{"id":9352,"date":"2020-10-29T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/both-republicans-and-democrats-cite-masks-as-a-negative-effect-of-covid-19-but-for-very-different-reasons\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:06","slug":"both-republicans-and-democrats-cite-masks-as-a-negative-effect-of-covid-19-but-for-very-different-reasons","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/10\/29\/both-republicans-and-democrats-cite-masks-as-a-negative-effect-of-covid-19-but-for-very-different-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Republicans and Democrats cite masks as a negative effect of COVID-19, but for very different reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Anti-mask<\/a>
Anti-mask protesters outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on July 18, 2020. (Jeff Dean\/AFP via Getty Images)\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 outbreak<\/a> has upended life across the United States and exposed growing divisions<\/a> between supporters of the two major political parties. And when Americans are asked to describe in their own words how the outbreak has affected them negatively, no topic divides Democrats and Republicans more than the subject of masks, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey findings collected in late August and early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, 14% of U.S. adults mentioned the word \u201cmask\u201d when asked how the pandemic has made their life difficult or challenging. That made \u201cmask\u201d the fourth most common term in these responses, behind \u201cfamily\u201d and \u201cwork\u201d \u2013 each of which was mentioned by 19% of the public \u2013 and \u201cfriend,\u201d mentioned by 14% of respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>