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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Friday, May 27, 2011
Voters still believe U.S. society is fair and decent and tend to think
President Obama doesn't agree with them.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of
Likely U.S. Voters believe American society is generally fair and decent.
Twenty-four percent think U.S. society is generally unfair and
discriminatory, and another 14% are not sure. (To see survey question
wording, click here.)
Since early November 2006, the number of voters who say society is fair and
decent has ranged from a low of 54% to a high of 74%. In that same time
period, unfair and discriminatory numbers have run from 17% to 33%.
When it comes to the president’s views, 45% of voters think Obama sees
society as generally fair and decent, consistent with findings since
November 2008. Thirty-seven percent (37%) feel the president regards society
as generally unfair and discriminatory, but that's among the lowest
findings since Obama was elected president. Eighteen percent (18%) are not
sure what he thinks.
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The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 25-26, 2011
by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage
points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports
surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
An overwhelming majority (73%) of voters continue to feel that when people
move to America from other countries, they should adopt this nation’s
culture. Only 14% believe immigrants should maintain the culture of their
home country instead. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided. These findings
have shown little change for several years now.
While 68% of whites say U.S. society is generally fair and decent, just 46%
of blacks and 45% of voters of other races agree.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of Democrats think the president views U.S.
society as fair and decent, an opinion shared by just 24% of GOP voters and
39% of unaffiliateds.
Older Americans believe more strongly that newcomers should adopt American
culture.
Republicans and unaffiliated voters share that view much more than Democrats
do.
Eighty-five percent (85%) of Americans regard their marriages as good or
excellent.
A plurality of voters considers themselves pro-choice on the issue of
abortion, but most still consider abortion morally unjust most of the time.
Americans have mixed feelings about the Internet’s impact on the nation's
culture, but they appear less optimistic about it than they were several
years ago
Just 29% of voters say the country is heading in the right direction. |
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