When asked which statement came closest to their views, 46 percent said, "We cannot be sure about who is primarily responsible for hacking and cyber-attacks that may have impacted the US election."
Respondents said tracing cyber-attacks is complicated and the intelligence groups now claiming Russian meddling "are the same ones that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
Twenty-nine percent of respondents agreed with the statement, "We know with near certainty that Russia is responsible for hacking and cyber-attacks that impacted the US election."
Those respondents said that US intelligence agencies have used advanced techniques to determine who is responsible for the cyberattacks "and we are only playing into an unfriendly country's hand when we deny this.
In general, the responses followed opinions along party lines, with 63 percent of Republicans and 28 percent of Democrats saying the United States cannot be sure about the origin of the attacks, according to the poll.
Outgoing President Barack Obama suggested during his last news conference on Friday that the cyberattacks were likely initiated at the highest levels of the Russian government.
Russian officials have repeatedly denied Washington’s claims of election-meddling, characterizing them as absurd and an attempt to distract Americans from domestic issues.
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