Fifty-seven percent of Americans think a terrorist attack will occur in the United States in the next few months, CBS News reports.
Thirty-eight percent do not think an attack is likely.
According to the CBS News poll:
Views have changed little from surveys taken before the recent terror attacks in Paris, but concerns ticked up last fall, after the killing of two American journalists and a British aid worker by the militant group ISIS.
CBS News polling has shown that concerns about a potential terrorist attack have sometimes risen after terror-related events. Just after the Boston Marathon Bombing in April 2013, 66 percent thought another terrorist attack was likely to occur, and 88 percent felt that way after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Views on this question differ by political party. Seventy-one percent of Republicans think a terror attack in the U.S. is likely, while fewer Democrats (52 percent) and independents (54 percent) believe that.
