Seriousness - The secrecy of people’s individual ballots (October 2024)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 21% |
| Somewhat serious | 27% |
| Not too serious | 22% |
| Not at all serious | 23% |
| Don’t know | 7% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 23% | 19% | 20% |
| Somewhat serious | 27% | 29% | 26% |
| Not too serious | 19% | 17% | 24% |
| Not at all serious | 24% | 20% | 22% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 15% | 7% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 18% | 22% | 25% |
| Somewhat serious | 20% | 40% | 25% |
| Not too serious | 26% | 13% | 20% |
| Not at all serious | 31% | 15% | 26% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 9% | 5% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 17% | 20% | 22% |
| Somewhat serious | 19% | 25% | 30% |
| Not too serious | 29% | 22% | 23% |
| Not at all serious | 25% | 24% | 20% |
| Don’t know | 9% | 10% | 5% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 22% | 22% | 20% |
| Somewhat serious | 25% | 28% | 28% |
| Not too serious | 22% | 18% | 23% |
| Not at all serious | 27% | 20% | 22% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 12% | 7% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 21% | 17% | 29% |
| Somewhat serious | 30% | 23% | 22% |
| Not too serious | 21% | 26% | 18% |
| Not at all serious | 23% | 30% | 26% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 5% | 5% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 12% | 19% | 25% |
| Somewhat serious | 32% | 29% | 25% |
| Not too serious | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| Not at all serious | 22% | 23% | 21% |
| Don’t know | 11% | 6% | 5% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 17% | 33% | 22% |
| Somewhat serious | 27% | 29% | 28% |
| Not too serious | 24% | 17% | 20% |
| Not at all serious | 25% | 11% | 20% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 9% | 10% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 21% | 22% |
| Somewhat serious | 25% | 29% |
| Not too serious | 21% | 22% |
| Not at all serious | 26% | 20% |
| Don’t know | 7% | 8% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 26% | 20% | 18% |
| Somewhat serious | 31% | 26% | 24% |
| Not too serious | 17% | 24% | 22% |
| Not at all serious | 19% | 25% | 25% |
| Don’t know | 7% | 6% | 12% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 22% | 21% | 23% | 18% |
| Somewhat serious | 37% | 30% | 24% | 20% |
| Not too serious | 18% | 20% | 22% | 26% |
| Not at all serious | 16% | 21% | 23% | 29% |
| Don’t know | 6% | 8% | 8% | 8% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 22% | 20% | 21% | 28% | 20% | 18% |
| Somewhat serious | 26% | 31% | 23% | 27% | 30% | 23% |
| Not too serious | 22% | 20% | 26% | 16% | 22% | 21% |
| Not at all serious | 12% | 20% | 23% | 17% | 24% | 35% |
| Don’t know | 18% | 9% | 7% | 13% | 4% | 3% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 25% | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Somewhat serious | 30% | 29% | 24% | 17% |
| Not too serious | 19% | 24% | 24% | 21% |
| Not at all serious | 18% | 22% | 25% | 37% |
| Don’t know | 8% | 6% | 9% | 9% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 29% | 15% | 22% | 15% |
| Somewhat serious | 31% | 29% | 15% | 31% |
| Not too serious | 18% | 23% | 23% | 26% |
| Not at all serious | 15% | 25% | 34% | 18% |
| Don’t know | 8% | 7% | 6% | 10% |
