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| Nov 19, 2020 at 2:27 | comment | added | Barmar | @StephenS Yes, how you ask matters, and I think the polls have tried to adjust for this. What they probably love even more is "universible health care". Unless you then say something like "like they have in Canada and England", because there's been plenty of propaganda demonizing those systems. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 2:24 | comment | added | StephenS | @eyeballfrog The poll results change drastically when you associate the issues with the Democrats. For instance, most voters love the Affordable Care Act, but about half want to repeal “Obamacare”, aka the Affordable Care Act. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 5:09 | comment | added | Barmar | @eyeballfrog True, polls usually ask about each thing individually. So there's likely to be a different majority in favor of each one, rather than an overwhelming mandate for the entire Democratic platform. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 2:04 | comment | added | eyeballfrog | "polls have shown that a majority of Americans favor their policies" Individually perhaps. Their policies become much less popular as a package deal. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 15:06 | comment | added | Barmar | @Kyralessa Indeed, there's lots of nuance. But the Republican agenda is to completely overturn Roe, not make minor tweaks that would be more consistent with those details. In any case, this is just one example of how the GOP agenda is out of step with the public concensus. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 8:55 | comment | added | Kyralessa | Nope, I take it back. Looking at the actual poll, it appears that only 18% think abortion should be available at any time during pregnancy for any reason. All the rest wish to restrict it; 47% would restrict it to just the "hard cases" (rape/incest/life of the mother). "75% wish to keep abortion legal" doesn't tell the story well. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 8:42 | comment | added | Kyralessa | "A total of 77% say the Supreme Court should uphold Roe, but within that there's a lot of nuance — 26% say they would like to see it remain in place, but with more restrictions added; 21% want to see Roe expanded to establish the right to abortion under any circumstance; 16% want to keep it the way it is; and 14% want to see some of the restrictions allowed under Roe reduced. Just 13% overall say it should be overturned." So actually only 51% think the current abortion restrictions are either appropriate or too restrictive. (What's with the missing 10%? Did 10% of people have no opinion?) | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 5:08 | comment | added | Barmar | @Kyralessa Added some links | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 5:06 | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2020 at 4:29 | comment | added | Barmar | @Kyralessa I thought that was common knowledge, but if I get time I'll find some citations. | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 4:18 | comment | added | Kyralessa | I'm more concerned about the hand-wavy "polls have shown...". | |
| Oct 22, 2020 at 2:41 | vote | accept | Kirill Yunussov | ||
| Oct 21, 2020 at 18:48 | comment | added | Barmar | Since the GOP strategy is to reduce voting, it seems obvious that they wouldn't be behind campaigns to increase voting, so it must be Democrats. | |
| Oct 21, 2020 at 18:46 | comment | added | Barmar | @Kyralessa The question I link to in the last paragraph has cites. The rest of the paragraph is mainly my intuition based on information like that. | |
| Oct 21, 2020 at 17:56 | comment | added | Kyralessa | Wow, could this answer ever use some sources cited on a lot of its ending paragraph statements. | |
| Oct 20, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | bendl | Even putting aside polling, which has always been a bit iffy, even just the results of the last 20 years of voting show the democratic lean- the last two Republican Presidents lost the popular vote, and only scraped by with very close electoral college victories. | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 15:53 | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2020 at 15:06 | history | edited | divibisan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2020 at 15:03 | history | answered | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |