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title: "Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue (New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/survey-42-of-us-voters-trust-the-gop-and-40-trust-democrats-to-handle-48b339c8
published: 2026-09-16T10:45:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and \<1% say AI is their top midterm issue (New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-16 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/survey-42-of-us-voters-trust-the-gop-and-40-trust-democrats-to-handle-48b339c8

New York Times : Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and — As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found.

In this story: [Data centers](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/data-centers), [AI policy](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-policy)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260916/p14#a260916p14)

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