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Thu Oct 10, 2019, 08:38 PM Oct 2019

Poll: Partisan divide reaches record levels.

Republican opinion of Democrats:

Closed-minded – 64% of Republicans say.
More unpatriotic – 63%.
Immoral – 55%.
Lazy – 46%.
Unintelligent – 36%.
no good ideas 53%


Democrats opinion of Republicans

Closed-minded – 75%
More unpatriotic – 23%.
Immoral – 47%.
Lazy – 20%.
Unintelligent – 38%.
no good ideas 45%

Those numbers have increased virtually across the board from 2016, the last time Pew conducted a survey of partisan attitudes. The number of Republicans who see Democrats as immoral has jumped 8 percentage points in three years; the number of Democrats who see Republicans as immoral is up 12 points.

Even with partisan antipathy reaching record levels, those on both sides acknowledge the problem and said they are concerned. Where Americans once saw only minor divisions between the two parties, today 55 percent say there are major differences between what the Democratic and Republican parties stand for.



https://thehill.com/homenews/news/465238-poll-americas-partisan-divisions-are-wider-than-ever
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