Two weeks before the presidential election, a new national survey of 2,538 Americans released today by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that supporters of each presidential candidate see different realities in the current crises in the country, including the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and widespread protests over racial justice.
PRRI’s wide-ranging 11th annual American Values Survey also focuses on the public’s views of the presidential candidates; their attitudes toward pressing issues such as health care, racial inequality and discrimination, immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights, and climate change; and their confidence in the fairness and reliability of the elections themselves. …
Out of 14 issues included in the survey, only four issues found majorities of Americans agreeing they were critical: the coronavirus pandemic (60%), fairness of presidential elections (57%), health care (56%), and jobs and the economy (52%). But the only issue that majorities of Democrats and Republicans agree is critical is the fairness of presidential elections (68% and 55%, respectively); even here, partisans likely have divergent views of what “fairness” means. CONT.
Public Religion Research Institute
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