Coronavirus Seriousness (October 2020)
category | Total |
---|---|
A significant crisis | 53% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 29% |
A minor problem | 11% |
Not a problem at all | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 87% | 45% | 24% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 8% | 31% | 47% |
A minor problem | 2% | 14% | 18% |
Not a problem at all | 1% | 7% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 3% | 1% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 82% | 85% | 91% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 12% | 9% | 6% |
A minor problem | 5% | 1% | 1% |
Not a problem at all | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Don't know/No opinion | 0% | 3% | 0% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 26% | 29% | 21% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 45% | 53% | 46% |
A minor problem | 15% | 13% | 21% |
Not a problem at all | 13% | 4% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 0% | 2% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 84% | 64% | 27% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 10% | 24% | 44% |
A minor problem | 4% | 8% | 18% |
Not a problem at all | 2% | 2% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 1% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 77% | 86% | 87% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 15% | 9% | 6% |
A minor problem | 5% | 3% | 3% |
Not a problem at all | 1% | 2% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 0% | 0% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 37% | 26% | 22% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 45% | 47% | 42% |
A minor problem | 10% | 17% | 22% |
Not a problem at all | 9% | 9% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 0% | 0% | 3% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 44% | 75% | 65% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 35% | 18% | 20% |
A minor problem | 14% | 5% | 7% |
Not a problem at all | 6% | 1% | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 0% | 2% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 47% | 58% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 32% | 27% |
A minor problem | 12% | 11% |
Not a problem at all | 8% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 1% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 63% | 53% | 37% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 24% | 31% | 32% |
A minor problem | 9% | 9% | 19% |
Not a problem at all | 3% | 6% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 1% | 4% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 57% | 58% | 49% | 50% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 24% | 25% | 31% | 35% |
A minor problem | 11% | 9% | 13% | 11% |
Not a problem at all | 5% | 7% | 7% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 74% | 55% | 51% | 48% | 53% | 51% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 21% | 25% | 30% | 34% | 27% | 38% |
A minor problem | 0% | 12% | 13% | 11% | 11% | 7% |
Not a problem at all | 0% | 7% | 3% | 7% | 8% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 2% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 45% | 55% | 56% | 69% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 34% | 28% | 25% | 19% |
A minor problem | 13% | 11% | 12% | 6% |
Not a problem at all | 7% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
A significant crisis | 43% | 48% | 74% | 59% |
A serious problem but not a crisis | 34% | 34% | 15% | 25% |
A minor problem | 15% | 11% | 7% | 5% |
Not a problem at all | 8% | 5% | 3% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 0% | 2% | 1% | 5% |