America Loves Pope Francis, But Not His Stance on Climate Change: Bloomberg Poll
The pope rates highly across all demographics, ideologies, and age groups.
Pope Francis sits in a car after arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Sept. 22, 2015.
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Americans love Pope Francis and his forgiveness agenda, but they're less enthusiastic about the judgments he's making about secular issues such as the the debate over climate change and income inequality, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll completed on the eve of the pope's arrival for his first visit to the United States.
The survey gave Francis a 64 percent favorability rating, considerably higher than those of all the U.S. political leaders the poll asked about, and twice that of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.