The issues of race and politics are in the news after officials in cities across the country are calling for Confederate monuments to come down. But most voters think politicians aren't sincere when it comes to their motives for raising racial issues.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of Likely U.S. Voters believe most politicians raise racial issues to get elected, while 13% think these issues are raised by politicians who want to address real problems. Another 14% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 23-24, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.