean Very Different Things to the Public and to Pundits |
| January 7 |
More than Half of Democrats and Independents Feel the Economy Will Get Worse in 2008 |
| January 3 |
President Bush Gets Poor Marks on Handling of Israeli/Palestinian Issue and Afghanistan |
| January 2 |
Even After Romney’s "Mormon Speech", Many Americans Still Uncomfortable Voting for a Mormon |
