From USA Today:
“Many Americans have never heard
of the 'the Squad' and many don't see them favorably, poll finds”
Beginning with his tweets telling
four Democratic congresswomen of color to "go back" to their
countries of origin, President Donald Trump's ongoing barrage of vitriol
against the freshman lawmakers known as "the Squad" has dominated
headlines. Many political observers believe it is part of a deliberate strategy
to make the four women – who hail from their party's progressive wing and whose
views critics say are left of the political mainstream – the face of the
Democratic Party. Though many Americans have still never heard of the four
Democratic House members, a CBS News poll released this week does show that
those who are familiar with them don't tend to view them favorably. The poll,
conducted from July 17-19 by YouGov, asked 2,099 adults of their views on Reps.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ayanna Pressley,
D-Mass., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Ocasio-Cortez had the highest favorable
rating at 23%, followed by Omar at 19%, Tlaib at 18% and Pressley at 17%. But Ocasio-Cortez also had the highest
unfavorable rating at 37%. Thirty-six percent said they had an unfavorable
opinion of Omar, while 34% said the same of Tlaib and 28% saw Pressley
unfavorably. The number of respondents who had a neutral view came in the same
for all four congresswomen at 19%. A
large share of the respondents said they had never heard of the women.
Thirty-six percent did not know who Pressley was, 29% had not heard of Tlaib,
26% were unfamiliar with Omar and 21% did not know Ocasio-Cortez. The poll had a margin of error of plus or
minus 2.3%.
But "the Squad" did not
fare much worse than congressional leadership.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., was seen favorably by 16% of respondents while 40% held an
unfavorable opinion of him, 26% were neutral and 18% said they had never heard
of him. Only 12% had a favorable view of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,
R-Calif., while 25% saw him unfavorably, 28% were neutral and 34% had never
heard of him. Twenty-three percent had a favorable view of House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., while 44% saw her unfavorably, 24% were neutral and 9% had
not heard of her. Trump was seen
favorably by 36% of respondents, unfavorably by 51% and neutrally by 11%. Two
percent said they had never heard of him. Forty-six percent said he was doing a
good job as president while 54% thought he was doing a bad job. The poll, which was conducted after the
president's tweets had been condemned as racist in a House resolution, found
that 87% of Americans believe the country is divided along racial lines. A
majority (53%) said Trump "tries to put the interests of whites over
racial minorities," while 48% said the same of the Republican Party as a
whole. Forty-one percent said the Democratic Party puts the "interests of
racial minorities over whites." Sixty-nine
percent said they disagreed with Trump's tweets telling the congresswomen – all
of whom are American citizens and three of whom were born in the U.S. – to go
back to their countries of origin and fix the problems there before trying to
legislate change in the U.S. Forty-eight percent said the tweets were racist
and 34% said they were not. Fifty-five percent said they were unpresidential
and the same number felt they were unnecessary. A USA TODAY/Ipsos poll last week found that
68% of Americans thought Trump's tweets were offensive and 59% felt they were
un-American.
^ These poll numbers are very
interesting (especially if you know who all of these politicians.) ^
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