Maybe Americans aren't as tuned out as many people fear.
A new Quinnipiac poll taken right after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel — and about a week after Charlie Kirk was killed — shows a lot of alarm.
"From a perceived assault on freedom of speech to the fragility of the democracy, a shudder of concern
and pessimism rattles a broad swath of the electorate. Nearly 80 percent of registered voters feel they are
witnessing a political crisis, seven in 10 say political violence is a very serious problem, and a majority say this
discord won't go away anytime soon," said Quinnipiac analyst Tim Malloy.
And here we used to worry about that fuzzy right-direction/wrong-direction question surveyers always asked. These new poll questions were far more pointed.
A couple of snapshots:
- "Seventy-one percent of voters think politically motivated violence in the United States today is a very serious problem — up from 54 percent in June. Twenty-two percent think it is a somewhat serious problem, 3 percent think it is a not-so-serious problem, and 1 percent think it is not a problem at all."
- "Fifty-three percent of voters say they are pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected in the United States, while 43 percent say they are optimistic. This is a reversal from six months ago, when 54 percent of voters said they were optimistic and 43 percent said they were pessimistic."
- "Voters 53 to 41 percent think that the system of democracy in the United States is not working."
Quinnipiac also asked respondents to rate Benedict Donald on immigration, foreign policy, trade, the economy, gun violence, Russia and Ukraine, and Israel versus Hamas. Trump was underwater by double digits on all seven issues.
Tired of all the winning, Trumpsters? We cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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