Polling

Connor Sandagata

Voter Attitudes Towards Clean Energy Tax Credits

March 24, 2025

As Congress pushes forward on the 2025 Budget Resolution, now in the Senate, a new nationwide survey from the Rainey Center offers key insights into voter preferences on energy development, tax credits, and fiscal tradeoffs. The findings reveal strong bipartisan support for expanding domestic energy production, a preference for targeted tax domestic incentives over broad electric vehicle subsidies, and a nuanced approach to clean energy investments.

Rainey Center

Keep America Competitive Voters Support a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

March 24, 2025

Rainey Center conducted polling to understand how voters view the carbon-border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), a policy that places a fee on dirty energy from countries with lower environmental standards than the United States. We collaborated with the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service to explore voter attitudes towards a carbon border adjustment mechanism.

Rainey Center

How Americans View Tech, Elections and Artificial Intelligence

March 24, 2025

We find that voters are concerned about AI, and want to see a more responsible path to development. Public support for cybersecurity requirements in AI is overwhelming, with 79% of voters favoring such measures and 65% finding arguments for mandatory security requirements more convincing than arguments against. Similarly, the public overwhelmingly favors export controls for selling powerful AI models. Sixty-three percent of voters support preventing foreign adversaries from accessing American AI and other critical technologies.