Thursday, October 26, 2017

Opinion Shifts in Favor of Athletes’ Anthem Protests in New Poll

Americans are evenly split on whether professional sports leagues should require athletes to stand for the national anthem, according to a new national survey.

In an HBO Real Sports/Marist poll, conducted Oct. 15-17 by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion with funding from the HBO series "real Sports," 51 percent of respondents opposed rules that would require players to stand, compared with 47 percent who supported such calls.

The 4-point difference is within the poll's reported margins of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points among all respondents and plus or minus 3.7 percentage points among self-described football fans, who made up 65 percent of the overall sample (PDF)

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