Views about government aid to the poor among democrats and Democratic leaners by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among democrats and Democratic leaners by views about government aid to the poor
% of democrats and Democratic leaners who say government aid to the poor…
Interpreting scripture | Does more harm than good | Does more good than harm | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 32% | 63% | 3% | 2% | 3,427 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 28% | 68% | 3% | 1% | 3,568 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 33% | 52% | 10% | 5% | 275 |
Not the word of God | 19% | 77% | 3% | 1% | 7,310 |
Other/don't know | 23% | 64% | 8% | 4% | 1,102 |
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