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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:09 PM Apr 2020

Americans who know someone with COVID, less likely to approve of him

1 APRIL 2020
JAY BARMANN

The new survey is based on interviews with 1845 Americans between March 26 and March 28, and Change Research published the results Wednesday. They asked people questions not only about their fears over the virus, the trustworthiness of government leaders and news organizations, but also .. whether a national vote-by-mail policy should be considered in this election.

... asked how worried they were about the COVID-19 crisis, 78 percent of Democrats said they were fairly to extremely worried, while only 28 percent of Republicans had the same response. Among independents, 49 percent were in the same range of worry ...





... among respondents who have had some known contact with COVID-19 — either themselves or someone they knew — 76 percent disapprove of President Trump's handling of the crisis. Among people whose lives haven't yet been touched by the virus, only 49 percent disapprove ...

https://sfist.com/2020/04/01/poll-americans-less-likely-to-approve-of-trump-if-they-know-someone-infected-with-coronavirus/

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Americans who know someone with COVID, less likely to approve of him (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2020 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Apr 2020 #1
Soon we'll all know someone who is infected. captain queeg Apr 2020 #2
This is the Kevin Bacon of viruses? Brainfodder Apr 2020 #3
Maybe because the virus has mostly affected cities... Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #4
That means eventually no one will approve of him. defacto7 Apr 2020 #5
Hmm, there's a problem customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #6

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
4. Maybe because the virus has mostly affected cities...
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:19 PM
Apr 2020

... so far, where there’s more Democrats?

I hope otherwise, and that more people will realize that Trump and the Republican Party are harming everybody!

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
6. Hmm, there's a problem
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 11:31 PM
Apr 2020

Joe Biden's numbers are not far from those for Trump and Pence. I'm surprised this poll did not include Andrew Cuomo.

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