Americans genuinely disagree about guns, abortion, immigration and taxes, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. But on a narrow set of questions about how power and money should work, support crosses party lines by margins almost unheard of in modern polling.
Every figure below names its poll. Where a commonly cited number could not be traced to a source, it appears in the second section instead — not here.
Several reform proposals circulate with precise-sounding support figures attached. We went looking for the underlying polls and could not find them. They may well be popular — we simply cannot state a number.
This section exists because it would have been easy to publish five confident percentages and much harder for anyone to check them. On a site whose entire argument is "check the receipts," inventing a poll number would be the fastest possible way to lose.
Everything else on this site documents what happened. This page is the only one that points at what could be done about it — and deliberately limits itself to measures that already command majorities among Republicans, Democrats and independents alike.
That matters for a practical reason. Reforms that poll at 70–86% do not fail for lack of public support. They fail because the people who would have to enact them are the people they would constrain. That is a structural problem, not a partisan one, and it has persisted across administrations of both parties.
If you arrived here from a section documenting one administration and concluded this is a site about one man, this page is the correction. The record happens to be current. The problem is older and larger.