Democratic Party holds wide advantages over GOP on environmental policy, abortion and contraception; Republican Party’s edge on gun policy slips | Pew Research Center

June 19, 2018

3. Views of the parties, Congress

Democratic Party holds wide advantages over GOP on environmental policy, abortion and contraception; Republican Party’s edge on gun policy slips

Democratic Party holds wide advantages over GOP on environmental policy, abortion and contraception; Republican Party’s edge on gun policy slips

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3. Views of the parties, Congress
Democrats hold large advantage over GOP on several issues; Republican Party leads on the economy
Republican Party now enjoys advantage on economy; Democrats continue to be preferred on health care, immigration issues
Public prefers GOP on dealing with terrorist threat, Democrats on foreign policy
Democratic Party holds wide advantages over GOP on environmental policy, abortion and contraception; Republican Party’s edge on gun policy slips
Wide partisan gap in assessments of how productive the current Congress has been
Among those who see a less productive Congress, most say GOP is to blame
Congressional leaders of both parties receive poor marks from the public
Roughly half of partisans approve of their own party’s congressional leaders
Growing share cites immigration as most important issue facing the U.S.
Partisan differences in views of the most important problem facing nation