Polls prove major divides amongst voters
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When asked whether tuition at public colleges and universities should be free, the results were even starker. Seventy-four percent of Democrats answered yes and 19% answered no, compared to 31% of Republicans responding yes, and 62% no.
MSN polls its readers and then uses machine learning to model how a representative sample of the US would have responded, using big data, such as the Census. It's as accurate as a traditional, scientific survey.
Higher education issues have become the site of a burgeoning culture war. Conservatives often claim colleges are bastions of liberalism, and argue that conservatives don't have a place to voice their opinions on campus.
And on the issue of college affordability, politicians split along party lines. Prominent Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren have all called for free public college for families under a certain income limit.