Direction of the Country (October 2020)
category | Total |
---|---|
Right direction | 29% |
Wrong track | 62% |
Don't know | 9% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 5% | 15% | 54% |
Wrong track | 91% | 71% | 34% |
Don't know | 4% | 14% | 12% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 2% | 7% | 6% |
Wrong track | 92% | 87% | 91% |
Don't know | 6% | 6% | 3% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 40% | 43% | 65% |
Wrong track | 40% | 41% | 29% |
Don't know | 20% | 17% | 6% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 6% | 14% | 52% |
Wrong track | 91% | 74% | 36% |
Don't know | 3% | 12% | 12% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 2% | 3% | 13% |
Wrong track | 96% | 95% | 82% |
Don't know | 2% | 2% | 5% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 44% | 51% | 57% |
Wrong track | 41% | 35% | 34% |
Don't know | 15% | 14% | 9% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 34% | 12% | 23% |
Wrong track | 57% | 78% | 70% |
Don't know | 8% | 10% | 8% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Right direction | 32% | 26% |
Wrong track | 60% | 64% |
Don't know | 8% | 10% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 23% | 32% | 31% |
Wrong track | 72% | 59% | 57% |
Don't know | 6% | 10% | 12% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 20% | 22% | 35% | 35% |
Wrong track | 68% | 70% | 56% | 57% |
Don't know | 12% | 8% | 9% | 8% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 24% | 29% | 29% | 37% | 26% | 30% |
Wrong track | 70% | 60% | 63% | 57% | 64% | 63% |
Don't know | 6% | 11% | 9% | 6% | 10% | 7% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 38% | 28% | 19% | 12% |
Wrong track | 52% | 63% | 71% | 82% |
Don't know | 10% | 9% | 10% | 6% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 43% | 31% | 12% | 7% |
Wrong track | 47% | 59% | 83% | 77% |
Don't know | 10% | 10% | 4% | 16% |