What is Similarity Hub?

Politicians, the media, and social media users face incentives to paint a divided picture of America, making us forget how united we really are.

Similarity Hub from AllSides and More Like US helps solve this problem by collecting public opinion data that corrects political misperceptions, highlights common ground, and helps people feel calmer and more united.

Explore the Full Dataset

Here, you can browse recent survey data on common ground among U.S. adults. Learn more about our data inclusion criteria below.

Survey Statement % Agree % R % D % I Source Topic Year
"are in favor of a federal law requiring expanded background checks for gun buyers between 18 and 21 years of age." All: 79% Gun Control and Gun Rights 2022
"think gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should be legal." All: 79% LGBTQ Issues 2021
"favor requiring all voters to provide photo identification at their voting place in order to vote." All: 79% R: 97% D: 53% I: 84% Elections 2022
"think the spread of extremist viewpoints on the internet bears a great deal or a fair amount of the blame for mass shootings that have occurred in the United States in recent years." All: 79% Gun Control and Gun Rights 2019
"rate Facebook as poor or not so good at handling misinformation on its social media platform." All: 79% R: 84% D: 81% I: 77% Facts and Fact Checking 2021
"say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues." All: 79% R: 91% D: 69% Media Bias 2020
"are very or somewhat sympathetic toward people from other countries who travel to the U.S. border in an attempt to enter the U.S." All: 78% Immigration 2023
"agree strongly or somewhat that borrowers should have their student debt canceled if a college or university is found to have misrepresented information about its programs of study and student outcomes." All: 78% Education 2022
"say there is too little attention paid to important issues facing the country." All: 78% R: 81% D: 75% Polarization 2023
"are in favor of allowing courts to temporarily prevent people who are considered a danger to themselves or others, but have not been convicted of a crime, from owning a gun." All: 78% Gun Control and Gun Rights 2022
"agree strongly or somewhat that public four-year colleges and universities contribute to a strong American workforce." All: 78% Education 2022
"favor early voting, which gives all voters the chance to cast their ballot prior to Election Day." All: 78% R: 60% D: 95% I: 79% Elections 2022
"think strengthening policies to prevent immigrants from overstaying their visas should be of high or moderate priority for the federal government." All: 78% Immigration 2023
"think too little attention is paid to important issues facing the country." All: 78% Politics 2023
"think it should be a federal law or policy that Individuals can practice any religion without government restriction." All: 78% Religion and Faith 2022
"strongly or somewhat favor making early, in-person voting available to voters for at least two weeks prior to Election Day." All: 78% Elections 2021
"think misinformation increases hate crimes." All: 77% R: 72% D: 85% I: 66% Facts and Fact Checking 2022
"say the economic system in this country unfairly favors powerful interests rather than being generally fair for most Americans." All: 77% R: 68% D: 85% Economy and Jobs 2023
"favor enacting a 30-day waiting period for all gun sales." All: 77% Gun Control and Gun Rights 2022
"think that during political elections, churches and other houses of worship should not come out in favor of one candidate over another." All: 77% Religion and Faith 2022

Percent of Republicans agreeing with statement.**

Percent of Democrats agreeing with statement.**

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*Data older than 5 years may not accurately reflect current public opinion. Similarity Hub will not feature this data on other pages.

**%R indicates the percentage of Republicans or Republicans and Republican-leaners agreeing with the statement. %D indicates the percentage of Democrats or Democrats and Democrat-leaners agreeing with the statement.

What Similarity Hub Does and Doesn’t Include


Similarity Hub prioritizes and highlights data about common ground; not all data fits that purpose. Thus, AllSides and More Like US created criteria on what we will and won’t include. 


Similarity Hub includes…

  • Information that corrects damaging political misperceptions and/or is useful for bipartisan policy
  • Survey data in which at least 70% of respondents agree, or in which at least 50% of Democratic-leaning respondents and 50% of Republican-leaning respondents agree


Similarity Hub does NOT include…

  • Survey questions that make a value judgment about a specific identity group of people (This could include negative judgments, like “China has a negative impact on the world,” or positive judgments, like “Mexicans are hard workers.”)
  • Survey questions based on loaded questions and/or unfounded assumptions (For instance, people who "disagree that individual action makes no difference in reducing climate change" could include those who support collective climate action and those who disbelieve in climate change.)
  • Data from surveys likely biased by recent events (Such as data about the Israel-Hamas War collected during a turning point in the war, which may vary significantly from other surveys.)