Some highlights from the poll and focus groups include:
— Respondents generally believed the country was headed in the right
direction (70%) as opposed to being on the wrong track (22%), and
two-thirds believed the economy has been improving since Trump took
office. Yet the focus group respondents frequently expressed concern
about how things in the country are going, using words like “terrible,”
“upheaval,” “polarization,” “chaotic,” and “volatile” to describe the
state of the country.
— The breakdown of strong approvers vs. somewhat approvers largely
mirrored Trump’s relative areas of strength and weakness in the
campaign amongst the broader electorate: Men were likelier to be strong
approvers than women (44% of men were strong approvers vs. 39% of
women); respondents over 65 were the only age group where strong
approvers outnumbered somewhat approvers (48%-46%); and, amongst
respondents with differing levels of education, strong approvers
narrowly outnumbered somewhat approvers only amongst those with a high
school education or less (49%-47%), while voters with at least some
college education were likelier to somewhat approve than strongly
approve. (Full data are available in the poll crosstabs,
linked
below.)
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