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More U.S. voters view parties as divided: poll

Xinhua, May 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

An increasing percentage of voters in both the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States now view their parties as divided, a new national poll said on Monday.

As many as 49 percent of GOP voters now say the Republican party is divided and will remain so in the general election in November, up by 3 percent compared with that in March, according to the CNN/ORC poll.

The sentiment is more common among non-(Donald) Trump GOP voters, 60 percent of whom say that the party is and will remain split in November.

On the Democratic side, 69 percent say that the party is split, as compared to 59 percent in March, and nearly one in four Democratic voters now believe that the party is likely to remain divided through November.

Meanwhile, the poll showed that an overwhelming majority of U.S. voters now believe that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, currently the front-runners for the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, will win each party's nomination.

A total of 84 percent of voters -- regardless of their party allegiance -- think Trump will notch the GOP nomination, and 85 percent of all voters believe that Clinton will clinch the Democratic nomination. Endi