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What Do Americans Think About Tariffs?
This was originally published on ActiVote.In October 2025, AllSides and ActiVote collaborated on a survey on tariffs with 9 questions, each with 5 possible answers. The poll was processed using ActiVote’s standard polling methodology (details in appendix A). The average sample size was 609 per question (ranging from a minimum of 486 to a maximum of 703) leading to an expected polling error of about 4.0%. We invite you to participate in this survey if you have not already.For each of the questions we have looked at the overall opinion of all survey takers as well as the split based on political leanings, distinguishing between the left, moderate left, center, moderate right and the right, each representing 20% of the overall population.A few clear trends are visible from the survey:The left is much less enamored with tariffs than the right.A majority believes that tariffs should be a tool in the economic toolbox.A majority believes that we should balance keeping prices low with pro…