American Public Opinion On Religious Discrimination

If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be Jewish, would you vote for that person? (Gallup, April 17-30, 2019).

	Yes	No
2019	93%	7%
2015	91%	7%
2012	82%	6%
2011	92%	7%
2007	91%	6%
2003	89%	8%
1999	92%	6%
1987	89%	6%
1983	88%	7%
1978	82%	12%
1969	86%	8%
1967	82%	13%
1965	80%	15%
1963	77%	17%
1961	68%	23%
1959	72%	22%
1958	63%	29%
1937	46%	47%

There is some/a lot of discrimination against... (Pew, March 2019)

	Jews		Muslims		Evangelical Christians
	2016	2019	2016	2019	2016	2019
Some	44%	64%	25%	26%	42%	50%
A lot	13%	24%	57%	56%	15%	18%
Total	57%	88%	82%	82%	57%	68%

Overall, how does being Jewish affect people’s ability to get ahead in our country these days? (Pew, January 22-February 5, 2019)

	White	Black	Hispanic
Helps a lot	5%	19%	10%
Helps a little	15%	19%	17%
Hurts a little	17%	15%	14%
Hurts a lot	3%	5%	7%
Neither helps nor hurts	59%	45%	51%
No answer	-	2%	2%