Wide partisan divide in knowledge of Trump's issue positions How much would you say you facing know about where stands on the important issues facing the country?
The first presidential debate Monday night offers Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton an opportunity to explain their positions on important issues facing the country. Two months after the party conventions, only about half of voters (48%) say they know “a lot” about where Clinton stands on important issues, while even fewer (41%) say this about Trump.
Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party are roughly twice as likely as Democrats and Democratic leaners to say they know a lot about where Trump stands on important issues (58% vs. 30%). Nearly four-in-ten Democrats (39%) say they know little or nothing about where he stands.
Wide partisan divide in knowledge of  | Trump's issue positions  | How much would you say you facing know about where  | stands on the important issues facing the country?  | Not much/  | Nothing  | lot  | Some  | atall  | Donald Trump  | All voters  | 41  | 27  | 30  | Rep/Lean Rep  | 58  | 27  | 15  | Dem/Lean Dem  | 30  | 39  | 27  | Hillary Clinton  | 18  | All voters  | 48  | 32  | Rep/Lean Rep  | 46  | 29  | 24  | Dem/Lean Dem  | 37  | 54  | 8  | Notes: Based on registered voters.  | Don It know/ Refused responses notshown.  | Source: Survey cond ucted Sept. 15-18 2016.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 