37/2020
2020-11-16
The Polish View of the US Presidential Election
Four years ago, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were running for the office of president of the United States, the majority of Polish people (57%) were convinced that, from a Polish perspective, it would be better for the Democratic candidate to win. Very few (6%) preferred Donald Trump. Over the last four years Polish people have, to a considerable extent, come round to the incumbent of the White House. Currently two fifths of those surveyed (41%) think that Trump would be a better president than Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee (indicated by 15%). There is a large group of respondents (29%) who have no clear opinion about this, while 15% have no preference. It would seem that, although Joe Biden served as vice president for both terms of Barack Obama’s presidency, he is not very well known in Poland.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (364) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register.
Respondents independently selected one of the following methods:
– Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI);
– Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS;
– Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS.
– Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI);
– Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS;
– Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS.
In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 28 September and 8 October 2020 inclusive on a sample of 1133 people (65.3% using the CAPI method, 22.9% CATI and 11.7% CAWI).
