Poll: Americans see US increasingly divided on big issues

By Daniel Chaitin

Published November 27, 2016 1:24pm ET

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Poll: Americans see US increasingly divided on big issues — Over half of the respondents (58 percent) also said that they are "dissatisfied" with democracy in the U.S., which comes on the heels of an election where President-elect Trump won the Electoral College vote, but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo)

More than eight in 10 Americans believe the U.S. is more deeply divided on major issues this year in comparison to past years, according to a new poll released Sunday morning.

Eighty-five percent of respondents agreed that the country is more fractured on these issues, a 7 percent bump from when the same question was asked in February, according to the CNN/ORC poll.

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