Just 9% of Americans think democracy is working extremely well: poll
Since the same poll was conducted in 2020, the number of Democrats expressing confidence in democracy has increased, while the number of Republicans saying so has decreased.About 47% of Americans surveyed said they have a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in the results of next month's midterms will be counted accurately — an increase from 39% in 2020.
Democrats, at 74%, were far more confident that the results would be tallied accurately than Republicans, at 25%.About 77% of Democrats said gerrymandering is a "major problem," while 51% of Republicans agreed. 51% of Democrats believed that voter suppression was a major problem, while just 23% of Republicans did.Methodology: This Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll was conducted Oct. 6-10 using the AmeriSpeak Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago.
This poll was conducted via online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones among a sample of 1,121 adults. The margin of sampling error is ±3.8 percentage points.
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