‘TwitterGate’? 63% Want FBI’s Social Media Activity Investigated - Demographics
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National Survey of 900 U.S. Likely Voters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conducted December 19-21, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Income | Education | Employment | Biden Approval | Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the FBI? | How likely is it that the FBI encouraged social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to “suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers”? | Should Congress investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring information on social media sites? | Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI ... as Joe Biden's personal Gestapo"? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LV's | Male | Female | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Democrat | Republican | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not sure | Under $30,000 | $30,000 - $50,000 | $50,000 - $100,000 | $100,000 - $200,000 | More than $200,000 | Not sure | Attended high school, but did not graduate | High school graduate | Attended college, but did not complete | College graduate | Graduate school | Not sure | Gov't | Entrepreneur | Private Co. | Retired | Other | Strongly approve | Somewhat approve | Somewhat disapprove | Strongly disapprove | Not sure | Very favorable | Somewhat favorable | Somewhat unfavorable | Very unfavorable | Not sure | Very likely | Somewhat likely | Not very likely | Not at all likely | Not sure | Yes | No | Not sure | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Not sure | ||
Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the FBI? | Very favorable | 20% | 22% | 17% | 18% | 21% | 19% | 21% | 20% | 13% | 33% | 10% | 14% | 17% | 22% | 24% | 6% | 13% | 15% | 20% | 27% | 24% | 24% | 28% | 23% | 12% | 17% | 27% | 16% | 33% | 22% | 19% | 19% | 13% | 56% | 12% | 9% | 1% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 15% | 12% | 28% | 48% | 15% | 12% | 38% | 22% | 16% | 8% | 13% | 37% | 5% |
Somewhat favorable | 30% | 26% | 34% | 34% | 29% | 28% | 30% | 28% | 33% | 41% | 24% | 26% | 17% | 38% | 47% | 22% | 31% | 34% | 28% | 31% | 40% | 17% | 24% | 25% | 29% | 34% | 31% | 30% | 29% | 30% | 40% | 25% | 25% | 30% | 64% | 38% | 14% | 39% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 9% | 49% | 54% | 27% | 43% | 21% | 43% | 52% | 11% | 37% | 31% | 50% | 37% | |
Somewhat unfavorable | 20% | 21% | 19% | 25% | 19% | 15% | 19% | 17% | 23% | 11% | 22% | 27% | 22% | 21% | 14% | 19% | 24% | 24% | 13% | 22% | 15% | 23% | 11% | 26% | 25% | 18% | 15% | 19% | 19% | 19% | 16% | 21% | 25% | 8% | 16% | 34% | 27% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 21% | 29% | 15% | 9% | 15% | 25% | 13% | 9% | 15% | 42% | 39% | 7% | 20% | |
Very unfavorable | 26% | 27% | 24% | 13% | 28% | 36% | 26% | 25% | 25% | 10% | 40% | 28% | 41% | 16% | 8% | 23% | 29% | 23% | 33% | 17% | 20% | 17% | 27% | 22% | 27% | 28% | 24% | 4% | 16% | 27% | 20% | 34% | 24% | 3% | 3% | 14% | 54% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 54% | 4% | 2% | 9% | 4% | 39% | 3% | 3% | 56% | 11% | 12% | 3% | 13% | |
Not sure | 5% | 4% | 6% | 11% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 10% | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 7% | 29% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 0% | 20% | 9% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 31% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 13% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 55% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 1% | 5% | 1% | 6% | 22% | 3% | 3% | 14% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 26% | |
Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Income | Education | Employment | Biden Approval | Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the FBI? | How likely is it that the FBI encouraged social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to “suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers”? | Should Congress investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring information on social media sites? | Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI ... as Joe Biden's personal Gestapo"? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LV's | Male | Female | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Democrat | Republican | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not sure | Under $30,000 | $30,000 - $50,000 | $50,000 - $100,000 | $100,000 - $200,000 | More than $200,000 | Not sure | Attended high school, but did not graduate | High school graduate | Attended college, but did not complete | College graduate | Graduate school | Not sure | Gov't | Entrepreneur | Private Co. | Retired | Other | Strongly approve | Somewhat approve | Somewhat disapprove | Strongly disapprove | Not sure | Very favorable | Somewhat favorable | Somewhat unfavorable | Very unfavorable | Not sure | Very likely | Somewhat likely | Not very likely | Not at all likely | Not sure | Yes | No | Not sure | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Not sure | ||
How likely is it that the FBI encouraged social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to “suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers”? | Very likely | 43% | 51% | 35% | 32% | 48% | 46% | 44% | 37% | 41% | 30% | 55% | 44% | 69% | 30% | 15% | 19% | 45% | 38% | 47% | 43% | 39% | 34% | 46% | 41% | 46% | 40% | 46% | 7% | 47% | 49% | 37% | 50% | 32% | 28% | 11% | 29% | 72% | 4% | 32% | 13% | 45% | 90% | 11% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 64% | 9% | 4% | 85% | 45% | 12% | 5% | 19% |
Somewhat likely | 20% | 18% | 21% | 31% | 15% | 13% | 18% | 16% | 26% | 22% | 21% | 16% | 15% | 22% | 25% | 21% | 20% | 28% | 11% | 23% | 31% | 10% | 21% | 25% | 14% | 22% | 14% | 46% | 23% | 21% | 25% | 11% | 23% | 15% | 36% | 22% | 15% | 15% | 12% | 32% | 29% | 3% | 22% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 21% | 14% | 24% | 8% | 42% | 33% | 17% | 21% | |
Not very likely | 18% | 17% | 19% | 20% | 17% | 16% | 16% | 24% | 19% | 22% | 9% | 23% | 7% | 26% | 28% | 16% | 19% | 18% | 19% | 17% | 14% | 17% | 18% | 19% | 18% | 17% | 19% | 16% | 16% | 15% | 21% | 16% | 21% | 25% | 30% | 37% | 5% | 0% | 26% | 32% | 13% | 2% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 7% | 44% | 29% | 4% | 6% | 39% | 38% | 11% | |
Not at all likely | 9% | 7% | 10% | 4% | 11% | 10% | 10% | 9% | 5% | 12% | 6% | 7% | 3% | 11% | 17% | 0% | 5% | 8% | 11% | 10% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 7% | 4% | 10% | 11% | 0% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 11% | 7% | 21% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 6% | 21% | 8% | 4% | 3% | 11% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 2% | 27% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 26% | 1% | |
Not sure | 11% | 7% | 15% | 12% | 8% | 15% | 11% | 14% | 9% | 14% | 10% | 9% | 7% | 11% | 15% | 44% | 10% | 9% | 12% | 7% | 8% | 31% | 9% | 7% | 17% | 10% | 10% | 31% | 6% | 9% | 10% | 12% | 17% | 11% | 15% | 10% | 6% | 74% | 9% | 16% | 9% | 2% | 51% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 7% | 7% | 36% | 2% | 6% | 12% | 14% | 48% | |
Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Income | Education | Employment | Biden Approval | Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the FBI? | How likely is it that the FBI encouraged social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to “suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers”? | Should Congress investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring information on social media sites? | Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI ... as Joe Biden's personal Gestapo"? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LV's | Male | Female | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Democrat | Republican | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not sure | Under $30,000 | $30,000 - $50,000 | $50,000 - $100,000 | $100,000 - $200,000 | More than $200,000 | Not sure | Attended high school, but did not graduate | High school graduate | Attended college, but did not complete | College graduate | Graduate school | Not sure | Gov't | Entrepreneur | Private Co. | Retired | Other | Strongly approve | Somewhat approve | Somewhat disapprove | Strongly disapprove | Not sure | Very favorable | Somewhat favorable | Somewhat unfavorable | Very unfavorable | Not sure | Very likely | Somewhat likely | Not very likely | Not at all likely | Not sure | Yes | No | Not sure | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Not sure | ||
Should Congress investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring information on social media sites? | Yes | 63% | 68% | 59% | 67% | 63% | 59% | 63% | 58% | 68% | 52% | 75% | 63% | 85% | 50% | 42% | 48% | 68% | 57% | 62% | 68% | 65% | 57% | 68% | 66% | 62% | 68% | 56% | 38% | 67% | 80% | 61% | 61% | 57% | 41% | 47% | 56% | 88% | 41% | 40% | 44% | 79% | 96% | 42% | 94% | 67% | 23% | 18% | 38% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93% | 82% | 57% | 20% | 52% |
No | 22% | 20% | 23% | 18% | 23% | 24% | 22% | 21% | 20% | 27% | 13% | 25% | 9% | 31% | 36% | 8% | 14% | 26% | 25% | 20% | 24% | 16% | 23% | 19% | 20% | 19% | 29% | 32% | 20% | 12% | 26% | 24% | 19% | 41% | 32% | 23% | 5% | 0% | 43% | 31% | 14% | 3% | 15% | 4% | 15% | 53% | 69% | 13% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 5% | 10% | 23% | 53% | 10% | |
Not sure | 15% | 11% | 18% | 15% | 14% | 17% | 15% | 21% | 11% | 20% | 12% | 12% | 6% | 18% | 22% | 44% | 18% | 17% | 12% | 12% | 11% | 27% | 9% | 16% | 18% | 13% | 15% | 31% | 13% | 8% | 14% | 15% | 23% | 18% | 21% | 21% | 7% | 59% | 17% | 25% | 7% | 2% | 43% | 1% | 18% | 24% | 13% | 49% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 2% | 9% | 20% | 26% | 38% | |
Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Income | Education | Employment | Biden Approval | Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the FBI? | How likely is it that the FBI encouraged social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to “suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers”? | Should Congress investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring information on social media sites? | Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI ... as Joe Biden's personal Gestapo"? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LV's | Male | Female | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Democrat | Republican | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | Not sure | Under $30,000 | $30,000 - $50,000 | $50,000 - $100,000 | $100,000 - $200,000 | More than $200,000 | Not sure | Attended high school, but did not graduate | High school graduate | Attended college, but did not complete | College graduate | Graduate school | Not sure | Gov't | Entrepreneur | Private Co. | Retired | Other | Strongly approve | Somewhat approve | Somewhat disapprove | Strongly disapprove | Not sure | Very favorable | Somewhat favorable | Somewhat unfavorable | Very unfavorable | Not sure | Very likely | Somewhat likely | Not very likely | Not at all likely | Not sure | Yes | No | Not sure | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | Not sure | ||
Do you agree or disagree with this statement: There is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI ... as Joe Biden's personal Gestapo"? | Strongly agree | 37% | 44% | 30% | 26% | 42% | 40% | 39% | 30% | 33% | 24% | 52% | 34% | 63% | 20% | 12% | 18% | 44% | 30% | 35% | 42% | 35% | 32% | 50% | 33% | 41% | 36% | 35% | 20% | 40% | 45% | 29% | 42% | 32% | 24% | 11% | 11% | 64% | 6% | 31% | 13% | 28% | 80% | 17% | 73% | 15% | 8% | 7% | 6% | 54% | 9% | 6% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Somewhat agree | 16% | 17% | 16% | 28% | 11% | 13% | 15% | 18% | 20% | 11% | 20% | 18% | 19% | 17% | 12% | 14% | 10% | 22% | 17% | 13% | 25% | 14% | 17% | 18% | 16% | 17% | 16% | 0% | 22% | 17% | 19% | 14% | 12% | 4% | 20% | 28% | 21% | 6% | 7% | 20% | 35% | 7% | 8% | 17% | 35% | 6% | 1% | 8% | 21% | 7% | 9% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |
Somewhat disagree | 9% | 8% | 10% | 19% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 18% | 15% | 10% | 6% | 11% | 5% | 13% | 11% | 23% | 8% | 13% | 9% | 9% | 1% | 12% | 11% | 18% | 5% | 9% | 4% | 30% | 8% | 12% | 10% | 5% | 15% | 5% | 15% | 31% | 4% | 19% | 6% | 9% | 18% | 4% | 10% | 3% | 15% | 20% | 4% | 10% | 8% | 10% | 12% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0% | |
Strongly disagree | 29% | 23% | 34% | 15% | 34% | 35% | 32% | 21% | 23% | 48% | 10% | 27% | 6% | 38% | 62% | 5% | 28% | 26% | 29% | 31% | 35% | 22% | 15% | 20% | 26% | 29% | 41% | 23% | 29% | 17% | 31% | 33% | 27% | 64% | 44% | 19% | 2% | 4% | 55% | 47% | 11% | 3% | 17% | 4% | 25% | 60% | 86% | 36% | 9% | 70% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | |
Not sure | 9% | 7% | 11% | 12% | 9% | 6% | 9% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 12% | 4% | 40% | 10% | 9% | 11% | 5% | 3% | 19% | 7% | 10% | 11% | 9% | 5% | 28% | 2% | 9% | 12% | 6% | 14% | 3% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 64% | 2% | 11% | 9% | 5% | 48% | 4% | 10% | 6% | 1% | 39% | 8% | 4% | 23% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | |
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Gender | Male | 48% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Female | 52% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Age | 18-39 | 32% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40-64 | 46% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65+ | 22% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Race | White | 67% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black | 13% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other | 20% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Party | Republican | 33% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Democrat | 35% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other | 32% |