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Share approving use of U.S. military troops to protect American allies under attack by foreign nations, from the CES check-all-that-apply item asked in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 32% answered “Not selected” in CES: Approve troops to protect allies under attack, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Approve troops to protect allies under attack | Approve troops to protect allies under attack Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [Protect American allies under attack by foreign natio] Caveat: Check-all-that-apply: 'not selected' is not an explicit disapproval | identical | Selected → Approve; Not selected → Not selected |
| CES: Use of troops to protect allies under attack | Use of troops to protect allies under attack Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [Protect American allies under attack by foreign nations] Caveat: Check-all-that-apply: 'not selected' is not an explicit disapproval | identical | Selected → Approve; Not selected → Not selected |
| CES: Approve troops to protect allies under attack | Approve troops to protect allies under attack Would you approve of the use of U.S. military troops in order to ... ? (Please check all that apply) [Protect American allies under attack by foreign nations] Caveat: Check-all-that-apply: 'not selected' is not an explicit disapproval | identical | Selected → Approve; Not selected → Not selected |