“El-Sayed beat the favored candidate of the Democratic establishment, Congresswoman Haley Stevens. She’s thoroughly progressive but was the moderate compared with El-Sayed.” - National Review
Also: Will Americans take a radical turn? Democratic Socialists and the electoral landscape - World
“The Economist/YouGov poll, released Tuesday, was based on responses from 1,559 U.S. adults collected between July 25–27…. 54% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be legal, while 32% think it shouldn’t be.” - CPost
“…has the strong alliance between Christians and Donald Trump actually pushed some people out of church? We now have data to answer this question with a great deal of specificity among those who would be the future of the church” - Ryan Burge
“Americans’ average confidence in institutions has been trending downward since 1979…. Confidence finally showed significant improvement in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic…. However, average confidence quickly reverted and sunk further to 27% in 2022.” - Gallup
“Because we Americans enjoyed a national beginning which we have come to regard as foundational, and not a mere temporal launching pad, we have the ability in times of trouble to think our way back to our origins, and take from them not only a well-deserved rebuke, but also a strong dose of inspiration and redirection.” - L&L
“19% say founders would be pleased, compared with 54% in 2001… In measures since 2013, fewer in all parties say founders would be pleased… 69% say the U.S. has succeeded at least a fair amount in achieving founding ideals” - Gallup
“…according to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, 64% of Americans do not want to live in a primarily Christian nation. Instead, they prefer an America of many faiths without a Christian majority.” - RNS
“We know that the world we’re living in is falling apart. We know that the digital age we were born into isn’t working. And so we long. We’re nostalgic for eras that we truly know nothing about because we’re convinced that somewhere, left behind in the ’80s and ’90s, is the thing we’re missing.” - TGC
“While this is a science fiction scenario, and at least as far as the mainstream public goes, there is no indisputable evidence of aliens on Earth, this is an interesting question for Christians to raise. I find that Disclosure Day does offer a decent, but still lacking, Christian answer to this hypothetical, but… ” - Denison Forum
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“…in addition to sex between teenagers, majorities of 57% to 89% say seven behaviors are morally wrong: extramarital affairs, cloning humans, polygamy, suicide, cloning animals, pornography and changing one’s gender.” - Gallup
