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Disaffecteds 11% of the public What They Believe • Highly critical of both government and business • Sympathetic to the poor and supportive of social welfare programs • Concerned about immigration • Majority believes the country can't solve many of its important problems • Religious and socially conservative Who They Are • Most financially stressed of the groups: nearly half describe their household as "struggling" • 71% have experienced unemployment in their household in the past 12 months • About two-thirds have only a high school education or less • Compared with the national average of 33%, more are parents (44%) • 26% have a U.S. passport — well below the national average • 23% follow NASCAR racing How this group compares to the rest of the country on key issues … Disaffecteds General Public Key Beliefs of Disaffecteds versus the General Public • Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient • Disaffecteds 73% • General Public 55% • Business corporations make too much profit • Disaffecteds 73% • General Public 54% • I often don't have enough money to make ends meet • Disaffecteds 83% • General Public 43% • Religion is a very important part of my life • Disaffecteds 84% • General Public 71% • The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt • Disaffecteds 61% • General Public 41% • Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care • Disaffecteds 64% • General Public 44% • This country can't solve many of its important problems • Disaffecteds 56% • General Public 37% • We should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home • Disaffecteds 73% • General Public