FDR: "We have nothing to fear except fear itself," 2014 voters: "Ebola! ISIS! We're all gonna die!!"
Thanks for whipping up the fear, lib'rul media!
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the isolated cases in the U.S., has dominated the news cycle leading up to Election Day. A majority of voters – 60% – said they have been following news about Ebola. A Pew Research Center study from mid-October found that the public’s interest in Ebola eclipsed other major news stories, including airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the midterm election itself.
Voters are pretty evenly divided on the U.S. government’s response to Ebola, with 51% disapproving and just 43% of voters approving, according to the NBC News national exit poll. Voters seemed to respond to the question of the government’s response along partisan lines, though. About two-thirds of Democrats – 64% – approve, but only about one-quarter of Republicans – 28% – give positive marks to the federal government’s handling of Ebola.
The Obama administration has much more support for the current U.S. military action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Overall, 57% of voters today approve of those efforts. And that approval crosses party lines. Sixty percent of Democrats and nearly as many Republicans – 55% – approve of the current military strikes against the Islamic terror group, which has executed a number of western citizens and taken control of swaths of Syria and northern Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ebola-isis-voters-react