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PDFRepublicans and Democrats agree that defending national security interests and securing energy supplies are the top U.S. foreign policy priorities, Gallup reports, but part ways on the importance of promoting human rights and international cooperation.
The starkest divergence is over the question of working through the United Nations to achieve global cooperation, while there is also a 20-point gap in the importance assigned to promoting human rights abroad.
“Although roughly equal percentages of Republicans and Democrats rate democracy building as a very important goal, it ranks eighth among Republicans versus ninth among Democrats,” Gallup notes.
