Politico
By Nick Gass
July 27, 2015
Just
three in 10 Americans feel their views are being represented by their
government officials in Washington, according to the results of a new
CNN/ORC poll released
Monday.
That
share goes down to just 16 percent among all Republicans (15 percent of
Republican registered voters), while 50 percent of Democrats (51
percent of Democratic registered
voters) feel that they are being represented in the nation’s capital.
Among independents, just 27 percent feel well-represented.
The
latest results come as multibillionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump,
crafting a campaign as a political outsider bent on fixing the country
with his business acumen,
has surged in the polls among Republican voters in early primary
states.
Trump’s
month-old campaign has already taken heat for remarks in which he
called immigrants being sent over from Mexico and elsewhere “rapists”
and “killers” as well as
calling Arizona Sen. John McCain “a war hero because he was captured”
during an event in Iowa earlier this month. Trump later clarified that
he believed McCain, a prisoner of war for five years of the North
Vietnamese, was a hero.
And
Trump’s poll numbers have only continued their upward climb: In the
latest NBC News/Marist poll released Sunday, Trump took the lead in New
Hampshire and finished
a close second to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Iowa.
The
most important issue for registered voters and all Americans polled by
CNN/ORC is, far and away, the economy. A plurality of 44 percent of
voters put the economy at
the top of their list for 2016, followed by health care (20 percent)
and terrorism (12 percent).
Despite
the surge of support for Trump, who has made immigration one of his top
campaign issues to this point, just 11 percent of registered
Republicans called it extremely
important in making their decision for the next president. Only 14
percent of self-identified conservatives put immigration at the top of
their list. All subgroups picked the economy as the area of greatest
concern.
Among
registered voters, the most important character trait for the next
president is whether he or she is honest or trustworthy. More than half
(58 percent) said that
honesty and trustworthiness are extremely important, while just 12
percent said it would be extremely important for the candidate to share
their religious values.
The
CNN/ORC poll was conducted July 22-25, surveying 1,017 adults
nationwide, including 898 registered voters, via landlines and
cellphones. The overall margin of error
for the survey is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Among registered
voters, it is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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