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Quote:The Democratic economic agenda is broadly popular with the public. More people prefer the party’s views to those of Republicans on taxes, poverty reduction, health care, government benefits, and even climate change and energy policy. In one recent poll, 3 in 4 supported raising the minimum wage to $9. Seventy-two percent wanted to provide pre-K to all 4-year-olds in poor families. Eight in 10 favored expanding food stamps. It is noteworthy that each of these proposals found support from a majority of Republicans.
The Democrats’ problem is not the economy, stupid - The Washington Post
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Quote:Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America's highest tax rate "radical" but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea. In the latest The Hill-HarrisX survey — conducted Jan. 12 and 13 after the newly elected congresswoman called for the U.S. to raise its highest tax rate to 70 percent — a sizable majority of registered voters, 59 percent, supports the concept. Ocasio-Cortez has not introduced any legislation to enact the concept but the survey shows a broad cross-section of Americans supports it, at least presently. Women support the idea by a 62-38 percent margin. A majority of men back it as well, 55 percent to 45 percent. The proposal is popular in all regions of the country with a majority of Southerners backing it by a 57 to 43 percent margin. Rural voters back it as well, 56 percent to 44 percent.
Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent | TheHill
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Quote:A significant minority of Republican voters favors “progressive” economic policies typically associated with Democrats, according to new polling done by the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group. Many of these Republicans voted for President Trump in 2016, but they’re less inclined than traditional Republicans to support Trump in 2020. Researchers asked nearly 7,000 voters their views on a variety of economic issues, such as raising the minimum wage, hiking taxes on the wealthy, cutting regulations and breaking up big banks. Democrats are largely united in support of policies that would exert more government influence over the economy and redistribute wealth. Republicans are more split. Higher-income Republicans generally favor less government and lower taxation. But lower-income Republicans are closer to Democratic positions on some key issues. Forty-five percent of Republicans earning $40,000 or less support raising taxes on people with incomes above $200,000, for instance. Just 23% of Republicans earning more than $80,000 support that. Forty-one percent of lower-income Republicans want to raise the minimum wage, compared with just 20% of higher-income Republicans.
Trump could lose these “progressive” Republican voters
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Quote:In a shock opener to his Wednesday-night show, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson took time out from attacking liberals to offer uncharacteristic praise for one of the leading Democratic contenders for the presidency in 2020: Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. “Yesterday, Warren released what she called her ‘Plan for Economic Patriotism,'” Carlson said in the opening monologue to his show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “Amazingly, that’s pretty much what it is: economic patriotism,” Carlson said, adding that her policies made “obvious sense.” “She says the US government should buy American products when it can. And of course it should,” Carlson said. “She says we need more workplace apprenticeship programs because four-year-college degrees aren’t right for everyone. Well, that’s true. She says that taxpayers ought to benefit from the research and development that they pay for.”
Tucker Carlson praised Elizabeth Warren's economic plan and said many of her ideas 'make obvious sense'
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Quote:Public support for big government — more regulation, higher taxes, and more social services — has reached the highest level on record in one of the most prominent aggregate surveys of American public opinion. James Stimson, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina who’s one of the giants of American public opinion research, broke the news in a modest missive to a political science email listserv on June 6. He was sharing the news that the latest edition of Policy Mood, a composite look at American opinion across a range of polls on a range of issues, was available for public release. “The annual estimate for 2018 is the most liberal ever recorded in the 68 year history of Mood,” he wrote. “Just slightly higher than the previous high point of 1961.”
Public opinion is getting more liberal: Policy Mood at record left - Vox
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