{"id":1077266,"date":"2021-12-02T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077266"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:00:00","slug":"poll-80-of-democrat-voters-afraid-of-omicron-only-35-of-republicans-are-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-80-of-democrat-voters-afraid-of-omicron-only-35-of-republicans-are-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 80% of Democrat voters afraid of Omicron, only 35% of Republicans are concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-80-of-democrat-voters-afraid-of-omicron-only-35-of-republicans-are-concerned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2600526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2600526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passer-by enters a pharmacy with a vaccination advisory attached to a door, right, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in Worcester, Mass. as the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant. (AP Photo\/Steven Senne)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:59 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, December 2, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The majority of Democrat voters are found to be afraid of the Omicron variant despite all of its cases being very mild. <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2021\/11\/30\/omicron-variant-concern\">A poll released by YouGov Wednesday<\/a> found 80 percent of registered Democrats said they are either \u201cvery concerned\u201d or \u201csomewhat concerned\u201d about the latest variant.<\/p>\n<p>Only 35 percent of Republicans are feeling the same way. Furthermore, 87 percent of Americans have heard about the variant due to its extensive coverage in the media. This comes despite officials in South Africa and Botswana saying they did not have a rise in hospitalizations or deaths due to Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe<\/strong> response<strong> by some countries to our detection of the Omicron variant is unfortunate as it appears to have caused unnecessary panic amongst the public across the world,\u201d stated Mokgweetsi Masisi, the President of Botswana. \u201cTo date all our key indicators remain stable, this is comforting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also found the majority of Republican voters, 59 percent, said they are \u201cnot very concerned\u201d or \u201cnot concerned\u201d at all about Omicron despite the latest media frenzy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cDemocrat<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> poll numbers are cratering, so the White House is stoking up unscientific fears about emerging variants to justify their unpopular policies,\u201d noted Texas congressman Ronny Jackson. \u201cThis is a calculated political decision. Where is the science that\u2019s dictating their heavy-handed response to the <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Omicron<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> variant?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Republican lawmaker asserted that the left is simply using this new variant scare to further push lockdowns, vaccine mandates and other coronavirus restrictions. He insisted that the whole thing is political, not scientific.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/pfizer-ceo-says-booster-shots-could-be-required-annually\/\">Pfizer CEO Says Booster Shots Could Be Required Annually<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passer-by enters a pharmacy with a vaccination advisory attached to a door, right, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in Worcester, Mass. as the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}