I felt this particular survey was excellent. I wish I were more knowledgable about some of the questions.
Some of the questions are not that deep. Many of us out here in flyover country cannot identify with either 'party.' We are disgusted by the behavior and elitist attitude of many people in the government.
I think Donald Trump faked (with assistance from his doctors) being ill. He is too much of a coward to risk his life,
Yes, why did you not ask if it is OK for Democrats to harass Republicans online? The survey seemed biased to me.
I had to refresh the survey several times due to errors
I like the surveys I get from YouGov and ALWAYS take them seriously. I am a news junkie and especially now, so close to a major election, I am very tuned into the news. (I watch different times of the day and try to get balanced information. Hard to do when I can not afford to watch CNN, MSNBC or FOX Cable news--OH! Just had a thought! I should opt in to those for one month! I CAN afford ONE month!! TY for giving me the idea!!) I feel my responses are also taken seriously. Wish there were a way to time how fast I replied to your last questions--you could tell I did not have time to look up answers. (Questions were fairly basic anyway....) There were some questions where there was no answer was a good fit. Would be nice if there were comments available always for these questions. (I know that is not possible but I can wish there were a comment box...lol) This was a good survey, thank you for allowing me to participate!
Section on violence seemed slanted against Dems.
Embarrassed to say that I guessed the length of time that a representative in the house is up for re-election.
I found the survey to be straightforward and interesting. I do hope it helps.
These answers are provided by a 74 year old person, who forgets things occasionally.
The survey was perfectly fine as presented.
Very interesting. I love talking about politics
A couple of questions should have offered "neither" as a response.
I am embarrassed that I don’t know who the Prime Minister of Great Britain is.
Short, sweet and to the point. I like that.
Questions were well written and enough choices to answer the question asked.
I'm intrigued that the survey explored the possibility of deliberately insincere answers. I can believe that this might be an issue.
Why were the questions about violence only directly towards Republicans when it is the Democrats that are mainly involved with Antifa & BLM?
Some of the questions regarding use of violence require more nuanced answers then were possible. For instance, if Trump were simply to declare himself victor despite the results and refuse to leave, at some point violence may be necessary to remove him. Violence or the threat of violence is the final arbiter of all disputes.
Why was there questions regarding the everyday violence exhibited by Democrat's or the very likely violence to occur if and when President Trump wins his most deserved second term.
Question on democracy is somewhat misleading. The U.S. is a Republic using democratic principles and practices. A true democracy would lead to mob rule in which the majority could (and probably would) ignore minority opinions and rights. Government and citizens are both limited by our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and laws based on them.
I am 77 years old and I took civics in school. I have been voting since 1968. I kind of enjoyed the survey I would also like answers, don't care, does not matter, if you have four dot answers then you should include a fifth in the middle so that you can indicate neither strong or weak. It does not come into the questions but I was a hard right republican until 2004 or 6th. Thanks for the survey
Why weren't there questions regarding the violence of Democrats towards Republicans. You can't have an honest survey if you don't identify that issue as well.
You are concerned about honesty in the answers but what about your biased questions...especially when it comes to political and personal questions?
The questions about when republicans should be allowed to use violence or not seemed a little one sided to me because you didn't ask the same questions about the democratic party.
I believe gerrymander is the biggest danger to democracy. I would like term and age limits for the president (8), congress(12), the judiciary (20/25) and federal employees (none), but age limit of 72 for all. We have had 2 of the worst candidate in 2016 & 2020, we need to select better candidates. Have 8 primaries, start with states with the fewest representative/delegates [Alaska (3), Delaware (3), District of Columbia (3), Montana (3), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Vermont (3) and Wyoming (3).] to the most representative/delegates [Florida (29), New York (29), Texas (38) and California (55)]. Do y'all remember, before the internet we thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information? .... : : : : .... Yeah, it wasn't that.
Pretty biased. The US is not a democracy, so having democracy as the only choice on some questions was severely flawed.
How do you define violence and what was that set of questions about?
I AM SICK O THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR LEADER GEORGE SOROS.
no problems, excellent survey, you also should have asked about knowing your elected congressman and senator
I had no problems with the survey. The questions were clear and didn't seem biased.
Interesting questions, although I'm not sure I liked the part about the political violence too much. I shudder to think that anyone would ever answer anything other than "never" to those questions.
The last question was ambiguous, and ill defined.
Everything worked great so far in this survey. Thank you.
Every bias against Republicans. Why bother with a survey. All the violence going on now is funded by Democrats and Hollywood actors with all their millions and the socialist George Soros.
Completely biased leaning towards Democrats. How can you ask if it is "ever" ok for a Republican to instill violence yet do not hold Democrats responsible for anything they have done? Shame on you.
if i had said i was a democrat, would i receive a different set of questions?
I didnt answer the term limit for US House Reps. I don't know how it shows I answered it. I looked up to see something on TV, and when I looked back to my phone, it had gone to the question about whether I used any outside sources. I don't know if that was the next question after the US House term limit question or not. The term limit for House members is 2 years I THINK!! I should know it definitely, but I'm drawing a mental blank right now!
I like it — the language feels like it allows for latitude of response.
Some questions needed more nuanced answers. For instance , when asked when violence is justified , there should be a response to the effect of '' except in self defense'' .Charlottesville comes to mind as an example . I cannot say I would stand by as friends or fellow demonstrators were beaten without an effort to save them from harm , which might by necessity require violent reaction .
Your god damn question made the republicans look like the purveyors of violence, when it's been liberals burning and looting cities! And any idiot should know how long a senator and congressmen serve, that's why there should be a basic test of one's knowledge of America to vote!
I enjoyed this survey. Makes me feel like my voice can be heard.
Short but nice, I would ask more detailed questions about possible violence on both side.
Threatening or intimidating should be defined. Some people would define sending a letter saying you'll donate to their opponent if they don't do something. If you define that as threatening then I say that woud sometimes be justified. If however you mean threatening violence then it is amost never justified.
Extremely bias against Republicans. Didn't ask if I would be ok if democrats resorted to violence.
Left-wing bias no questions a about liberal violence from groups like BLM and ANTIFA. Bs survey
i need stronger words for donald trump. disaprove doesn't cover it.
there were some statements made, I couldn't quite understand how to respond to it - there weren't any "I don't know" or "Not sure"
I wish it had included more questions about the issues: climate change, racial inequality, jobs, etc.
Somewhat biased questioning... all violence, hate speech and intimidation to date has been by the Left and Left/Liberal causes. No reason AT ALL to assume or think that Republicans specifically would be a source of violence, intimidation or hate speech.
Only that it was a very interesting survey
Comments on violence did not take self defense into account; people being violently attacked are justified in fighting their attacker.
No comments this survey was not as boring as some I have done
The survey is fine but sadly I didn't know some answers.
No comments. The survey was straight forward
No comment I might be bombarded by negative comments
Your questions about Republicans resorting to violence when none have - ever, while the Democrats and their surrogates - BLM and ANTIFA have rioted, looted, burned, and murdered while Democrat mayors and governors have sat on their hands is quite putrid. Slanderous. And revolting.
Correct answers FOR ME were not always available. Since I could not proceed without choosing an answer, the answer I chose was not always correct.
It seemed a bit biased asking questions about republicans committing violence and not democrats. But in the real world right now it’s the democrats who have been and still are committing 99.9% of the violence.
Many questions were too broad and did not take into account the many factors which can influence how voting is conducted and how election results could be challenged. I would be concerned about trying to draw meaningful conclusions based on these questions.
I thought the double negative questions were absurd. I know this is a tool used in psychological evaluations but I never ever think it’s ok to use that tactic.
I just don’t have much of an opinion about politics. I don’t like either person running for president. The whole thing intimates me.
Trump is why our country is a mess and we are an embarrassment to the world
The government FAQ questions were softballs
The questions were not totally clear and could be looked at in ways that would have caused me to give different answers. For example, the ideal "democracy" is different then living in "A Democracy." Also, what does "unsafe" mean? "Someone threatened to kill me" unsafe, or "Someone hurt my feelings" unsafe? You never know these days.
on the election u can tell polls has joe n front but why is there no 1 at his rally and trump has thousands that media dont show nor report.all the ballots that r for joe most r fraud on dem. side?
Good survey...timely and relevant issues
As usual and often there were questions biased against President Trump
I like these surveys. Ask more questions!
The questions are a push poll for Joe Biden. The pollsters are asking questions about the baseless accusations of the democrats. This poll is unethical.
On the presidential race, instead of "someone else," you should give the options of "Jo Jorgensen, Libertarian" and "Howie Hawkins, Green"
I couldn't remember if the senate was 4 or 6 years per term
I thought the first set of questions were somewhat confusing and poorly written. The second set were much clearer and easily understood.
The questions about violence… When I know that trump is trying to organize white nationalist to patrol polling places and intimidate voters it’s hard not to always assume the position of non-violence because voters will be subjected to violence from these Nazi groups! I saw footage of trumps white supremacists barreling through crosswalks full of people in Portland shooting paintball guns at random people and spraying mace from their jacked up pick up trucks!
on the one set of questions about threatening statements and e-mail being sent, you mixed up what party is doing it. The Democrats are doing exactly what you asked if the Republicans were doing. Just confused by the bias. This seemed like a CNN survey.
Seem fairly biased questions, what's up with that?
questions were asked to produce a desired answer. Asking if the Republicans would use violence but not the Democrats who are not only now using violence but are being supported by a biased media
Very easy to understand and answer the question.
I didn't have any problems with this survey.
civics needs to be taught in the schools, like it was when I went to school
Your questions on Republicans being violent to Democrats were extremely biased.
in the future tell people that they will only have 5 seconds to answer each question before the survey moves to the next question, so they won't have time to look up the answers.
political science degree, didn't have to look anything up...and should be correct (or my degree wasn't worth it...)
seemed to be slighted to the left when asking questions on fighting, last time I checked it was the Left causing the distruction
The questions on violence were rather pointedly biased towards Democrats.
The initial questions were confusing and I had difficulty deciding how to answer'
The wording on some question. Implying that republicans are likely to be violent. A better question would be example- is it ever acceptable for any political group to be violent if their candidate loses the election?
No problems. Most of these are pretty standard political poll questions.
Several of the questions are worded in a pro-Democratic Party slant that will affect the outcome of the survey.
comment...BIAS!!!! Who are causing all the violence and riots? They are almost exclusively DEMOCRATS. For years the democrats have encouraged and condoned this. Kamala Harris even encouraged donations to bail out the criminals the jails in Minneapolis!!!
The U.S. form of government is a Republic
My comment is not about the survey, per se, it's about politics -- before Trump was 'elected' I was a registered Independent, when he became president, I changed to Democrat, to have some hope of unseating him and his enablers in congress.
Seems to till to democrats, President Trump's questions seemed bias
It may be better when answering about race when other shows up it needs a space to answer that question
I wanted to clarify my answer that the candidate leading on election night will be Trump because votes are easier and faster to count in rural areas. Big Democratic cities take longer to count. It will be late before we know that Virginia voted for Biden because the Fairfax County vote is slow to come in. Therefore Biden, The legitimate winner will not be known until days later
Better to be honest in express our opinion. Truth is more important then lies
I enjoy the political surveys, especially during an election cycle. I encountered no problems and none of the questions were confusing.
seemed biased. you asked about republican violence 5 times and there has been near 0 republican violence. you did not ask about democrat violence and antifa/blm/others are all dems and have been over 90% of the violence.
Thank you for sending an I hope this helped.
You kept referring to a "democracy." We are technically a Republic with checks and balances and a constitution. I prefer you to use the correct terms. Venezuela, Cuba, et.al, were technically "democracies," but they had no mechanisms to stop their elected officials from becoming dictators.
yes, I noticed that this survey was tilted towards an anti republican agenda filled with biased questions that were asked about, or against republicans and pro democrat, the questions about violence were all about republicans, not democrats who have openly supported rhetoric or violent actions against republicans, and there constituents since day one of the 2016 election, including using any means possible to overturn that elections result, democratic supported groups like antifa have used violence and fear to shut up conservatives taking away their rights to open free speech, i have watched these people burn and loot towns near me. if your gonna have or do a survey, at least ask the same questions about democrats as you do republican instead of being so blatantly biased as this survey was
I take these surveys to offer my honest opinion and help YouGov in taking its pulse of the world. I was a honor student when it came to Civics and History. That’s the reason I’m sure that I aced your questions. These are the only surveys I take because I believe you are honest & up front. The rewards are secondary. I feel very lucky to be living in Massachusetts..
Nothing was confusing... but why would I lie?
Yes, you had questions about Republicans and violence against Democractics, what about the violence coming from Democratics and demeaning language you see every day.
Just hope it helps us understand what is going on with our country.
I thought it was very well done. Only comment is on the 'whether President Trump/Biden wins, is it a legitimate win' questions. The only options were (effectively) 'more yes, yes, no, more no.' Not believing the results of an election really has nothing to do with the candidates themselves, but rather the evidence and circumstances at that particular time. It would have been nice to have an option to make this clear that it would depend on available evidence.
No, I do not have any comments. Your survey was perfectly understandable.
I have a very low opinion of politicians in general. I think the structure of the USG needs modification. The two party system is the greatest source of problems.
No confusion, but your 0-100 scale question on how democratic the USA is, is a little misleading. Our constitution is explicitly anti-democratic. These are things that a democratic majority cannot do or take away... That makes it a little hard to know how you want us to measure.
In the questions about the justifiability of violence -- what is meant by "violence"? Are we talking property damage? Or violence against people? And if against people, are we talking verbal or physical? To what extent of physical violence is meant?
You asked "To the best of your knowledge, how many times does each of these occur in a presidential election? " which is perfectly fine quesiton, but this upcoming election looks like it MIGHT not be a typical one...
Some of the questions were framed in a biased manner, specifically anti-Republican in nature. It seems that the assumption is that Republicans are the ones who are predominately violent and antagonistic toward Democrats, when the complete opposite is true. Democrats are literally turning a blind eye to looting, rioting, and domestic terrorism, then blaming conservatives and “right-wing militias”. They’re admitting that violence will ensue in the event that Biden does not win the election in a landslide. That’s their plan: to mobilize their Marxist insurrectionists in our cities and suburbs. So the questions in the survey start from a false premise, which is utterly sloppy and dishonest.
I am so so SO tired of politics. I have enough turmoil in my life without adding the country's stress on top of my own.
Good survey-----I strongly believe surveys of this type to be positive for the betterment of US society, however, the "push-pull" type of poll I detest since it is a ploy to get a political ideology or viewpoint across. This is a cheat on honest polling and leads to the detriment of public confidence.
the statements about political violence seem vague and leading
i love your surveys i am always honest when i fill out surveys on only website i really dont think you should be dishonest on the surveys why someone would do that i don't know but for me i like being honest even if someone or myself doesn't like it
There were 3 branches of government to ensure accountability. Now the current president owns the executive, the judicial and the legislative. There are no checks and balances during this "outlaw" regime.
I made a error on one question. There was no way to back up.
The US is NOT a Democracy, It is a Republic. Please address this matter in future surveys.
Your question on the electoral college seems to be crafted to drive the uneducated to a specific answer. Tricky question as worded. Do you want to eliminate the Electoral College - Yes or No! NO
I got interrupted by a phone all, when I came back to answer, the question was gone.
enjoy expressing my opinion on politics, government, policy and current events.
democratic government for the U,S, would equal mob rule, we are not a democracy we are a republic. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
You know, when you have not decided on who to vote for, you need an option to state that. Otherwise, I am made to select an answer that is not truthful.
The questions targeting the Republicans actions to Democrats should have been asked to the Dems as well.
Based on the recent news reports and video evidence of fraudulent handling of 'mail in ballots' there will be riots and violence after the November 3rd presidential election. The incident in New Jersey that was reported today in which 99 'mail in' ballots were thrown in dumps in West Orange, only adds fuel to this fire. The irresponsibility of the media and politicians (other than Donald Trump) ignoring these incidents will only make the chaos after the election worse as neither side will trust an election with such irregularities. The Democrats will allow their cities to burn and refuse to charge looters and rioters with crimes as they believe it will force Trump from office. This is why the confirmation of Amy Coney Barret is so important. We cannot have a 4-4 divided court allowing lower courts to decide the winner of the presidential election that uses fraudulent ballots mailed after the election has taken place. This is the Democrats plan to win. It is their latest 'insurance policy' since the one in which they weaponized the FBI and CIA to stage a coup did not work out as they intended.
ANY person that takes this survey could answer correctly each question if they kept up of what goes on daily in this Country. Search daily. If you love this Country.
Your questions were very easy. Who would have to look them up?
Why only question Republicans violence and not Democrat violence which already exists? Very slanted.
The system is corrupt and needs to be changed both parties do not represent the people.
Wish there was a choice of “possibly” in the questions that list “probably” or “”probably not”. Some concepts are POSSIBLE, yet NOT probable. I feel pushed into being more definite than I feel sometimes
Why did you only ask about violence by Republicans against Democrats and about the reverse? Both parties are equally prone to violence. In fact, given the current rioting in many cities, you could argue that Democrats are the more violent.
I felt the question about violence was rather biased. There were questions about Democrats acting violently toward Republicans, but not vice versa. It goes both ways. Personally, I would only resort to violence to defend myself and my family.
You might want to toss in a an attention question to make sure people are actually reading all of your questions.
Could you please include other political viewpoints beyond liberal/conservative? I am constantly being forced to answer "closer to the democrats" because there isn't an option for third party support.
democrats are the suporters of violence not republicans. Democrats are also anti semites and will have to pay when iran gets the bomb and uses it not only on isreal buy also on cities in usa
Wow, that was quite a biased survey. Did I read correctly that it was put together by three institutions of higher learning? Ridiculous. Is it ignorance or malice? Our system of government is a democratically-elected representative-REPUBLIC, not a democracy. The questions about justifying violence was so utterly, laughably biased, that I almost refused to finish the survey. Not a single mention of Leftist violence (which, by the way, is clearly visible in my area of the country for months and months), but an entire page of blatant propaganda about violence from the Right. I don't know a single conservative that espouses violent reaction, but I know quite a few Leftists that recommend violent mob-justice by guillotine and molatav-cocktail, bricks, concrete, and laser-pointers. I live in genuine fear of execution at the hands of the anarchist and leftist lynch-mob, for if my thoughts and ideas were to be known I would certainly be an egg to be cracked for the revolutionary omelette. But see, they don't need to know my mind, they just need to imagine that I am an enemy because of my skin pigmentation or my clothing or some other such rationalization. Remember, after the mob has liquidated me, they will come for you next. The mob is never satiated; yesterday's allies are useful idiots, and tomorrow's slaughter. Don't think that you are safe just because you think you are on the mob's side today. They will turn on you. It is the way of Socialist Revolution, again and again.
All topics and questions were clearly written.
I am always serious about politics and would NEVER give any type of goofy answers. I answered all the questions totally on my own.
I had no problems nor found anything confusing.
Nothing was confusing. Sometimes I mix up representatives and senators. I don't know why my mind doesn't have that set. I also don't really know the amount of years they serve. I thought they all were 4 years for a while, but learned recently that's not true.
The survey was not confusing. However, it was heavily biased. Why were questions asked about the appropriateness of Republicans using violence but not any about Democrats using violence? It is, after all, democrats/ marxists that are currently violently demonstrating and destroying private businesses and harming or killing police officers across the country like in Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis.
Try to be less Democrat leaning. Why only focus on republicans using violence, when we all see the violence in Democrat run cities by Democrat supporters. It’s not Republicans we are worried about. Stop perpetuating the lie.
Seemed to be a little biased in favor of Democrats. The questions about violence and the answer options were not well crafted. Is making a threat an act of violence? Only if the threat is a threat of violence - a threat to hit or physically harm another. What about threats that make another person afraid? Then it depends on what the threat is. There are some people ( a lot actually) who believe if someone has an alternate opinion or doesn't fully agree with them then its a threat and they're afraid. That's a gross over-reaction but not a threat. The terminology in your questions needs to be more definitive.
Why did you ask about Republicans being violent? There has been ZERO incidents of Republicans being violent in the past 4 years - yet Bernell Trammell was murdered by a Democrat for being Black & promoting Trump for re-election.
I wish you would have included Jo Jorgensen as opposed to the generic 'Someone Else" for who I plan on voting for in the Nov 2020 election. She is the Libertarian running for president, is on all 50 states ballots and intends to reduce the size of the federal government. She should be getting mainstream media coverage. jo20.com
I only favor getting rid of the EC if we enact Rank Choice Voting nationally.
None of the questions we're confusing, and I had no problems while taking it.
Couldn’t go back. Seemed to miss some questions
This survey is incredibly biased against Republicans. You asked at least 7 different ways if I support Republicans using violence. I don't know how much you get out of your campus bubbles, but you only need to look at what is going on in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, name it... to see that it is leftist, Marxist, Antifa agitators who are rioting in the streets, burning down private property, accosting / agitating citizens, and screaming to "burn the whole system down." Yet, not one question about Democrats condoning violence. Disgraceful.
Your questions about the US being Democratic shows you do not know that we are a Constitutional Republic. Democracy is mob rule. So your question how important is it to me to live in a country that is democratically run, the answer is truly zero because we are a constitutional republic. We are covered by our constitution. Also your question about doing away with the electoral college and just counting the popular votes. Again you do not understand the constitution and why our founding fathers Institute at the electoral college. Voting by electoral college ensures that every state has a say in who becomes president
It's interesting because people who think they "follow" politics probably don't know a lot of the very basic things about our government like how long Senators serve for, they think that just watching the news for headlines gives them enough information to form an opinion, and it probably does in most cases (Fox News and Breitbart excluded, of course) but that doesn't give us the baseline of basics that we think it does. I don't know much about Congress and the House and whatever but I do know Donald Trump and every one of his supporters in government are total assholes and dangerous for democracy in general.
several times I had to refresh to get it to work
I think you should note that the USA is NOT a democracy. It is a Democratic REPUBLIC.
No. I try to answer to the best of my ability
no problems encountered. Some answers needed additional choices because the given ones did not provide enough selections
I am wondering why you were more interested in responses of Republicans for hypothetical situations then for Democrats. This made me feel the bias of the survey
I would like to know the correct answers for this survey. Thank you.
We may all hope for the best, unfortunately I do not see this as fact. We are probably at the most important election of our lifetime. Hope for the best, expect the worse. Very sad. Thanks
The United States is a Republic. At the national level, the Congress is elected through a democratic process. Unfortunately, the flawed 17th Amendment removed a valuable protection for the states and their populations by making Senators elected by popular vote as opposed to the State government choosing them. We now have two peoples houses neither of which do a decent job of representing their constituents regardless of party. The Electoral College was purposely designed to help prevent large population states for dominating elections in this country. Today, abolishing the Electoral College, means California, New York, Florida, and Texas control the outcome the election of a President and Vice President with Illinois and Ohio possibly having a say. The reset of the county cannot out vote those states. Regarding these questions: On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is least democratic and 100 is most democratic, how would you rate the political system of the United States as of today? How important is it for you to live in a country that is governed democratically? On this scale where 1 means it is “not at all important” and 10 means “absolutely important,” what position would you choose? These two questions fail to address the what area of our government to which you are referring. Our founding fathers did not nor should we want a 100% democratic form of government. That is to be blunt mob rule.
I may have given the wrong answers but I did not look any of them up
I wish they gave you the right answers after answering... i want to know what the right answers were
The questions in this survey were incredibly bias. An entire page was dedicated to right wing violence without a mention of presently occuring left wing violent unrest in major metro areas. This undermines any validity the study results would have.
This what’s the well presented survey and had very interesting content and touched on proper subjects for this time in history.
you wanted to know if i was looking up information on the House of Reps. question, I was thinking before you popped your question up. As i stated earlier i said i would be truthful.
Not sure of length of time for senators and representatives.
No problems...but people who don't take these surveys seriously, should not be taking these surveys. IMHO.
the current political climate in this country today makes me very skeptical ....especially toward the Democratic Party...too many of these politicians have lied and shamefully ruined lives ...it will be a long time before I will ever vote democratic again......
Why did you only ask about republicans doing violence?
Pretty bias, If you ask a question for one side ask the same as the other there by eliminating your obvious BIAS
none, but it seemed the survey was biased toward Democrats. Democrats are the ones who have been rioting across the country yet you asked about Republicans causing violence????
I was confused when you asked questions about Republicans being the rioters and looters. It happens to be the left, Democrats, who are the ones who riot and want police defunding.
The first section was a bit confusing when you asked "Is the U.S. this way" and I paraphrased.
Media is biased and democrats cheat and their voters are violent.
I think some of the questions were biased. For example, you asked about people fraudulently voting, but you did not ask about voter suppression and gerrymandering. Those are the bigger voter problems crushing democracy. I also wish you had allowed for write in answers. You are fitting a square peg into a round hole.
these surveys continue to be very biased to the left and can not be taken seriously. Also, the current batch of dems and the ccp are evil and corrupt.
Questions should have been more specific vs. general. Makes the survey appear very bias towards democrats.
I feel the questionnaire was biased to help the Democrats look better!
No problems doing surveys. But i have enough points to cash out, and not able to. I wrote to you gov, and no one has helped me. But love doing these surveys. Look forward to doing more.
No, it's all been quite straightforward.
I have answered honestly but my problem is with the person in command that lies.
some of the questions, where you ask 'does not' (ie) etc., but the answers you get to chose from are: a lot, a little, somewhat agree, etc. (for instance)... get confusing, it would be better as a yes or no answer.
It was interesting that I wasn't really sure about the term limits.
No problems, but I found the survey fascinating. I wish they were all like this.
This survey referenced violence only by Democrats towards Republicans which screams bias.
The questions about does the U.S. meet these standards were worded in a confusing way.
Survey tested my ability to answer questions about politics!
I only looked up the question about the prime minister
I felt this survey was biased against Republicans since it mentioned them acting violently against Democrat
i'm scared how many people couldn't answer the basic government questions
Not confusing, just disturbing that our Country is in such turmoil.
Just on ethnicity. White is a color, Caucasian is the correct for answer.
I am very, very concerned about the direction our country is taking, and have been so thankful for President Trump. I very seldom watch anything on TV but FOX news and that is my main interest and hobby. I am concerned that FOX is slipping and it makes me cross. Do so much appreciate those who are not in the middle of the road on FOX. We have to have one place where we can get truth. This survey was great - right up my alley.
Well, you did in few other survey about voting ask if I was a citizen and in age for... I am in fact resident..
most of the questions are bias and have only one way to answer not the one I want
The question regarding if it is ever ok for Republicans to respond with violence to Democrat violence did not specify if you were talking about individuals or local/state/federal government.
None of it was confusing and I didn't have to look anything up.
It was good to participate in a political survey. No problems
I take these surveys seriously and always try to give honest and accurate answers.
I wish there was a back button. I think I selected the wrong candidate for president and wanted to double check.
Yes, I found it inherently biased. Our country is not a democracy. It's a democratic republic. We have an electoral college for a reason. It's so everyone is represented - not just California and NY alone! Pure democracy is mob rule - tyranny of the majority!
Dumb survey - first few questions worded in such a way as to be difficult to understand .......... and lacked, "don't know" ......as an option ........
I was not confused and there were no problems.
Why did you ask about Democrats threatening violence when it’s actually GOP sympathizers who had plot against MIchigan Governor & GOP who cheered on 17 yr old who murdered peaceful protesters??
Better than some I've taken. If Trump steals the election, I'm all for violent intimidation of him and any politician who enables his bad behavior. Having him not commit to accepting the election results if not in his favor is an unprecedented attack on our process and governmental philosophy. His denial of all types of data and science is also rather un-Presidential. He has always been a grifter and a con artist as anyone paying attention in the NYC metropolitan area knows.
Some of the voting and trust in elections questions could use more options for answers. Otherwise, I mostly enjoyed taking the survey.
I had a phone call come in. The survey advanced forward as I focused on the call for the question of Senators and 6 year terms and did not let me answer.
Some of the questions about violence were vague. Did you mean respond with violence if you are attacked? Did you mean respond with violence by law-enforcement personnel to restore order? Some of these questions were not well constructed and were misleading.
I wish you would stop saying Democracy. USA is a Republic. Even though they failed to represent us.
I think an option should be added for people who are registered to vote as one party, but now consider themselves the opposite party. For instance, I'm registered as a republican, but no longer consider myself republican so I chose independent on the survey but that really isn't accurate.
There was one set of questions asking what republicans would do in response to or using violence. I never think any violence is acceptable, but I see a lot of liberals' using violence every day vs. peaceful protests, it shows bias to me.
No, I did not have any problems with the survey and there was nothing that was confusing. I am embarrassed not to correctly answer some of the questions but that's okay.
Sometimes it's necessary to make different comments than the ones provided in the survey. Surveys don't always give enough choices.
Not sure why the questions regarding violence by Republicans against Democrats were not also asked about Democrats attacking Republicans. Seems biased
Your civics questions were pretty obvious to someone like me who has a law degree, a degree in political science and who immigrated to the US (and had to study US civics for the citizenship test)! I find some of your questions only had bad answers - so is violence ever justified? Well, it kind of depends. In the vast majority of circumstances no, but if someone is violently attacking my neighborhood, family or person, than yes. Your possible answers were just always, mostly, occasionally or never. I had to put "occasionally" but that doesn't at all get to what I really mean.
Many of your questions were left open for a wide interpretation, in other words, there were some extremely poor choices for some of the questions. There was a little bit of bias in here as well.
Senators are 6 years. I was trying to think of it was senators or reps. And I said wrong, but it is 6.
None.but I do think that one party is in bed with the media. You also did not mention outside influences in our elections. Individuals, political groups, countries, and religious sectarian groups
These surveys never ask why. Trump is not an ideal choice but compared to what the democrats are wanting with higher taxes higher energy costs taking away our guns. They remind me of Obama when he said the average family would save 2500 on health care.That did not work out so well if your healthcare only went up 2500 you can consider yourself lucky. Gotta love those deductibles that make your insurance worthless while you are paying four or five times the price of what it should be.for your policy
I felt that your questions about violence were biased -- you never asked if a Democratic expressed violence toward a Republican, how would I feel???
Why did you ask questions about Republicans using violence and none about Democrats or Democratic sympathizers using violence? Rioters are mostly from the left politically in what we have been seeing in several cities recently.
No just seems a little biased! All questions that were asked, was about Republicans doing things to Democrats. Just a little odd don’t you think?🤔
On a couple of questions an (I don't know) would have been helpful.
This asked mostly about Republicans causing violence, what about other political parties? Sometimes violence is the only answer, but only after diplomacy has failed. Our people have forgotten how to listen, hear, and compromise; and it shows with our politicians. Some of the questions need the reply "It depends," because life and choices are not that simple. Sometimes, it depends.
Well organized and questions worded without bias.
Good survey,.to see how people remember government in school
Only the one question which referred to the US as a Democracy...which we are not and never have been.
I wondered why all the violence questions were aimed at Republicans. All the violence taking place is in blue states supported by democratic govanors and mayors. BLM. It seems to me violence questions should have been directed at democrats.
Seems to be a good survey. Easily understood. To the point.
Some questions are not easy to answer because the answer I'd give isn't a choice. For example, I am hopeful that there will be enough of a blowout for the Democrats that there aren't issues for Trump to use to muddy the clear result. BUT, while I generally believe our election results will be legitimate, Trump has encouraged violence and aggression in his followers, asked them to intimidate voters they don't recognize as being someone they agree with (minorities, women, non-Christians) . . . so how legitimate an election it is depends on the behavior of some who has shown themselves to not care about legitimacy. If Biden wins, I will accept that as legitimate . . . because all the action I see against legitimacy is on Trump's side, so if he wins, I will suspect intimidation, violence, etc., impacted the result.
No problems. I feel it is a survey that makes me do a lot of thinking
This has been the best survey on politics that I have taken to date, however.... I'm always surprised that no one ever asks why a person is attracted to a particular political party.
Survey was disconnected in many areas of questioning. Some had too many choices to decide which answer fit the question properly.
Glad to see it seek underlying answers. I read several Sources each day; LATimes , Reuter, WaPo, sources, Economist, NPR and various info sites.
Yes I do! Why didn’t you ask about violence about demorcrats before and after election?
I had no difficulty in taking the survey, I found it really interesting
If you are seeking someone reasons for an opinion there should the an opportunity to give a statement after each question.
Well you asked about Democrats but not Republicans if it was alright for violence ect.
The questions about violence against political parties was clearly nosed against the gop. there should be an option to identify as libertarian
Honestly I don't know all the lengths of a term for all congress, senate, or judicial member. I just know President. Maybe I'm dumb but I will be honest.
It was fine, nothing crazy or confusing.
Want to give opinions on vp candidates in the future.
All of the questions seem to be leaning toward Republicans picking on Democrats. I would have to say, Democrats have picked on the President for 4 whole years....How about that ??
I liked being asked about portions of our government that people should know. I am a history teacher, so I know the answers to those specific questions, but I wish other people knew them too.
I had no issues, it flowed well and nothing messed up.
Although your survey was unclear, the Republicans seem to be the ones threatening and cheating their way through this election.
You are doing a good job of ascertaining opinions in an unbiased way.
Thank you very much, the survey is not confusing at all and it is very good for me.
I accidentally put in the wrong zip code by one digit. I would have like a back button to correct. My zip code is 40744 and I punched 40745 by mistake.
very interesting but no questions on media or the 2 debates
It concerns me that your questions about violence are directed almost exclusively at Republicans committing violence. While there are some incidents of people that the media wants to charge with being conservative committing violence, without evidence I might add, conservatives are not the ones burning cities, targeting police officers and abusing/attacking private citizens who are just trying to live their day to day lives. Your desire to pin all of America's problems on conservative minded people does not make it fact. The sooner we can stop choosing ideological sides and pointing fingers at each other and work towards what our Republic was designed for which is finding common ground and compromise the more successful we will be as a Country and a people in general. No one can get everything they want in a home for a family of four you certainly will not get it in a country of roughly three hundred and thirty million. Thank you.
As per usual, there were some questions which, in reality, didn't exactly have black or white answers. This affects the true validity of a survey. Which is why so many people are skeptical with regard to polling numbers, ESPECIALLY right now. I recognized these questions from other YouGov polls, which have been published recently. It will be very interesting to see what the results of this poll look like, if I happen to see them in the near future.
One question was "If the election were held today, who would you vote for?" But I have already voted via absentee ballot.
I really feel the questions were leaning left and putting the right , more specific Republicans in a bad light. All the violence questions were about republicans/right. Never once about Democrats. Most other questions were in favor of the left. This was not an impartial survey at all
I consider some of the questions about violence to be hypothetical or ambiguous. In general I don't feel violence or intimidation are ever acceptable, but there are forces at play on the left that are downright scary and could require responses that have never been necessary in the past and I do not believe it is ever prudent to unilaterally disarm.
i hate politics so I literally just go by what my friends tell me.
im tired man :( but I have opinionated views even half asleep
No problems. I liked how you switched up the “agree” “disagree” so people weren’t just clicking the first option for each question for “agree.” I made sure to double check each question and response.
I think senators should be like president only be in office 2 terms some stay in way to long and gain to much power and never do good for the state they was elected from
This survey exhibited a clear bias in its phrasing and the answers the authors chose to offer. Publishing results of polls like this are the reason the public does not trust the media. It was not confusing, it was blatantly obvious.
Unless there is a methodology reason not to, it may be beneficial to put images of people mentioned respectively by their choices for people that do better visually.
I have recently realized that presidential candidates be it democrats or republicans, this country is heading towards doom. Why do surveys ONLY give Biden or Trump as choices, when theres 2 other candidates. I feel that media and political parties suppress the other candidates’ existence to monopolize the election. Recenly its this Pelosi thats headstrong and I feel that even if Biden wins the election, he would only serve as a puppet.
Some of the questions were asked in a way I could respond truthfully because did not have an option for it
No problems. A few of the questions seemed biased, but it was not disconcerting.
Seemed like the questions about violence was only about if republicans became violent while just about all the political violence we see is by democrats. Also, I never used to claim "Strong republican" until all we have seen from the democrats in the last 4 years.
The only thing I will say is that people who lie in person are way more likely to lie on these type surveys, esp, if they think they can alter the findings
Found your questions regarding Republicans and violence was extremely biased
The question about presidential term limits was a little confusing because it said "elected." But other than that I think it was fine.
I take all surveys seriously. I am getting paid to take them so It's right that I do them well.
Some of the questions about violence were confusing.
Yes I enjoyed it but could have paid higher
why didn't you ask if it's ok for Democrats to use violence if they don't like the outcome of the election? They have been using violence for 6 months now. BLM and antifa.
Seems like you are biased for the Democrats
This survey was surprisingly unbiased. It was refreshing and I appreciate being a part of it
having a nice easy survey is always a plus
no, the questions were easy to understand.
Interesting survey. Makes me wish I paid more attention to my social study classes growing up.
Nothing was confusing. I do however find it disturbing when asked if violence was ever justifiable by either Democrats or Republicans
good... answers are the answers.. JLittle
I think taking these surveys is somehow important. It makes me feel more connected to my political system; being able to fill out polls where I say who I want to vote for, what I approve and disapprove of, and being made to think about different things, all give me more a voice than I feel I have in every day life. I try to answer these surveys very seriously, because I feel like they're an important part of what remains of our democratic system.
If you want to be sure people don't look up answers, set a timer for those questions. I've seen them used on YouGov surveys before.
This survey was incredibly biased by always portraying Republicans in a violent manner while portraying Democrats as victims. Surveys with this kind of bias make me question all other survey and poll results portrayed in the media.
everything was clear and easy to understand
There wasn't anything confusing in the survey. I thought it was interesting, thank you!
I like political surveys be nice if you can add pictures or video to enhance the survey.
the survey was good, thanks for asking .
The violence questions were weird and partisan, especially since Republicans and right wing have a history of violence and intimidation, not Democrats.
we do have a very disappointing but revealing slate of candidates for 2020
Why were the questions about DEMs being violent towards Republicans yet none with he reverse info??
Why in the one section were the questions of violence only geared at Republicans? It is the Democrats that have been causing all the violence and allowing it to continue.
Quite biased. But coming out of the institution it did, that is to be expected.
I don't remember the specific questions, but I answered as if they were about the electoral college.
I find it interesting that you did not ask questions about democrats using violence at the same extent you asked about republicans using violence, especially with the recent violence caused by Antifa and BLM, which are more supportive of the democratic agenda, not Republican.
Questions about Republicans harassing are causing fear of Liberals was totally bias. I was thinking the next page would ask the same questions for Democrats doing the same thing. This did not happen. Who ever wrote these questions had a clear view and bias and was looking for a specific outcome. Shameful...
United States is not a democracy. Your questions imply that it is. Biased.
There's no way to know how much fraud of inaccuracy that occurs in US Elections but if each person voting isn't verified as a legal registered voter with photo ID and signatures the potential exists. Further the postal service is a complete trainwreck and has been devolving for years. Ballot harvesting, ballots tossed in trash, errors in printing and people preventing poll watchers from entering public buildings are HIGHLY concerning. If you can't get a valid ID, request absentee ballot, vote early in person or on the day of the election you're a MORON and too stupid to vote. You need valid IDs to do anything in this country.
My power flickered of for a few seconds before I could answer a question. I was unable to answer that question.
bias is why you get false results think of how you pose your questions
I feel that 5 or 7 point Likert scales would have been more appropriate for many of the questions.
Yes, one. There was a section on violence from Rep or Dem. This section was carefully worded and possible answers totally Biased ! ( choices favoring "don't hurt the Democrats , but, it's Ok for Dems to hurt or cause violence to Republicans" Yikes !! I didn't expect this from you folks. Of course, you did not disclose if you are all Democratic or not.. I chose not to look your names , schools or current political positions.
I've been doing survey's on YouGov for many years, and this is the 1st time I've ever felt a biased survey towards a certain political party, this time leaning in favor of Democrats. Not happy about that.
I didn’t realize the time these officials are an office some of them. Otherwise the questions were not confusing to me just that I didn’t have the answers right off the top my head.
when I was asked to select an answer I was thinking,I"m old takes awjile
Some of the questions I feel were designed to have an answer which is biased and does not reflect the ability for the respondent to explain their answer because there is no box provided to clarify the "yes" or "no" response.
(1) Regarding the "seriously" question: it's a little unclear whether "never" means you never take it seriously, or you never not take it seriously. I interpret it to mean the latter, but putting in all of those negatives makes it unclear. And to make sure that i'm being clear, i always try to be honest and literal with surveys. (2) Regarding the question of voter fraud, there should be some option for "don't know". I answered by estimating in the thousands, but what i mean is "don't know". I think it is hard to determine, because those committing the fraud are probably more capable and determined than those ostensibly trying to detect the fraud. It is known or strongly suspected to have happened in the past (e.g., 1960 presidential election), and in some prior elections i have received two ballots (of which i only used one with my then-current residence address). So perhaps i could have committed fraud then if i wanted to, i don't know.
I think I hit the wrong selection on the question about how many years a senate term is.
The questions only asked if Trump supporters would be violent toward Democrats/Biden supporters seemed overly biased. Especially since two Trump supporters have been executed by Leftists. Leftists have been rioting and burning cities and pulling people out of their cars and running Trump supporters over. Survey never asks if this violence on the left is justified. Typical bias from the educational institutions.
Your questions so far sound a bias to the left, What if Trump wins, am I concerned about riots from Democrats? Is it OK for Democrats to harass Republicans or say nasty things about Republicans? Where are those questions?
One of your questions asked about Republicans using violence to advance political goals. I'd like to see an example of that happening. What I see is dems vandalizing or stealing Trump lawn signs, shooting people dead in the street as happened in Portland, threatening people while eating, etc.
Biased questions regarding violence it is Democrats who have shown themselves to be violent.
The statements were very ambiguous, sometimes leaving no room for a clear answer. The answers offered were too limited. Survey froze once
This surveys was okay. Let's see how the presidential election is held and alert for any violence
I had no problems. I found the survey fair.
did need to read some questions more then twice
Why did you only ask about Republicans and violence not Democrats? Seemed very biased
No problems. The survey was not confusing at all.
YES, I have a problem with the questions which asks: How much do you feel it is justified for Rep. to use violence in advancing their political goals these days? When, if ever, is it OK for an ordinary Rep. in the public to harass an ordinary Dem. on the Internet , in a way that makes the target feel unsafe? When, if ever is it OK for Rep. to send threatening and intimidating messages to Dem. leaders? If the Dem. engage in violence during the election, it it justified to respond with violence? If you pay attention to the REAL news, you will see that it is the Dems. who are doing the violence, harassing, advancing their careers with violence on the internet and in person, etc. Where do you get off accusing the Reps. of doing these things??? Show me one Rep. that is doing these things? The last time I looked Maxine Watters, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, Cory Booker, etc. are all Dems. and advocated for violence wherever they could and now the the terrorist, pretending to be demonstrators in major cities in the U. S., are ALL caused by Dems. How dare you, by these questions, indicate that the violence caused all over the country for from Reps. !!!!!! For example: terrorist attaching Ryan Paul and his wife in a restaurant and in Washington after the Presidents acceptance to the nomination for the Rep. party for President and once again they were attacked outside the W.H. trying to get to their motel. These are just two examples of hundreds that are caused by Dems. These surveys are very in favor of the Dems. and I resent such questions like those I listed to be asked of us and not the other side!!!! If you want true surveys then ask questions that don't put one party in bad light and the other in a 'heavenly' light because the Dems. definitely don't belong there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will grade this survey as VERY bias!!!
The questions regarding our form of government are inappropriate. We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic.
I feel it was somewhat biased towards Republicans.
you are Bias. Your questions refer to a democracy when we are a republic. We do not by design have majority rule. You infer that Republicans are promoting violence whereas the left, with its promotion of Antifa and the militant arm of BLM who are promoting violence and unlawful behavior
Yes, the question on Republicans pretty much using force or ugliness or harassing people of the opposition. Maybe the better questions would have been, does one think the right leaning folks will finally fight back.
I didn't have any problems. I would like to know how many I got right.
I would have sked about proper ID for a voter, should the two party system be altered to allow other choices in each state, term limits for the House and Senate, most questions were good questions!
I thought some of the questions asked regarding violence were biased in that questions pertaining to Republicans were not asked equally toward Democrats. I'm 81 years old and during my Lifetime I have found Liberal Democrats react emotionally and are more prone to riots and violence than their counterparts. All you need do is look back in history.
I think this survey is very relevant and asking very inquisitive and poignant questions surrounding voting and voting legitimacy that have come to the forefront by the President. There seem to be many misconceptions surrounding voter fraud as well as with absentee and mail-in voting.
Many of these questions begin with "what if the Republicans (or Democrats) win the election...:" Such a question can't be answered by a thoughtful person. "What would you do if the Republicans (or Democrats) CLAIMED to win the election..." is far better.
No problems or issues, nothing was confusing. Excellent in depth survey!
early questions required binary responses. political thought is seldom binary except among those who feel ALL THOSE people do this or that ALWAYS. Not my view of the world.
To be bluntly honest, I did not like the way it appeared that Republicans would be trying to harm or intimidate Democrats when I have continually seen the exact opposite. Try asking the question with the roles reversed and see what you get then as the Democrats sure seem to be happy to resort to violence.
The question asking if we should be a strong democracy or weak democracy should have been should we have a democratic government or a representative republic government, I would have answered strong representative republic as it helps insure all of the country has influence in the election not just the largest metro areas of west coast and the area around NY City and surrounding states .
The question with a thermometer-type sliding scale did not work; I was not able to indicate an answer.
This survey was OBVIOUSLY bent towards a liberal/leftist point of viewpoint. In fact--"liberal" is a word that USED TO describe a "Libertarian" or "freedom lover" of a political candidate, until in modern times it's been bastardize to mean a "leftist", or "socialist" one. Now, "conservatism" is bastardize as well and isn't the meaning it was used to be in the previous century.Problems--the survey move along onto the next question without me clicking on the arrow button!.Prediction: unless by a landslide, with obvious show-ups of a particular candidate, and IF it is really IS a close call election, THEN BOTH candidates WILL contest the polls, in which in turn riots, and CIVIL WAR WILL BE ensued!
I guess I should mention that I'm one of the political scientists who does the Bright Line Watch survey...
The real answer to some of the questions would have been "I don't know" or "It depends" but those choices were not available. Not everything is a black & white as this survey implies.
I am always unsure about the term Strong Democrat. Would that mean generally vote for democrats or strong identification with the party? I, for example, generally vote for Democrats, but actually lean Socialist, much further left than the democratic party. Am I a Strong Democrat because I'm far left or not a strong Democrat because I find the party's policies too middle of the road.Never sure how to answer that question.
The questions regarding who wins The election were confusing. It wasn’t clear to me whether it was questioning the legitimacy of the win, whether I refuse to accept it despite its legitimacy, etc.
Considering the OUT RIGHT HOSTILITY of the national news media complex has against trump and the constant negative portrayal of ANYTHING trump does or says, whether its a good thing or not, the vast majority of these questions are couched in a way that participants will always think its trump's fault and answer in such a way. Example with this survey, when asked about violence during/after the election, over the internet, it was about five questions. Four out of the five had republicans and their supporters posing as the aggressor. The last question asked if democrats use violence would it be ok to respond with violence. This is just a very small sample of the inherent bias in ALL of these surveys.
Why were all the questions regarding Republicans causing violence? Seems to me the same questions should be asked for both parties.
Some of the surveys be to personally! Examples include race and political party.
I found this survey to be a refresher on Civics and also an azimuth check on my thoughts/feelings.
Interesting questions more people need to learn civics
on the question , About being liberal, or conservative, or neither ...you should have put a neither answer box there for those us that are neither ...instead of the moderate, in middle reply we ( I ) was forced to choose
by the topic in this survey are we expecting troubles after elections?
I enjoy doing surveys. I like to exspress my opions. Thank you.
Interesting. I hope others are honest with the survey. Our country gets enough dishonesty from the USA president all day every day.
the wording in some of the first set of questions was strange
To be perfectly honest, as this is being conducted by a university I fully believe they have become nothing more that communist's indoctrination centers and do not support the US constitution and are doing all you can to spread discord and lies about the United States, you are no longer institutes that promote critical thinking! This has become obvious when you shut down almost all conservative thinking! You have become a national disgrace!
I have no comments and nothing was confusing.
No problem nor Was it confusing, good quality questions.
It certainly seemed skewed leaning toward the democrats.....did you notice a lot of the questions seemed anti Trump. I can get that anywhere I don't need a survey that is against him. Tonight 60 Minutes is doing 2 shows ripping the president. I hope they count it as an in kind donation.
I don't like the liberal/conservative spectrum, because there are many people on the far left who don't identify with "liberal" at all, and many people on the right who don't identify with "conservative" as well. I'm way to the left of the liberals and the Overton window doesn't even include me, this is the problem, this is the entire problem with politics in this country, this is why the DNC made the same mistake with Biden as it did with Clinton in 2016, this is why masses of people are demanding government defund the police and liberals and other centrists have no idea where that came from.
This survey seemed a little biased in favor of the Democratic Party.
Confused as to why questions were only asked in regards to thoughts on republicans possibly responding violently or threateningly, but not the same questions in regards to Democrats?
i wonder why you only ask about republicans being violent after the election, when those againist the President are ALREADY VIOLENT, and not one democrat has condemned the violence and some have joined in
It was pretty straight forward. I didn't have a problem..
I don't really know much at all about politics and do not follow them...
Had lagging trouble and also I realized when I got to the question of “how many years/term for House of Representatives “ (which is of course two years ) I had mixed up the senate term of 6 years in a previous question and answered 2 years (I get the Congress mixed up sometimes) so tried To go back to correct but system would not let me
This survey made me feel like I was back in school. :-( Not a good feeling.
no it was very strait forward and easy to under stand.
Why were the threats of violence coming from “Republicans” alone? I have heard threats from “democrats” regarding the upcoming election.
you never asked if a democrat was elected ,if their be rioting
I am thankful for these surveys. I feel they are necessary for growth and understanding, in, and of our society.
It seemed bias, leaning toward the Democratic party.
This study is very biased toward the Democratic party. I think the questions were written in a way that can only be interpreted the way you wanted it to. You had a conclusion and worked back from there.
The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic! Our education system is destroying this country. Our Government is run by bureaucrats, that was never the intention of our Founders. That said, they knew it would happen. Donald Trump is America's, I believe, last chance to get America back on the course our Founders intended. Democracies fail eventually. Socialism takes over. The Democrat Party lost its way a long time ago. Love live the Republic of the USA.
one sided and not partial. Didn't ask if Democrats used violence, which they are using already. Please try to be less one sided.
I always answer questions sincerely and the best of my knowledge.
I found your study to be extremely bias. Sad, but then expected from academia. If this election goes wrong and we end up a socialist country, then you will ask yourselves----what happened, and take no responsibility.......truly sad.
I would like to know why there were only questions about rebublicans being violent and responding with violence. For this survey to be unbiased the same exact questions should be asked about democrats.
This is one of the best surveys I have taken as of late
Democrats are more likely to be violent they don't have hobs.
when the question of violence was asked the democratic side is all behind the violence in the cities such as antifa and black lives matter more republicans have been killed or injured by the left than people on the right in the called quiet protests
Easy questions that prove the uneducated-ness of this country if people can't answer without 'outside help.' In the words of our dear leader, SAD.
How many years for President should be how many terms a president can be elected
It is completely inappropriate and completely voids the merit of a question when you fail to provide all reasonable answer possibilities. There are three candidates on the ballot in all 50 states + DC. There are several other candidates who are on enough ballots to reach 270 electoral votes. Only including Trump/Biden is dishonest and pseudoscientific. At the very least, Jo Jorgensen should be included.
you seem to favor Joe Biden and the Democrats
Made me try to remember my lessons from school.
It’s sad that this survey was very biased against the Republican Party! That’s what is wrong with the Country these days!
The questions are very vague. Like if Republican are violent should Democrats be violent too. Everyone has the right to self defense, but what violence. Burning down building and destroying property is a tactic that has never been used by Republicans. Most Republicans believe in God, church, family, state, country. There is no reason for destruction they are trying to build a good safe community and take care of the handicap, retarded, elderly. The democrats want people that work hard to provide for those that pride on being weird doing drugs and not wanting to work and treat the working person as equal to the non-working lazy people. I believe private funds not tax dollars should be used for supporting those who refuse to work, but we should have free clinics for those that are mentally ill or are addicted to drugs. So they can seek help and get clean and become part of the productive population. Democrats reward people for doing bad and criticize people for their success. As if the success of one made the other do drugs and crime. Yes, I am very disappointed when Democrats are violent and not arrested for the act. If the government won't protect the people then the government is useless.
The questions about violence justification for Democrats and Republicans were confusing.
The questions regarding violence of republicans during, before or after elections was incredibly biased and based, at the very least, on false assumptions. Incredibly disappointing
Some of the questions were of course bias towards one political party over the other. Was this intentional and what do you expect to gain by doing so? Not a surprise though but doing so then publishing the results is one of the biggest problems the country has and manipulates the public and in turn voters. You should be ashamed - the difference is small but the results over time are great
Earlier in the survey you kept referring to the democracy when we are actually a republic
It would be nice to get the correct answer after I select my answer.
This survey seems biased against Republicans
Everything seemed to be worded well and easy to understand.
i love your surveys they are foward and i like them.
The question about "how democratic is the U.S.?" was slightly confusing to me, as we are a Democratic Republic, not a straight Democracy, so I was unsure how to answer.
On the questions on term limits did not know I was on a timer I had to help family member and it was onto the next question. If not on a timer I say a quick flash and a pink line flash seemed like a timer why I say this. I don't like the questions on violence as I feel its unfair to ask those questions about Republicans and not democrats also.
I didn't have any problems with the survey.
The question about whether violence would be justified in response to violence is unclear on a crucial point. I will "always" support self-defence against violence in the "they started it, we ended it" sense of hitting back against your attackers, but "never" in the sense of retaliation violence at a different time or place against different people. The questions about invalid votes also missed a category: citizens who aren't eligible to vote (I. E. Felons). Ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, and ballot destruction are all serious concerns with mail voting, as is voting by illegal immigrants who may not understand that they aren't eligible, but are allowed to do so due to insufficient Voter validation (I. E. Several Democrat controlled areas both grant illegal aliens drivers licenses and register voters at the DMV, studies using jury selection off registered Voter rolls found many illegal aliens who admitted to having voted repeatedly). Even states that routinely use mail ballots have an error rate of ~1% under normal circumstances, this is an election under much more strenuous circumstances, involving many states that lack that experience, and will likely be close enough for 1% to tip entire states one way or the other. Even aside from any deliberate fraud, incompetence and accidents alone are a major risk that could potentially decide such a closely contested election. That's even before worrying about foreign interference. I have very high confidence that the vast majority of eligible votes will be counted correctly, but similarly very low confidence that there will be NO fraud or mistakes made, so any result that hinges on a <3% difference is going to be suspect to me as falling within the possible margin of error.
I didn't find any parts of this survey confusing. It was simple and easy questions to answer. I didn't have any problems at all with this survey.
One technical glitch. Otherwise, descent survey
I hate to say it, but some bias prevails. You assume that the race for 2020 is just republican vs democrat / joe biden vs donald trump. Where is the Green Party, Libertarian Party and those candidates? They are large parties with more than 1% of citizens involved.
I hardly know anything in politics, because I don't follow it anymore.i feel like the system is so corrupted and I don't care about it.i have my problems of my own.we don't trust the system.
Almost all the questions were biased towards the left, or communist viewpoint.
No. But, I would like to point out that my present lack of faith in the election process stems from the Russian interference we've witnessed in our elections in the past and from the amount of voter suppression currently being implemented by the GOP and postmaster general as election day draws near. I do not believe that having more mail in ballots due to COVID-19 will lead to more voter fraud, but I do think that those in power will do everything they can to maintain it.
I'm not really into politics and that's why I really don't know much about politics.
Interesting to see new and. Very different material.
If a Democrat were in power doing the same thing, i would vote him out
Great survey with clear and easy to answer questions
This survey was definitely biased towards democrats, just like everything else in this country these days!! So unfair!! TRUMP 2020!!! DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
I feel like questions regarding whether I would find the election of either major party presidential nominee legitimate or not would depend on whether there was evidence of cheating- not which person we're talking about. So, it was difficult to answer the question.
Instructions were very clear. No feedback.
I was not sure how long representatives were elected for. Senators I am pretty sure is for 4 years.
Nothing to ad here. Thank you for the opportunity..
There has been nothing confusing so far!
This was an interesting topic that really had me thinking. I fairly enjoyed taking this survey.
I had some technical difficulties, it dropped me twice, but immediately let me refresh and keep going, so thanks not too bad.
One page with multiple questions on it started with a question that seemed like I might have missed a page, or maybe the questions on the page were in a randomized order and that question wasn't meant to be first.
This survey seemed biased to me. Some of the questions were slightly confusing
I prayed trump would go into a coma with COVID. Thank you for making this survey it was fun.
I find it annoying that there were questions pertaining about whether or not it was acceptable for Republicans to use violence in political matters, but not, given the amount of violence, riots and murders committed by the left over the summer, any such inquiries about the Democrats/left usage of violence. I am suspect of the potential bias of this survey.
THank you for including me. This was an interesting survey.
This survey doesn't allow respondents to go back and change previous choices, which is a big flaw, like if the respondent changed their mind or accidentally choose a different response then what they intended. It's not that hard to code a back button.
no but thanks 4 letting me be part of YouGov
Were the big words and odd sentences in questions on purpose? Most people who payed attention in high school civics/government class probably made it through, but I bet you forced some not sures or convinced people to look things up once or twice.
No, I had no problems with the survey but a minor glitch where I had to refresh the page and it didn't affect my response to that question. The survey questions seemed pretty clear and straightforward to me (i.e. not confusing).
I am not sure about the terms of a senator or congressman or the prime minister of England
Some of the questions were phrased a little bit confusing but either way I tried my best to understand what was being asked.
nothing. All is right, I have not problem in this survey
I had no problems and the survey was easy to understand. Thank you for this opportunity
The question about term limits for the U.S. president- I put down unlimited number of times because you didn't specify if you were asking how many times an individual could be elected president in a row, but if that is what you were asking, I think you should specify that.
No. This one really made me think. Thanks.
I didn’t know the answers...but that’s all. Sorry. I didn’t look up anything though
This was a very interesting survey. I am compelled to use some of the questions as conversation starters with friends and family. Thank you inviting me to participate in your survey.
Why would you say republicans and violence when its clear the democrats are the ones using violence to intimidate
Thus far, this survey seems to be un-biased.
For the questions about who was the rightful winner, I didn’t know how to answer because I did not know what you meant that that individual “won” the election. Context would matter. And what does “rightful” mean?
There were no aspects of the survey that was confusing
Some of the questions about terms I really was not familiar with them at all. But no problems with the survey, and it was a wide range of topics.
The question about whether it was justified to meet potential democratic violence with violence felt intensely biased, especially considering there was no direct equivalent asking about republican violence.
I have no problem. I take all my Answers to survey questions very serious. I have been answering Surveys questions for a while.
None. I had to take a few calls for work.
i like to do my part in helping to complete this servey
I am an independent and I think this survey is well designed so far.
No questions, it has been pretty good so far.
I did not have any problems completing the survey. I am not sure if I answered the questions correctly. It would be nice when you ask these questions and after the completion provide the correct answers. That is how people will learn if they don't know any of the answers.
Why where some questions asked specifically about republicans but not about democrats?
You asked various questions regarding republican violence but not democratic
I would not trust if Donald Trump won the election because he won the last election with the help of foreign interference and won't guarantee a peaceful transition of power.
No problem with your questions I answer to the best of my ability
I’d like to know if the answers I gave to the political questions were correct or not.
The section on democratic violence at the election was laughable. The armed idiots playing army promising a civil war if trump loses are the ones we need to worry about. And i didn't research the last section. I chose an answer and while rereading it, it closed it out. Either the first and last question we the same or i read the first question wrong.
I hope biden wins because we are tired of a racist who promotes the violence and hate between races, colors, woman, gay, etc...
No problems it was a good interesting survey.
The first set of questions were confusing
The survey is very good and not confusing at all
I miss UChicago, I dropped out from there a few years ago. Best of luck to you all.
On the 2nd question before this I think I answered "yes" to if I looked up answers online. I meant to hit no. Sorry, about that. I have large thumbs.
I didn't encounter any problems, the survey was enjoyable, and thanks for the opportunity!
This is bias clearly toward the Democratic Party and my answers are not reflected in the choices. Democrats will call Republicans voicing their views as hate speech and as threatening only because it is opposite of their opinions
Donald Trump's needs to win or the country will go to hell
Somewhat biased against Republicans. I am not a republican, but I will say they are not the only ones being aggressive and committing the actions described here. Democrats have done the same, and are seeming to get a free pass of any wrongdoing.
The Democrats are threatening Republican voters,if we vote for Trump. Never have I heard any thing about Republicans threatening Democrats
I liked this survey. It was very informative and interesting.
Very interesting questions. Quick and easy to take. No problems, and nothing confusing.
no problems. seemed pretty straight forward
Good questions, the part about violence and threats seemed to be more biased towards republicans specifically being the perpetrators, it would have been more balanced to include both parties or simply not specify a party.
I wasn't sure o some of the answers but I guess that's the point
I feel that it was a little biased towards the Republican side.
their was no confusion on who should be the president and that is a fact, joe biden has dementia and is not fit for the presidency
Survey seems biased against republicans as it asked about violence and threats from them but not the same about democrats.
The survey is actually going well. I am enjoying the questions.
No not confusing just the same surveys all the time every time i pull survey up from this survey site i get the same survey
Algunas preguntas parecen disenadas para una respuesta confusa .quizas en ingles es asi pero es mucho mejor para cualquier estudio hacer preguntas mas claras y directas
No problems, but this was a somewhat odd survey!
Nothing was confusing. I think the election process has become more of tearing down the opponents rather than talking about the issues they are running on.
good survey i think the election will be crazy this year
No problems and nothing was confusing, wish there were some options about what I wish would be the case rather than what I think the case is
At this point the Democrat Party is supporting violence against American's they disagree with. Why did the survey not ask about their actions?
"violence" as a descriptor was poorly defined. I do not support physically assaulting others, I do support protests both peaceful and otherwise.
This feels like a one sided survey. Also, since I have a deep distrust on both parties and not one for censorship, some of the options provided don't feel right to me.
It is difficult to feel this survey is unbias due to the fact that the question of justifiable violence is only asked in relation to the actions of democrats. It is as if the premise is that all violence originating from Republicans is obviously not justifiable, but violence committed by democrats might be. This is nonsense. Like racism, the issue of violence is not the direction in which the violence flows, but the fact that it flows at all, regardless of direction. Grow up.
The question about eliminating the electoral college is so limited it can't capture my true opinion. I support doing away with the electoral college but I don't want a straight popular vote, I want ranked choice/instant runoff voting where the winner MUST get more than 50%.
involving some 3rd party issues rather than just the republican v. democratic issues
The US needs a ranked choice voting system instead of the primaries(two-Party) system that we have now.
Loved answering it. Keep up the good work.
The survey made sense; no questions were difficult to understand. The questions asking if/when violence is justified were thought provoking.
All my American government from when I was in school flew out of my head. That was embarrassing.
Questions about a persons ability to access info about a candidate is a little weak. There should be questions asking about the medias bias against republicans. I have never seen it this bad.
Survey was easy to participate in and quite understandable.