Most Democrats and Republicans said fighting Covid was more important than protesting against racism.
About 15% of Democrats said protesting racism was more important.
Covid vs Economy.
People largely agreed with 80% of Democrats and over 60% of Republicans saying that fighting Covid was more important than reducing the unemployment rate.
Did you expect these results? What was least surprising? Most surprising?
Are Democrats more tolerant of Republicans than vice versa? Are you more politically tolerant than average? We surveyed people to find out. Here are our results. 🧵
How irritated would you be if a member of your least favorite political party was dating a member of your family? was your neighbor? co-worker? local elected official?
We averaged answers to ^these q's to measure political tolerance.
+2 = max tolerance.
-2 = max intolerance.
We found that D's and R's were tolerant of each other, on average. There was no statistically significant difference in tolerance between D's and R's in either 2019 or 2020.
What impacts a political party's level of infighting? We asked Democrats and Republicans how they felt about the parties in 2019 and 2020. How did the events of those years impact party unity? Here's what we found. 🧵 #politics
We asked two samples, one in Fall 2019 and another in Fall 2020, which political group held views most opposed to their own. In our '19 survey, we found that Dems were almost as opposed to their OWN party as they were to the Rep party (top right).
~55% of Reps in '19 agreed the Dem Party held the most opposed views. That decreased to ~41% in '20. Which events do you think drove these changes? A lot happened between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020.
NEW REPORT about Americans' views on gender identity and #trans issues is out now. This data is from a survey of over 3,000 adults conducted last fall. Here's what we found. (1/8) #LGBTQ#Transgenderism
True or false: "Transgender women are biological women." About one in four zoomers said "true." The majority of people said "false," regardless of age. (2/8)
Same question broken down by political orientation. The majority of respondents within each category said "false." Over a third of adults who identified as "very liberal" said "true." (3/8)