Americans’ political identities provide a lens through which they view and interpret much of what goes on around them, including not only views of the government, but also opinions about the economy, the state of the nation, race relations, schools and healthcare. The COVID-19 situation is no exception. …
A Gallup analysis reported last month confirms that partisan differences in the ways Americans understand and react to the virus are at least “partly attributable to news consumption habits.” But which messaging matters most? A closer analysis of recent Gallup data on COVID-19 provides some insights in answer to that question. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup