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# State of the nation
- URL: https://werd.io/the-19th-newssurveymonkey-poll/
- Published: 2022-09-15T16:33:28.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-15T16:33:28.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

My colleagues at [The 19th](https://19thnews.org) just launched our [first nationwide poll](https://19thnews.org/polling/2022/):

> In the weeks leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, The 19th and SurveyMonkey teamed up to conduct a poll to find out what women, particularly women of color, and LGBTQ+ people think about politics, politicians and policy.

It’s an important survey, and there were some interesting findings.

For example, [70% of Americans don’t trust politicians to make abortion policy](https://19thnews.org/2022/09/poll-americans-abortion-law-politicians/):

> That distrust spans the political aisle: 70 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of Democrats said politicians were insufficiently informed about abortion. It was also consistent across men, women and gender-nonconforming Americans.

[LGBTQ+ Americans are more likely to experience healthcare discrimination](https://19thnews.org/2022/09/poll-healthcare-lgbtq-medical-discrimination/):

> Twenty-four percent of LGBTQ+ Americans said they had been blamed for their health problems while visiting a health care provider, compared with 9 percent of non-LGBTQ+ people. For LGBTQ+ and gender-nonconforming people, or those who said their gender was not male or female in addition to being LGBTQ+, that number jumped to 40 percent.

There’s significantly more to explore. [You can read more over on the 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll homepage](https://19thnews.org/polling/2022/). And [the full data is available to explore over on SurveyMonkey’s site](https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/19th-august-2022/).