Partisanship in a pandemic: Democrats more concerned about virus than Republicans, but increasing concern for all: Polls

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About half of the U.S. population calls COVID-19 a 'major threat' to the health of the country—but more Democrats feel this way than Republicans, according to a new poll.

with friends and family, compared to 32% of Democrats who said they were doing that. Between March 20 and March 22, Gallup saw jumps of about 45 percentage points for people who identified with both parties reporting they were avoiding small gatherings. In the same time-frame, there was a similar 40 point increase among Republicans and Democrats who said they were avoiding public places, like restaurants and stores, but the 20 point partisan gap still existed.

MORE: Congress pours $400 million into boosting states' election efforts amid coronavirus crisis, experts say it’s 'not enough' This was also seen in the last Pew Research poll, when, compared to public health officials, there was even more bipartisanship agreement regarding state and local officials, with nearly the same percentage of Democrats and Republicans saying they were either very or somewhat confident in those officials. In areleased Monday, 76% of Democrats and 73% of Republicans said their state's governor has done a good job.

The four states with the most number of cases in the United States all have Democratic governors, but in Florida, the state with the fifth most cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted ordering the same closures. Excluding Massachusetts, in the two states represented by Republicans with the next highest number of cases, Georgia and Texas, the governors haven't ordered these closures yet either.

 

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Just stop......... Non- Democrats are simply less panicky and Hyperbolic. Our Concern is every bit as serious as theirs.😏 By the way, you left out the largest party - Independents.😮

People are the major threat. Fortunately many are now waking to the seriousness.

Repuglycans need to stop watching FOX NEWS.

Pandemics aren’t partisan, you ding dongs coronavirus

That’s because Republicans, like trump are ready to kill Americans money in their pockets.

I think it's more than half ...more than half the country is sane ..even more are reasonable or rational..and even more are good

Of course, because the left will weaponize literally anything (even a pandemic) against Potus Not that it's not a big deal but overblowing it seems to be the democrats play right now...so shortsighted. Gov of California claimed 22 million ppl in CA would get it. fearmonger

Republicans have less fear of everything in general, not really a surprise imo.

That's because Republicans are still drowning in Trump's Kool-Aid.

That's because conservatives no longer trust Democrats. Much of the fat in the new relief bill is a prime example why. Get Trump at any cost is another.

New poll? How daym pulls are these polls recording? Lmao new polls every day. The government leaders as useless as ever. Game over

People are waking up to coronavirus now 'American Virus' and the President will do what he does best. Blaming someone else for his failure to prevent this epidemic December - January, February too late

Yah NY demonstrates that so well

Can a modern day registered Republican catch it if they’re soulless and have absolutely no morals? 🤔

TrumpVirus TrumpLiedPeopleDied

Well no duh, anything you put in front of them and then put that trump disagrees they are all over it like maggots in a trash bin..... like bullet holes on a stop sign..... like mustangs into crowds of people

Of course, their news sources are different

No shit.

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