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Ban on Muslims entering US

7 Feb 2017

Q. The US President Donald Trump has temporarily banned people from 7 Muslim countries from entering the United States. Do you approve or disapprove of this ban?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
Total approve 36%   28% 43% 10% 66%
Total disapprove 49%   63% 42% 78% 25%
Strongly approve 13%   9% 14% 5% 31%
Approve 23%   19% 29% 5% 35%
Disapprove 20%   22% 23% 20% 12%
Strongly disapprove 29%   41% 19% 58% 13%
Don’t know 14%   9% 15% 13% 10%

 

36% approve of Donald Trump temporarily banning people from 7 Muslim countries from entering the United States and 49% disapprove.

Those most likely to approve were Liberal/National voters and other/independent voters (66%)

Those most likely to disapprove were Greens voters (78%), Labor voters (63%), aged 18-24 (63%) and university educated (60%).

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