Extra strikingly, a big share of voters, largely Republicans, say they don’t count on the outbreak to have main results on their every day lives —
Extra strikingly, a big share of voters, largely Republicans, say they don’t count on the outbreak to have main results on their every day lives — a view that runs counter to the suggestions of public-health officers.
The ballot was carried out March 11-13, surveying 900 registered voters. It went into the sector the day of Trump’s tackle to the nation on the outbreak on Wednesday, the identical day the NBA suspended its season after a participant, Utah’s Rudy Gobert, contracted the virus and actor Tom Hanks introduced he and his spouse, actress Rita Wilson, had additionally examined optimistic for coronavirus.
Solely 15 p.c of voters say they count on the virus to vary their lives “in a really main manner,” and an extra 26 p.c say they assume it should change their lives “in a reasonably main manner.” However 39 p.c count on solely “small” modifications, and 17 p.c say it received’t change their lives in any manner.
The mixed 41 p.c who count on main modifications to their lives consists of 56 p.c of Democrats, however solely 26 p.c of Republicans. Democrats are additionally extra doubtless than Republicans to say they’ve or will probably be canceling journey plans (47 p.c, versus 23 p.c) or plan to cease consuming at eating places (36 p.c, versus 12 p.c).
“Merely put, it is extremely clear that partisanship has contaminated our views of the coronavirus,” Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt told NBC News.
Voters do count on issues to worsen: Roughly six-in-10, 60 p.c, mentioned the worst is but to return. However 6 p.c mentioned the worst was already handed, and 31 p.c mentioned they don’t count on coronavirus to be a significant downside within the U.S.
And regardless of the consequences already seen — a wave of cancellations of public occasions, the tumbling inventory market and the pressure on the well being care system — the share of voters saying the nation is headed in the fitting route (37 p.c) is statistically unchanged from final December (35 p.c).
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