Two-Thirds of Americans Expect Presidential Election Will Be Disrupted by COVID-19
Overall, 70% of U.S. adults favor allowing any voter to vote by mail if they want to.
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Overall, 70% of U.S. adults favor allowing any voter to vote by mail if they want to.
The share of adults who are “basically content” with the federal government has risen to the highest point since 2004, driven by Democrats.
Also, a declining share of Republicans say the coronavirus is a major threat to health in the United States.
The gender gap in party identification remains the widest in a quarter century.
Many Americans say the tone and nature of political debate in the United States has become more negative in recent years.
Younger Americans are less likely than their elders and partisans are more likely than independents to have positive views of past congressional candidate pools in their districts.
LGB voters may make up a small share of the U.S. electorate, but they are a deeply Democratic bloc with overwhelmingly negative views of Donald Trump.
Political parties’ ideological stances are in the eye of the beholder: Republicans and Democrats see the opposite party as more ideologically extreme than their own.
There are substantial differences in the level of respect voters think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have for different groups in American society.
Republicans and Democrats now have more negative views of the opposing party than at any point in nearly a quarter century. These sentiments are not just limited to views of the parties and their policy proposals; they have a personal element as well.
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