Majority of voters believe a foreign government or terrorist will attack electricity grid: poll

A Napolitan News Service poll finds that a majority of voters think a terrorist attack on the electricity grid is likely. 

According to the poll, 79% of voters think it is likely that a foreign government or terrorist attack could leave Americans without power. In the event of such an attack, the poll found that 48% of voters believe it could be weeks or months for power to be restored. Only 6% believe power will be restored in a few hours, and 24% think it could happen within a few days. Nearly one-fourth of those living in densely populated urban areas believed it would only take a few hours. 

According to the poll, voters with post-graduate degrees are more likely than those with bachelor's degrees or those without degrees to believe that power will be restored within hours. Only 13% of those polled closely follow news about the electric grid. 

This survey of 1,000 Registered Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on May 7-8, 2025. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.