Direction of the Country (August 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
Right direction | 21% |
Wrong track | 69% |
Don't know | 10% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 40% | 7% | 7% |
Wrong track | 44% | 81% | 90% |
Don't know | 16% | 13% | 3% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 20% | 30% | 54% |
Wrong track | 63% | 44% | 35% |
Don't know | 18% | 25% | 11% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 7% | 10% | 6% |
Wrong track | 90% | 86% | 91% |
Don't know | 2% | 4% | 3% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 37% | 24% | 8% |
Wrong track | 49% | 60% | 87% |
Don't know | 13% | 16% | 4% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 32% | 38% | 41% |
Wrong track | 52% | 50% | 46% |
Don't know | 16% | 12% | 12% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 16% | 6% | 5% |
Wrong track | 77% | 89% | 93% |
Don't know | 7% | 5% | 2% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 16% | 38% | 27% |
Wrong track | 76% | 53% | 59% |
Don't know | 8% | 8% | 14% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Right direction | 23% | 20% |
Wrong track | 71% | 67% |
Don't know | 6% | 14% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 33% | 18% | 12% |
Wrong track | 56% | 72% | 80% |
Don't know | 11% | 10% | 8% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 32% | 20% | 18% | 20% |
Wrong track | 58% | 66% | 76% | 68% |
Don't know | 10% | 13% | 7% | 11% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 27% | 24% | 20% | 16% | 21% | 23% |
Wrong track | 65% | 65% | 71% | 70% | 72% | 64% |
Don't know | 8% | 11% | 9% | 14% | 7% | 12% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 19% | 25% | 24% | 20% |
Wrong track | 74% | 63% | 66% | 67% |
Don't know | 7% | 12% | 11% | 13% |
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Right direction | 26% | 17% | 27% | 12% |
Wrong track | 68% | 71% | 64% | 69% |
Don't know | 6% | 12% | 9% | 19% |