While the Marquette Law School Poll conducted live telephone interviews with 800 registered voters January 8-12, we also conducted a supplemental study online with 201 Wisconsin residents asking them to express in their own words what they think (1) is “the most important problem facing the country today”, (2) what “the Republican party stands for these days”, and (3) what “the Democratic party stands for these days”.

The responses to these questions along with some demographic categories can be viewed below. The table can be filtered and sorted by any column. The responses have not been edited for typographical or other errors. Rather than make such changes, we simply present what respondents entered as their responses. Our policy is only to remove profanities, slurs, and personally identifiable information.

This online survey is selected from a panel of people who have agreed to respond to online polls and is selected to be demographically similar to the Wisconsin adult population. It is not intended to estimate the balance of partisanship in the state. Our goal with this supplement is to capture the flavor of how people feel about political issues “in their own words.”