Polls suggest the U.S. mainstream rejects the Republicans' latest anti-vaccine moves

[LetMyPeopleVote]

There’s fresh evidence that parents from all political backgrounds overwhelmingly support school vaccination requirements.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/polls-suggest-us-mainstream-rejects-republicans-latest-anti-vaccine-mo-rcna229344

Given all of this, it might be tempting to think the GOP’s anti-vaccine wing is responding to shifts in public attitudes, but the data suggests otherwise. The Washington Post reported:

It remains to be seen whether other red states will follow the lead of Florida, which is widely considered an outlier on public health issues. Parents of all political backgrounds overwhelmingly support school vaccination requirements, according to a Washington Post-KFF poll conducted in July and August.

The Post’s report noted that in Florida in particular, 82% of parents said public schools should require vaccines for measles and polio, which was nearly identical to the national results.

What’s more, this isn’t the only relevant data. NBC News reported that congressional Republicans were reminded this week that even a majority of Donald Trump’s own voters support vaccines. From the report:

NBC News obtained a copy of a memo, dated Aug. 26, summarizing the poll results. It was conducted by veteran Republican pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Bob Ward and concluded ‘that there is broad unity across party lines supporting vaccines such as measles (MMR), shingles, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (TDAP), and Hepatitis B.’

The morning after his embarrassing display on Capitol Hill, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published an online item in which the conspiratorial opponent of vaccines claimed, “[T]he country is waking up and we are winning.”

[Johonny]

1. The easy solution is to stop voting GOP

But so many would rather die first.

[Midnight Writer]

2. The "US Mainstream" is no longer in power.

I don't think Trump and his armies of darkness give a tinker's turd what the public thinks.

I don't think they plan on having any more fair elections.

There are a just few dozen people financing and directing this destruction of our Constitutional Rights.

Their opinions are the only ones that count to this Administration.

[NCDem47]

3. Spot on.

Trump’s in and the powers that be want it to remain it that way. There’s NO governing with regard to what the public thinks. And polls?!? Ha! Just noise and illusion.