How this group compares to the rest of the country on key issues …

  Hard-Pressed Democrats

 General Public

Key Beliefs of Hard-Pressed Democrats versus the General Public

• Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 68%
• General Public 55%

• Business corporations make too much profit
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 79%
• General Public 54%

• The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 60%
• General Public 41%

• Our country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 62%
• General Public 45%

• Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 76%
• General Public 44%

• I often don't have enough money to make ends meet
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 68%
• General Public 43%

• It is necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 75%
• General Public 48%

• This country can't solve many of its important problems
• Hard-Pressed Democrats 48%
• General Public 37%