Today, we are excited to introduce a new feature on Â鶹´«Ã½AV.com: the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vault. Each week, Â鶹´«Ã½AV's Senior Editor Lydia Saad will dig deep into Â鶹´«Ã½AV's polling archives to uncover data that tie in with a current event, historical milestone or just are of interest to our readers. These entries will be short and succinct, discussing one unique data point from the past.
One goal of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vault is to highlight trends from Â鶹´«Ã½AV's 80 years of polling that have relevance today. The first entry we are pulling from the Vault is about the vast majority of Americans who, in 1938, agreed with the idea that . Haven't we heard rhetoric like this recently?
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vault will also occasionally include direct quotes from the original news releases about the data from our founder, . Citing Dr. Â鶹´«Ã½AV is a way to show that sometimes history repeats itself, while other times, events of the past truly were isolated incidents. Â鶹´«Ã½AV has the longest trends in survey research in the U.S., and mining this treasure trove of history will be our mission every week.
Visit Â鶹´«Ã½AV.com in the coming weeks for new insights from the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Vault, including the birth of the unemployment rate, sanctions and Nelson Mandela, and high drama over the Supreme Court.
