CBS News poll analysis: Who wants to end or keep the filibuster?

Even as many Democrats tend to rank the economy, inflation and COVID-19 among top issues, most Democrats do say it is also "very important" to pass a voting rights bill, and two-thirds of Americans overall say it's at least somewhat important, as this week's CBS News poll showed. 

Meanwhile, a majority of Democrats have certainly had their fill of the filibuster: they'd end it, as a general matter. But two-thirds of Republicans say they'd keep it. 

That partisan split over the filibuster, a move by the minority to extend Senate debate and prevent it from receiving a vote on the floor, in principle, appears strongly connected to more immediate policy concerns. Of the Democrats who feel it's very important to pass a voting rights bill now, an even higher portion, seven in 10, would generally end the filibuster. That, of course, is the measure over which some Democratic leaders have discussed ending it.