… While nearly 60 percent of Americans overall said in a recent Quinnipiac poll that they were concerned about the Delta variant, more than 60 percent of Republicans said they weren’t. And research indicates that many people are looking at Covid policies they don’t like and blaming whichever party they’re not part of.
It’s enough to make one despair about the American public’s ability to deal in a nonpartisan manner with, well, anything.
But that may not quite be right.
I talked to several political scientists and pollsters about how the current Covid wave might affect public opinion and, more important, public behavior. Here’s what they said. CONTINUED
Maggie Astor, New York Times