Washington, Feb. 27 (ANI): A majority of Americans think that the Republican Party is out of touch with the country, according to a new poll. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 62 percent of adults say the GOP is out of touch with the American people, 56 percent say it”s not open to change and 52 percent say it”s too extreme, reports Politico. Forty-six percent of adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the American people, 38 percent of people say it”s not open to change and 39 percent say it”s too extreme. Thirty-six percent of Republicans say the GOP is out of touch the American people, compared with 77 percent of Democrats who say the GOP is out of touch, according to the poll. Republicans are more critical of their own party than Democrats are of the Democratic Party. Thirty percent of Republicans say their party is not open to change, while 10 percent of Democrats say their party isn”t open to change. Among independents, 54 percent say the Democratic Party is open to change while only 39 percent of them think the GOP is open to change. The results are based off a telephone survey of 1,504 American adults between February 13 through February 18 and it has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. (ANI)
