… A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds likely voters in the two parties express conflicting perspectives on the most basic questions facing the nation. Democrats are inclined to think the United States is headed in the right direction; Republicans overwhelmingly say the country has gotten off track. Democrats want experience; Republicans crave an outsider. And they have different expectations on how much any president will be able to do about the country’s biggest problems.
The divisions — one factor behind an increasingly frustrated and frustrating political system — are helping to shape the 2016 election debate. But even a decisive win next November by one side or the other is no guarantee they’ll be bridged. CONT.
Susan Page, USA Today