Poll: Six-in-10 support keeping stay-at-home restrictions to fight coronavirus
Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, new NBC News/WSJ poll shows.
April 19, 2020, 9:03 AM EDT
By Mark Murray
WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they are more concerned that a relaxation of stay-at-home restrictions would lead to more COVID-19 deaths than they are that those restrictions will hurt the U.S. economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
But while strong majorities of Democrats and independents are more worried about the coronavirus than the economy, Republicans are divided on the question, with almost half of them more concerned about how the restrictions could affect the economy.
The poll also finds a significant change in attitudes about the coronavirus. The percentage of voters saying they’re worried a family member might catch it has increased 20 points since last month’s survey.
And those saying the coronavirus has changed their family’s day-to-day life in a major way has jumped by more than 50 points from the March NBC News/WSJ poll.
snip
“A sea change” in attitudes about the coronavirus
The NBC News/WSJ poll also shows how the past month has changed Americans’ attitudes about the coronavirus.
In March, 53 percent of voters said they were worried that someone in their immediate family would catch the disease. Now it’s 73 percent.
Also in March, a combined 26 percent said the coronavirus has changed their day-to-day life in a “very” or “fairly” major way. Now it’s 77 percent.
And in a CNBC poll conducted in early April — by the same polling firms — 27 percent said they personally know someone infected by the coronavirus. Now, just more than a week later, it’s 40 percent.
“Socially and economically, we have seen a sea change in attitudes in just a month,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.
Biden maintains lead over Trump in White House race
In the race for the White House, the NBC News/WSJ poll shows Joe Biden ahead of Trump by 7 points nationally among registered voters, 49 percent to 42 percent.
That’s down from Biden’s 9-point advantage last month, 52 percent to 43 percent, though the change is well within the poll’s margin of error.
Looking inside the overall numbers, Biden’s biggest advantages are with African-American voters (where he leads Trump, 85 percent to 7 percent), Latinos (60 percent to 26 percent), voters ages 18-34 (54 percent to 31 percent), women (56 percent to 35 percent) and whites with a college degree (55 percent to 37 percent).
Trump’s greatest strengths are with white voters (51 percent to 42 percent), men (50 percent to 41 percent) and whites without a college degree (60 percent to 33 percent).
Among independents, Biden is ahead of Trump by just 1 point, 43 percent to 42 percent.
And when the race is reduced to 11 swing states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — Biden holds a combined 6-point lead over Trump, 49 percent to 43 percent.
Biden also leads Trump by 9 points on which candidate better handles a crisis (47 percent to 38 percent), and by another 9 points on who would better handle the coronavirus (45 percent to 36 percent).
But Trump leads Biden by 11 points on which candidate better handles the economy (47 percent to 36 percent).
snip
The NBC News/WSJ poll was conducted April 13-15 of 900 registered voters – more than half of whom who were reached by cell phone – and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
ttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-six-10-support-keeping-stay-home-restrictions-fight-coronavirus-n1187011
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That thing's numbers are still way too high. WTF is the matter with people?
= new reply since forum marked as read
