Appendix B: Additional tables – Pew Research Center

• Whether there are clear solutions to most
big issues facing the country today • Have an IRA, 401(k) or similar retirement account • Satisfaction with the way things are going in this country today • Whether 2026 will be better than or worse than 2025 • Whether voting gives people like you some say about how government runs things • Preference for living in a community where houses are larger and farther apart or smaller and closer to each other • Whether your side has been winning more often than losing in political issues that matter to you over the last few years • Concern about the cost of housing • Whether the Trump administration’s tariff policies will have a positive or negative overall effect on the country • Participation in a political campaign, meeting, protest or rally in the last two years • Favorability of suspending all asylum applications from people seeking to live in the U.S. to escape violence or danger • Whether it’s acceptable or not for federal immigration officers to wear face coverings that hide their identities while working • Whether it matters or not which party wins control of Congress in the 2026 elections • Trump presidential approval • Whether Trump will be a successful or unsuccessful president in the long run • Ease or difficulty of someone obtaining an abortion in the area where you live • Whether Democratic congressional leaders this year should work with Trump to accomplish things or stand up to Trump on issues important to their voters • Whether police should be allowed to stop and search anyone who fits the general definition of a crime suspect • Whether obtaining an abortion in the area where you live should be harder, easier or about the same as it is now” • Favor or oppose pausing visa applications from people in 75 countries seeking to legally immigrate to the U.S. • Whether Trump’s economic policies have made economic conditions better, worse or have had not much of an effect” • Whether you find talking about politics with people you disagree with interesting and informative or stressful and frustrating • Confidence that Trump has the leadership skills needed to be president