 | CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney |
(CNN) -Amid discussion an increasingly charged political atmosphere may have motivated the shootings in Arizona, a new national poll suggests a majority of Americans believe the heated rhetoric of late played no role in the tragedy that critically injured a congresswoman and left six dead.
According to a new CBS poll, 57 percent of Americans say political vitriol did not contribute to the attacks allegedly committed by 22 year-old Jared Loughner; 32 percent felt it did.
Broken down by party, 69 percent of Republicans said heated political dialogue played no role, while 19 percent said it did. Democrats were more mixed on the issue: 49 percent said there was no link while 42 percent believed there was. Fifty-six percent of independents meanwhile said there was no connection while 33 percent said there was.
The poll surveyed 673 adults by telephone and carries a sampling error of 4 percent.
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"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," Dupnik said. "Unfortunately, Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
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