Do Voters Reward Good Policy?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : This is, at least to my mind, a tremendous idea.
56% : She's a political scientist soon to join the faculty at UC Berkeley and has published a paper at the American Political Science Review called, "Do Government Benefits Affect Officeholders' Electoral Fortunes?"
56% : Rendleman: Exactly.Demsas:
55% : Like, you hear about public policy from your neighbor or from the news or something like that, and you get 10 percent of the story, and you're just going to take that 10 percent and go with it.
54% : I mean, I know you mentioned that, like, this is probably too small of a benefit to change the amount of leisure time you have in the way that Social Security did.
53% : And is your idea that you think the EITC is just like a better-designed program than Medicaid, or how does your finding kind of interact with Michener's?
48% : You could also imagine that the EITC is covarying with a bunch of other welfare policies or anti-poverty policies.
43% : It could be for a whole host of different things, like, Taxes are complicated.
43% : So I think that's a story that's often told for Social Security: Older folks that are impoverished -- they get this potentially transformative amount of money.
32% : But when election season came around, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien gave a prime-time address at the RNC praising Donald Trump and J. D. Vance, infuriating White House aides who told The Washington Post that it was a "betrayal of the administration's support" for union workers.
12% : I mean, I think another clear example of this is when Donald Trump was signing the stimulus checks, and people were just like, Oh, it's awful.
8% : "But this line of thinking has come under much scrutiny following Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump.

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