A new APNORC survey finds that Democrat voters are continuing to lose faith in the Democratic Party in recent weeks, and that reality could have significant ramifications on two gubernatorial races this fall as well as the midterm elections next year.
The survey, conducted among 1,437 adults and released August 3 asked Americans to offer the first term that came to mind to describe the Democratic and Republican parties, and the findings do not bode well for Democrats.
Democrats associate their own party with negative attributes such as “weak” by twelve points more than they associate their party with positive attributes such as “for the people”, the survey found. This is the inverse for Republicans, who associate the GOP with generally positive attributes by 22 points. Thirty-five percent of Democrats immediately associate their party with negative attributes, while only 23 percent immediately associate the party with positive attributes, according to the survey.
