Interesting Polling Info on Worry, LGBT, Government Threat

From Gallup, I have culled polls for friends and readers on the left, right, and indifferent.

Data on Worry

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Americans' emotional health has suffered since the 2016 election. The average percentage experiencing worry on any given day has increased 4.1 percentage points to 33.3% since early November. Higher levels of worry were first evident after Donald Trump's election in November, but they continued to rise in January and grew more in the first month of Trump's presidency.”

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Data on LGBT Identification

10 million American adults identify as LGBT (4.1%)

LGBT millennials up from 5.8% in 2012 to 7.3% in 2016

LGBT identification higher among women

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Data on Perceptions that Federal Government Is a Threat to Freedom

49% say government poses immediate threat to rights, freedoms

Republicans much more likely to see government as threat

Americans give very diverse explanations for these views

(September 21, 2015)