About 70% of respondents in a Chapman University survey favored a national mask mandate, while 80% said they’d already gotten the COVID-19 vaccine or planned to get it.
of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. After a 2020 hiatus, this year’s virtual event, Fighting Climate Change, takes place April 7.“Most polls are done by someone who has an agenda. My view is wanting to provide public policy makers information that is not just anecdotal,” Smoller said. “And we’ve found the county is not nearly as conservative as its portrayal in the national media.
Chapman’s survey sheds light on how independent voters stood on more partisan issues, such as the soundness of the recent presidential election and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.A question about whether the November election was fairly conducted split Democrats, 97% of whom responded affirmatively, from Republican voters, only 33% of whom agreed. Among no-party voters, 73% said the election process was fair.
About 73% of no-party voters also said they favored a nationwide mask mandate, compared with 94% of Democrats and 39% of Republicans. “O.C. today is diverse both culturally and politically,” Moodian said in a statement issued after the survey was published. “[It] is increasingly looking like the rest of the country, as opposed to being an ultra-conservative outlier among coastal California communities.”