Americans have less favorable attitudes toward Arab and Muslim communities in the U.S. today than they did five years ago, and their sentiments reflect "a deep partisan divide," a new poll has found.
Since 2010, favorable attitudes dropped 9 percentage points -- from 49 percent to 40 percent -- for American Arabs and 15 percentage points -- from 48 percent to 33 percent -- for American Muslims, according to the poll by Zogby Analytics, a nonpartisan research firm based in upstate New York.