MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to a poll by the Economist/YouGov, published on Tuesday, 24 percent of respondents said they believed that the chances of a terrorist attack happening in the United States in the near future are high (over 50 percent), compared to 18 percent who thought so prior to the June attacks.
Among those who identified as Republicans, the number is significantly higher, with 34 percent of such respondents concerned about an imminent attack versus 14 percent of Democrats.
The poll was conducted on June 27-29 among 1,000 US citizens, drawn from across the country.
A previous spike in unease about the threat of a terrorist act was identified by YouGov in October 2014, following a car attack on two Canadian soldiers near Montreal and the deadly shooting of a soldier guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa. At the time, 28 percent of respondents had a heightened sense of the threat of terrorism compared to only 11 percent at the beginning of 2014.
In June, the Islamic State took responsibility for two terrorist attacks that killed more than 60 people in Tunisia and Kuwait.
Another terrorist attack in June occurred at a US-owned gas factory near France's second-largest city of Lyon, leaving one dead and two injured.
