Poll: Democrats More Out Of Touch Than GOP, Trump
They didn’t need a poll to establish this. Nothing could be more obvious.
“Poll: Democrats More Out Of Touch Than GOP, Trump,” by Charles Fain Lehman, Washington Free Beacon, April 23, 2017:
More Americans say that the Democratic Party is “out of touch with the concerns of most Americans” than either the Republican Party or President Trump, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
According to the survey, 67 percent of those polled said that the Democratic Party was “out of touch” with common American concerns, and only 28 percent said the party is “in touch.” Six percent said they had no opinion.
These numbers are similar to but worse than those for the Republican Party: 62 percent of those polled said they thought Republicans were out of touch, while 32 percent said they were in touch and seven percent had no opinion. President Trump beat out both his own party and the opposition: 58 percent of those polled consider him out of touch, 38 percent describe him as in-touch, and four percent had no opinion.
The out-of-touch number represents a steep drop for Democrats. In 2014, when the same poll was last taken, 48 percent said Democrats were out of touch, a loss of nineteen percentage points over three years….
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