mixed-mode probability
Marquette Law School Poll
Marquette Law School Poll: August 2026 Wisconsin Statewide Poll · Aug 12–20, 2026 · US: Wisconsin
Methodology
- Pollster
- Marquette Law School Poll academic
- Sponsor
- Marquette University Law School
- Fielded
- Aug 12–20, 2026
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 891
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Panel
- SSRS Opinion Panel (ABS-recruited) + L2 registration-based sample
- Mode
- mixed-mode (online panel + live-interviewer telephone; 797 web / 94 phone)
- Margin of error
- +/-4.0 (registered voters); +/-4.5 (likely voters); +/-5.7 (half-sample items, including this one)
- Weighting
- Raked to Wisconsin registered-voter benchmarks: age, education, sex by marital status, leaned party ID, region by L2 party, 2024 vote mode by L2 party.
- Geography
- US: Wisconsin
- Base notes
- The transgender-athletes item was asked of a random half-sample (n=445 of 891 registered voters; MOE +/-5.7 for half-sample items). Likely voters (n=738; half-sample 346) gave nearly identical answers and are not entered separately.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and Total from Marquette's own RV topline; party rows from its RV crosstabs page. Marquette's methodology statement gives a design effect of 1.23 while the SSRS report appended to it gives 1.51: an inconsistency in Marquette's own materials, recorded as found.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
Sportsforced choice
transgender athletes and team eligibility
Do you think transgender athletes should be able to play on sports teams that match their current gender identity, or should they only be allowed to play on sports teams that match their birth gender?
Only on teams that match birth gender
76%
Able to play on teams that match identity
22%
Don't know
1%
Refused
1%
Wording notes: uses 'birth gender' | half-sample item
neutral — Both alternatives are stated without loaded terms.
Subgroup figures (8)