China Daily, October 18th. According to the "U.S. News and World Report", according to the results of multiple polls in the United States, the threat to democracy has surpassed issues such as abortion rights, crime and immigration, becoming the second most concerned issue for voters before the US midterm elections. The top spot is still inflation .
For decades, the United States has hailed itself as a defender of democracy around the world. But according to extensive polls, what is now worrying voters are the fate of the United States' own democratic system.
. In the poll, although Democrats are more concerned than Republican people, this trend is not limited to blue states. The results of the Texas voter poll released by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion on the 12th showed that concerns about the threat of democracy rank second among respondents, with 21% viewing it as their primary concern. Inflation is the top issue in the minds of voters in Texas, with 28% citing inflation as their biggest concern. Polls across other states and across the U.S. have shown similar trends. A nationwide poll conducted by Emerson College (Emerson College 2) in February 2022 found that 24% of Americans believe inflation is their biggest concern, surpassing the COVID-19 pandemic (20%), health care (16%) and immigration (11%). At this time, concerns about democracy were not even on the list. But after House members began to investigate the "1.6" riots in the U.S. Congress in June this year, sentiment across the United States began to change.
A Quinnipiac College poll in August found that 67% of the public believed that the US democracy was at risk of collapse. This rate jumped sharply from January, when 58% of Siena College surveyed believed that American democracy was in trouble, while 37% disagreed.
In Georgia , a poll commissioned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that in the minds of voters, concerns about democracy are second only to inflation. 19.6% of voters mentioned the cost of living, while 17% listed democracy as their primary concern.
In , Ohio, , a poll conducted in late September by Siena College found that 37% of people were pessimistic about the democracy and the future of the country. Economic issues, including inflation, are listed as their most concerned issue by 21% of voters. The second is the threat to democracy, which 15% believe is more important than crime, immigration and gun policies.
in Arizona , the survey found that 37% said they were most concerned about inflation, followed by democracy, and 25% of state voters believed that this was the most important. Democracy ranks even higher than abortion and immigration, abortion is a key issue in the state, and immigration is usually a big problem in the southern U.S. border states.
(translated by: Ma Rui, editor: Han He)
Source: China Daily Network
