HRC/Hart Research Associates Equality Act survey · Mar 2021 – Mar 15, 2021 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Hart Research Associates partisan_d
- Sponsor
- Human Rights Campaign
- Commissioned by
- Human Rights Campaign
- Fielded
- Mar 2021 – Mar 15, 2021
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,005
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Mode
- online
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed in the retrieved press release
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. topline (70% support), Republican support (50%) and the age breaks on the favorability-toward-representatives item read from the HRC press release; the linked polling memo PDF was not retrieved, so exact field dates (recorded at month precision), the full wording, and the margin of error are missing. This is an advocacy-sponsored poll by a Democratic firm and should be weighted accordingly. Gallup's Frank Newport noted that this item describes the bill's provisions at length, which produces higher support than short bill-name items.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
the Equality Act described by its provisions
Would you support or oppose amending federal civil rights law to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity under the Equality Act?
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed from the HRC press release's description ('amending federal civil rights law to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity under the Equality Act'); the full item, which Gallup describes as a detailed summary covering employment, housing, credit, education, jury service and public accommodations, was not retrieved
Wording notes: advocacy-sponsored | describes the bill's benefits at length before asking, which measurably raises support relative to bill-name-only items such as Marist's 63%
tilts_affirming — a long descriptive preamble supplied by the bill's leading advocacy organization frames the measure in the terms its supporters use; the 70% result sits well above general-population readings of the same bill by name
Subgroup figures (1)
favorability toward a representative who votes for the Equality Act
Would you feel more favorable or less favorable toward your representative in Congress if they voted for the Equality Act?
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed from the HRC press release's description of the item
Wording notes: advocacy-sponsored vote-effect framing
tilts_affirming — question order places it after a sponsor-written description of the bill's benefits
Subgroup figures (4)