USA Today Monday
Oct 26, 2026 · 2 hr · 26 segments
Monday - Friday Noon - 2pm
Oct 26, 2026 · 2 hr · 26 segments
Monday - Friday Noon - 2pm
Our first article, as always from the first page of USA Today, is titled Nation Divided Over Its Values.
The byline belongs to Susan Page.
Dateline Washington.
As crucial midterm elections loom, a national survey underscores the clashing priorities and partisan distrust that define today's political landscape.
Republicans told the Gallup slash With Honor poll that the value of the United States needs most now was patriotism.
Democrats ranked it last from a list of 12.
Democrats said the United States needed equality most.
Republicans put it next to last.
Independents chose honesty.
Most Americans were skeptical that the nation's fundamental values, from freedom to fairness, were widely shared across party and other lines.
Many Republican and Democrat view the other side as the enemy, says Rye Barcott, CEO and co-founder of With Honor.
It's a much more difficult place to start to bring some trust.
The survey of just over 3,000 adults in Gallup Poll, probably based, probability-based panel, taken online May 12-22 as a margin of error plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
Results were released for USA Today on October 26 by Gallup and with Honor, a nonpartisan group that recruits and supports military veterans for elective office and encourages bipartisanship in Congress.
Finding spotlight the size of that task, nearly 1 in 4, or 24%, see most Americans today shared none of a dozen widely revered values.
That said, almost 8 in 10 said it was more important to respect different values than to share the same ones.
Respecting one another's values is kind of a part of the deal, said Helene Mayes, a Gallup researcher who worked on the project, calling it part of a pluralistic society.
Three of four, 76%, said at least one value was shared by Americans regardless of political background, though there was little consensus about which one that might be.
Most frequently cited was freedom, chosen by 38%.
Least often was humility, chosen by 10%.
Divisions are of politics, of course.
But the inclination to see the other side as lacking basic principles, even as being a danger to democracy, has grown over the past decade, studies have found.
The assumption that the other side is acting in good faith has been eroded by the January 6th assault on the Capitol, attacks on legitimacy of elections, allegations of weaponization of government power, and more.
The number of Republicans describing Democrats as more immoral than other Americans rose from 47% in 2016 to 72% in 2022, Pew Research Center found.
Among Democrats, the negative view of Republicans grew from 35% to 63%.
Our first article, as always from the first page of USA Today, is titled Nation Divided Over Its Values.
The byline belongs to Susan Page.
Dateline Washington.
As crucial midterm elections loom, a national survey underscores the clashing priorities and partisan distrust that define today's political landscape.
Republicans told the Gallup slash With Honor poll that the value of the United States needs most now was patriotism.
Democrats ranked it last from a list of 12.
Democrats said the United States needed equality most.
Republicans put it next to last.
Independents chose honesty.
Most Americans were skeptical that the nation's fundamental values, from freedom to fairness, were widely shared across party and other lines.
Many Republican and Democrat view the other side as the enemy, says Rye Barcott, CEO and co-founder of With Honor.
It's a much more difficult place to start to bring some trust.
The survey of just over 3,000 adults in Gallup Poll, probably based, probability-based panel, taken online May 12-22 as a margin of error plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
Results were released for USA Today on October 26 by Gallup and with Honor, a nonpartisan group that recruits and supports military veterans for elective office and encourages bipartisanship in Congress.
Finding spotlight the size of that task, nearly 1 in 4, or 24%, see most Americans today shared none of a dozen widely revered values.
That said, almost 8 in 10 said it was more important to respect different values than to share the same ones.
Respecting one another's values is kind of a part of the deal, said Helene Mayes, a Gallup researcher who worked on the project, calling it part of a pluralistic society.
Three of four, 76%, said at least one value was shared by Americans regardless of political background, though there was little consensus about which one that might be.
Most frequently cited was freedom, chosen by 38%.
Least often was humility, chosen by 10%.
Divisions are of politics, of course.
But the inclination to see the other side as lacking basic principles, even as being a danger to democracy, has grown over the past decade, studies have found.
The assumption that the other side is acting in good faith has been eroded by the January 6th assault on the Capitol, attacks on legitimacy of elections, allegations of weaponization of government power, and more.
The number of Republicans describing Democrats as more immoral than other Americans rose from 47% in 2016 to 72% in 2022, Pew Research Center found.
Among Democrats, the negative view of Republicans grew from 35% to 63%.
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