Issues in the Election!

By Divine Design News Service

With just a few days remaining before Americans voters decide who will become the leader of the world’s most powerful nation, the issues of race, immigration, terminating pregnancy and healthcare are driving the choices of the electorate, according to a recent national poll.

The electorate is divided on the issue of race. The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center in Washington, found that forty-one percent of the respondents believed that too little attention is being paid to race issues in the country, while thirty-nine percent believed that race received too much attention.

The survey found that sixty-five percent of those voters who support Donald Trump believed that race received too much attention while sixty percent of those who support Hillary Clinton said that racial issues did not receive the attention that they should receive.

According to the poll, African Americans and Hispanics polled, overwhelming said that too little attention was paid to racial issues in American society. Sixty-six percent of African American respondents, and fifty-two percent of Hispanics said that more attention needed to be focused race related topics and issues.

On the issue of immigration, the poll found that ninety-five percent of the respondents who supported Clinton believed that undocumented workers should have a path of citizenship, while sixty percent of those who called themselves Trump supports agreed.

Nearly forty percent of those who identified themselves as supporters of Trump said that undocumented workers should be deported from the country. At the same time, only one percent of the respondents who identified themselves as supporters of Clinton said that undocumented workers should be barred from living in America.

The Pew poll found that more than sixty percent of all Americans believed that terminating pregnancy should be legal in the majority of situations.

Eighty-two percent of those who said that they supported Clinton said that a woman should have the right to terminate a pregnancy while sixty percent of those who supported Trump said that the procedure should be illegal.  Thirty-six of those who supported Trump agreed with the majority of Clinton supports on the issue.

When it comes to President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act, Eighty-two percent of those who support Clinton approve of the healthcare law, while ninety-four percent of those supporting Trump say that the law should be repealed, even though more that 20 million Americans have healthcare insurance under the law and the Supreme Court held that the legislation was constitutional.