Colorado Politics

Survey says a house divided…did not bode well for Hillary

Colorado was part of a national two-part survey, before and after the election, that indicated nearly 1 in 5 women who were “with her” were with a him who was with Donald Trump. Now that’s a recipe for a profanity-laced household.

A new survey by Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic indicates Hillary Clinton had a tough time winning entire households.

Further, 13 percent of would-be Clinton voters failed to vote, compared to 7 percent of Trump supporters, the national survey suggested.

“Both presidential campaigns featured ads asserting that the fate of the country was uniquely at stake in this election,” PRRI chief executive Robert P. Jones said in a statement. “But this apocalyptic rhetoric only really resonated with Republicans.”

Sixty percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Trump voters “believe the election represented the last chance to stop America’s decline; only 29 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of Clinton voters embrace this view,” PRRI said in a press release.

PRRI, a nonpartisan firm, offered this boilerplate on its survey methodology:

“Results of the survey were based on 1,162 callback telephone interviews conducted between Nov. 9 and Nov. 20,  with respondents who were originally interviewed in a pre-election survey. The PRRI/The Atlantic pre-election survey was fielded Sept. 22 through Oct. 9 among a national random sample of 3,043 adults 18 years of age or older in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.”

The survey also indicated white evangelical Protestants and African-Americans were on opposite ends of the enthusiasm gap after the vote. Two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants said they were either “excited” (31 percent) or “satisfied” (36 percent) with the outcome. African-Americans said they were either “disappointed” (33 percent), “worried” (19 percent), or “angry” (15 percent).

“Overall, white working-class Americans are not terribly optimistic that things in their community are going to improve,” Daniel Cox, PRRI’s research director, stated.  “However, white working class voters who supported the president-elect generally believe that the quality of life in their community will get better.”

For more of the survey click here. 

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