Poll takeaways: What one word describes Putin? We asked. The answers weren’t pretty.
- A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University polls surveyed U.S. residents of Ukrainian and Russian descent.
- They found very few back Russian President Putin but most support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Survey respondents are also split on whether Trump would have handled the crisis better than Biden.
What one word best describes Vladimir Putin?
In a pair of exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University polls, we asked 500 U.S. residents of Ukrainian descent and 500 residents of Russian descent that question. The answers weren’t pretty – and they weren’t different.
The most frequent response from both groups was “dictator” or “tyrant.” The second was “evil” or “monster.” Near the top of both lists were also “crazy/insane” and a catchall that sounds something like the title of a famous children’s book: “awful/horrible/despicable/terrible.”