Matt Robison

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Ditto for questions like, "Do you favor or oppose providing a way for undocumented immigrants already in the United States to become citizens?"
57% : Support for the Green New Deal similarly wobbled if brushed with a light feather of context.
54% : Two years ago, progressives cited support for the Green New Deal at 80 percent, Medicare for All at 70 percent (including 52 percent of Republicans), and Free College for All at 60 percent.
53% : After all, do most people outside elite political circles really spend their time thinking about health policy, let alone sub-issues like universal coverage, choice of doctors, or prescription drug price negotiations?
51% :Consider that first question on marijuana.
47% : No (one-third of Americans don't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing).
45% : Do I not care much about this particular question, but still use a candidate's views on marijuana as a signifier of their ideology, which is something that I do care about?
45% : Question 16: "Should the government raise taxes on incomes above $200,000."
45% : Moderate Democrats responded that support for Medicare for All dropped to 48 percent when voters were informed that it is the same as single-payer coverage, and 34 percent when told that it might raise taxes.
43% : But I don't think marijuana should be exactly "legal" either, given our limited understanding of the drug.
42% : To help us understand, he offers a 20-question survey of major policy issues (Question 1: "Marijuana should be legal," offering five response options ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree").
39% : Probing for views on health care policy or taxes may not introduce the same set of biases in respondents.
36% : I think we shouldn't send people to overcrowded prisons and ruin their lives for possessing marijuana, especially given the stark racial disparities in arrests.

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