多數美國民衆認爲國家路線不正確

Americans are divided along racial lines but agree that the United States is on the wrong track and the economy is the top priority, according to an opinion poll conducted by USA Today, ABC News and Columbia University released yesterday.

Eighty percent of blacks and Hispanics and 76 percent of whites surveyed said the economy should be the next president's highest priority.

Seventy-eight percent of all respondents said the country was on the wrong track. Broken down along racial lines, 77 percent of whites held that view, 91 percent of blacks and 74 percent of Hispanics.

However, the survey finds a sharp racial divide over who the next president will be.

Seven in 10 blacks expect Barack Obama, the first African American to be nominated for president by a major party, to defeat Senator John McCain in the Nov 4 election, the poll found.

Among registered voters, blacks support Democratic presidential nominee Obama by 92 percent to 4 percent. Hispanics back the Illinois senator by 57 percent to 33 percent.

Whites support Republican nominee McCain by 56 percent to 36 percent, the poll found.

Among the 13 percent of blacks who predict McCain will prevail, racism was the reason most often cited.

The 50 percent of whites who expect the Arizona senator to win were more likely to cite the candidates' levels of experience as the reason. Only 5 percent of whites who say McCain will win say racism is the key factor.

The telephone survey was conducted between September 11-14, just before news hit of the scale of the economic crisis that has prompted the Bush administration to propose a massive bailout plan for Wall Street.

The poll's margin of error was plus or minus two percentage points.

美國廣播公司（ABC News）和哥倫比亞大學昨日公佈的一項民意調查顯示，美國人雖有種族之分，但多數美國人一致認爲美國現行的國家路線不正確，而且經濟應該是國家的頭等大事。

該項由《今日美國》開展的調查顯示，80%的黑人和西班牙裔以及76%的白人認爲，經濟應是下任總統需考慮的首要問題。

調查顯示，78%的受訪者認爲國家走錯了方向。關於“路線”問題的看法種族分歧並不明顯，分別有77%的白人、91%的黑人和74%的西班牙裔持這一觀點。

但有關誰將成爲下任總統問題的看法卻存在明顯分歧。

民調顯示，70%的黑人受訪者認爲民主黨候選人奧巴馬能在11月4日的大選中戰勝共和黨候選人約翰•麥凱恩，成爲美國下任總統。奧巴馬是美國曆史上首位被主要政黨提名的非裔總統候選人。

此外，奧巴馬和麥凱恩在黑人註冊選民中的支持率分別爲92%和4%，在西班牙裔中分別爲57%和33%。

而在白人選民中，麥凱恩和這位伊利諾斯州議員的支持率分別爲56%和36%。

在13%預測麥凱恩將贏得大選的黑人受訪者看來，種族是決定競選結果的主要因素。

而50%支持這位亞利桑那州議員的白人受訪者則認爲，候選人的經驗是主要因素，僅有5%的人認爲種族最重要。

這項電話調查於本月11日至14日開展，此後美國便遭受了華爾街金融危機的重襲，爲了應對危機，布什政府提出了一項龐大的金融救助計劃。

該調查的誤差率爲正負2%。