Survey Says Floridians Are Over Political Bickering: Do You Agree?

The University of South Florida has released its annual Sunshine State Survey and the results don’t look so good for leaders who like to play party politics.

The annual poll conducted by USF’s School of Public Affairs and Nielsen involved 1,875 telephone interviews with a random sample of Florida adults between July 30 and Aug. 15. Those who responded to the poll were asked to name what they saw as the “biggest divide hampering problem solutions” is in Florida today.

“Floridians see political differences as the deepest divide,” the survey’s authors wrote. About 45 percent of those polled said partisan differences or differences between elected officials and average Joe citizens were the “sharpest dividing line.”

When it comes to Florida’s major issues, poll respondents listed these issues as the top ones facing Florida today:

• The economy and jobs, 30 percent
• Education, 12 percent
• Crime and immigration, 5 percent each
• Environment/oil drilling, climate change 4 percent

Check out the full results online.

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