As part of Every Thing, our largest onsite discussion, we maintain a list of all "things" - 157,000 individual topics extracted from Wikidata. We define a "thing" as a common (as opposed to proper) noun, with no special characters, a description, and not falling into a handful of categories too large or specialized to be meaningful (mineral, disease, mouse genome, etc). This is a highly inclusive list, as the goal is truly to be an index of every thing.
Users vote on pairwise matchups between all things to determine the most important to discuss. This ranking is used to determine the order we prioritize comments for voting, as we want to make sure the most important topics are discussed first.
We chose to manually research the top 500 most important to discuss topics, and assemble their supermajority polling. This methodology guarantees that the resulting list will be balanced - There is no partisan bias in the topics chosen for research. The results have been reproduced below, organized into conceptual categories, and sorted in rough order of strongest agreement by category. Items with over 80% bipartisan support are considered to be "free", and are shown in bold.
Data for this list can be downloaded here.
The reason we maintain an index of all topics is to guarantee completeness, and a 500 item list covers only ~0.3% of them. Topics do not cease to be important after #500, items 500-600 contain "medical error", "right to privacy", "social alienation", and others that also warrant broader discussion.
Nonetheless, there is a fair amount of overlap between many topics in the top 500, containing both (for example) "community policing" and "law enforcement officer". While there are undoubtedly specific issues which were not examined, it is unlikely there are broad policy areas which went totally unexamined.
In general, pollsters only poll things that politicians or the media are interested in gathering. For example, topics like "copyright" and "fatigue as a safety concern" are topics largely outside the standard news cycle. Topics like "voicism" are too obscure to ever be polled. As such, we were unable to find much information about long-tail topics.
While gathering this data, we focused primarily on recent polls, but many issues have not been polled within the last two years. Our data is sourced from 160 distinct sources, 49 are from 2024 or 2025. Only 22 are from before 2020, and only 5 are from before 2016. Issues polled before this were not covered, and the majority of questions were polled only once.
Because some issues were most recently polled over a decade ago, it is likely that people's opinions have changed somewhat in the intervening time. However, we do not see any instances of self-contradiction within the resulting list, and the overall "opinion portrait" is very consistent, suggesting opinions have not drifted so far as to change the overall results. The only instances we have ever been able to find of a twothirds consensus flipping have either taken multiple decades, or been in response to acts of war or major terrorist attacks, (such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.)
Organizing a popular movement to accomplish some portion of this list directly. Provided a definition of "common ground", it's theoretically possible to design a platform for any group.
As mentioned earlier, the goal of "Every Thing" is to capture this kind of consensus data at scale. Wider awareness of Agreed Upon Solutions would allow us to obtain a more detailed map, one with less partisan bias and a more comprehensive scope.
Working with cities/states to do this kind of analysis at the local/regional level. This type of analysis is potentially most beneficial at smaller scales, as people within a given area will naturally tend to be more politically aligned. "The Main Street bridge needs repairs" is often easily agreed upon.