Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumNEW POLL: Nearly half of Americans think Democrats have moved too far to the left
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The survey from Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that 47 percent of registered voters polled said the Democratic Party has moved too far left;" however, most of those voters identified as Republicans.
The poll found that 79 percent of Republicans surveyed said the Democrats had moved too far left, but only 17 percent of Democrats agreed. Just under half, or 48 percent, of independents said the party has drifted too far left.
There was also a gap by gender, with 57 percent of male respondents saying the party was too far to the left and only 37 percent of women saying the same. Similarly, the view was split by race, with 53 percent of white voters polled agreeing, 33 percent of Hispanic voters and just 17 percent of black voter
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Wheres that poll?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pintobean
(18,101 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DownriverDem
(6,226 posts)We are a Center/Left country. Too many folks don't get that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)When youre in a car and the madman at the wheel has yanked it hard right, about to send you off a cliff, turning the wheel back to the middle will not suffice.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)it says everything needed
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)According to their poll, only 58% of Democrats think the GOP has gone too far to the right.
Which tells me their poll is codswallop.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Tarheel_Dem
(31,220 posts)Either the poll is credible or it's not. We can't cherry pick the parts we like, and dismiss the ones we don't.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)By contrast, 37 percent of respondents said the Republican Party had moved too far right. The poll found just 12 percent of Republicans agreed with the statement, but 58 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of independents agreed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
List left
(595 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Groundhawg
(539 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Another way to put it:
We haven't moved far enough back to sanity, balance, compassion and TRADITIONAL new deal progressive tax rates and well-funded schools.
The terms "left" and "right" are flim flam terms that have almost no meaning.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 26, 2019, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212622807However, Bill Maher made some good points last night about how we Dems are sabotaging our chances. He and Chris Como agree that we will lose, according to the polls, if our candidate is identified as a *"Socialist."*
Sigh.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mopinko
(69,981 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)doesn't mean it will go away.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
paleotn
(17,870 posts)These people aren't voting for Dems of any stripe, since they think we're all raving commies. So what's the point?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Most people who feel that way are white male republicans. Only 17% of Democrats agree. Sounds like Bernie and Elizabeth are on to something.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The center is where it's AT!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)...47% of Republicans share that sentiment, along with 17% of Democrats. Sounds like you fit in more with the Republicans on this one.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
melman
(7,681 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Response to HerbChestnut (Reply #8)
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HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)....(if those numbers are accurate)
That's going on quite a long limb, claiming that a member of Democratic Underground fits in with republicans. I believe you owe her an apology.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,905 posts)That's not a long climb. That's correct interpretation of the data in the OP.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Turin_C3PO
(13,893 posts)Its mostly Republicans who feel that way.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)A funny thing I realized recently is that republicans have only won the popular vote for president once since 1988. Which I think reflects that all policy that brought this country further right (along with the center) influenced by republican presidents was at odds with the will of the voters.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)By definition, the center is always in the center. If it was 'too far to the right" then it wouldn't be in the center.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
All I'm saying is you're actually wrong. If everything moves to the right that would include the center.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)If not by current policy trends?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I've been as clear and honest and straightforward as I can be... and all I get are insults in return.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Here. Especially since the spectrum can be so starkly different depending on region, like how the center in europe is far to the left than here. Largely based on current policy trends in the region.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Sorry for the misunderstanding.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,101 posts)so by definition, the center of that landscape is indeed more to the right than the objective left.
Just comparing them to the left in the US is misleading. Nixon was a more leftist president than any other in my lifetime.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Celerity
(43,056 posts)moved to the right.
Moderate and centre left Dems would be considered mildly centre RW in many European countries, and centrists and especially Blue Dog and Problem Solver Democratic members would be considered regular RW to even the farthest right on the 'regular' RW parties.
The political prism in the US is so distorted vis-a-vis most of the rest of the advanced Western world. My Euro/UK politics are much to the left of my American politics, simply because of the impossibly of getting an actual left, social democratic (NOT democratic socialist, which doesn't exist for ANY federally elected politician, Bernie is 100% falsely mis-labelling there) agenda passed here under the current RW-gerrymandered, voter suppressed and overall propagandised system.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)At least you didn't call me a Republican.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,056 posts)Why would I call anyone (other than a troll) a Republican?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,056 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,056 posts)The AVERAGE US Rethug would be considered a completely wild-eyed ultra radical RWer in much of Europe (and elsewhere), and the MAGAT types, say the farthest RW third of the party, would be,(say here in Sweden), charged with hets mot folkgrupp ie. verbal hate crimes against people and booted out of the Riksdag (our parliament). The same for many other counties. Fox News was on here a long time ago, and was eventually banned for hate speech.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... and people ridicule me for that too.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,056 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
rampartc
(5,382 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)...with the Direction of the Democratic Party.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
rampartc
(5,382 posts)without thinking that it is moving "too far left?"
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Doesn't make for as good a headline though
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,423 posts)51% said it's moved too far one way or the other. Another 7% were DK/NA.
42% said it hasn't moved too far.
Question #24 in the survey:
24. Would you say that the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, too far to the right, or would you say the Democratic Party hasn't moved too far in either direction?
Too far left 47%
Too far right 4
Not too far 42
DK/NA 7
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
KPN
(15,634 posts)If anything, weve moved way too far to the right.
Scare tactics going on here.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
griffi94
(3,733 posts)Having the opposition disagree with you is good.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ritapria
(1,812 posts)We don't need 2 Republican Partys . One is more than enough
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,543 posts)We are nowhere near as far left as we ought to be!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Magoo48
(4,697 posts)What we have now is center left, center, and center right +. There is no true left in the party to speak of, and were much the worse off for it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
melman
(7,681 posts)That means most don't think that.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)Who says?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
griffi94
(3,733 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)We just need to keep on, keepin' on and do what Democrats do best.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
griffi94
(3,733 posts)Remember in 2018 how the mid-terms were going to be a red wave because the Democrats had
gone too far left? That stupid Justwalkaway meme. Now we're being threatened with civil war if the rule
of law is applied to Trump. This is more BS for the RW echo chamber.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)Every time a Republican blusters about his superior firepower (and it's almost always a man), I tell him it means nothing if we now know who exactly to shoot when they get their precious civil war. Gun-owning Democrats tend to keep quiet about their arsenals, and I like to keep Republicans guessing about who else is armed. It's food for thought for them, you know? Kind of like a 3000-calorie hamberder for their Trump-wired brains.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
They are the ones talking about 2nd Ammendment remedies and threatening Civil war, and they are accusing Democrats of being too extreme?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,121 posts)Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Healthcare will continue to be a big, big issue.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I'm familiar with what those terms mean.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)This is from a non-partisan think group that is well respected http://www.crfb.org/papers/choices-financing-medicare-all-preliminary-analysis
In the coming months, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget will publish a detailed analysis describing numerous ways to finance Medicare for All and the consequences and trade-offs associated with each choice. This paper provides our preliminary estimates of the magnitude of each potential change and a brief discussion of the types of trade-offs policymakers will need to consider.
We find that Medicare for All could be financed with:
A 32 percent payroll tax
A 25 percent income surtax
A 42 percent value-added tax (VAT)
A mandatory public premium averaging $7,500 per capita the equivalent of $12,000 per individual not otherwise on public insurance
More than doubling all individual and corporate income tax rates
An 80 percent reduction in non-health federal spending
A 108 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increase in the national debt
Impossibly high taxes on high earners, corporations, and the financial sector
A combination of approaches
Each of these choices would have consequences for the distribution of income, growth in the economy, and ability to raise new revenue. Some of these consequences could be balanced against each other by adopting a combination approach that includes smaller versions of several of the options as well as additional policies.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Vast majority of Democrats and majority of independents think the party hasn't.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
redqueen
(115,101 posts)if it wasn't all about clicks and manipulation.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bluewater
(5,376 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,101 posts)No surprises at all in this NEW POLL
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,423 posts)47% can be reasonably considered "nearly half".
Question #24 in the survey:
24. Would you say that the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, too far to the right, or would you say the Democratic Party hasn't moved too far in either direction?
Too far left 47%
Too far right 4
Not too far 42
DK/NA 7
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,101 posts)However, if you break that down into something that's actually meaningful, it becomes clear what a silly waste of time the piece is.
After all, why should we care if republicans think the Dem party has moved too far left. Are we expecting them to vote for our candidates en masse? Hardly.
Take out that segment and you have data thars actually useful. Not so likely to get clicks, though.
This is the kind of nonsense that is responsible for pushing this country so far right.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Peacetrain
(22,871 posts)nothing gets done that way
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)All are Democrats, many long time democrats. I hope the far left of the party doesn't totally take over before 2020 or we are going to lose and there will be 4 more years of the orange wonder.
I am not saying i don't agree with them, but now is not the time.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
tenderfoot
(8,425 posts)Any push back to the past forty years of trickle-down is just too far to the left.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,101 posts)Funny how that works.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Jspur
(578 posts)angry. I'm considered a radical communist leftist simply because I want to increase taxation on the rich and corporations. That's how low my demands and expectations of the democratic party have become. But that's considered too extreme by these right wing clowns and independents. I have to say fuck them. America used to have the tax system I wanted from 1940-1980 and nobody back then besides the rich considered it extreme.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Thekaspervote
(32,688 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)will accuse even reforms and advances by Biden, Klobuchar or? , which large bipartisan majorities of Americans want, of being extremist/socialist, but only those who want to believe lies like that will.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
thewhollytoast
(318 posts)Anyone that even thinks that things should be better is now portrayed as one of those filthy leftists. Center = Mediocre no path forward-stuck in the mud. "Can't I have my SUV and eat it too?" Nearly half of American's can shove their notions up their ass.
The oceans are rising people - get with the fucking program. Idiots!
fuck, just fuck,
Toast
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Autumn
(44,962 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BeyondGeography
(39,339 posts)I want to know whats the pain threshold for the 21 percent of Republicans who think we havent moved too far to the left. Sounds like we still have some wiggle room.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
paleotn
(17,870 posts)The bulk of those Republicans still think Hillary Clinton personally murdered Vince Foster. We can't reach those people. We can't. They'll never, ever vote for a Dem. What we can do is capture that 53%.....the majority, by the way...and expand that by registering more voters, particularly young voters and people of color. The 47% we can't reach, thankfully, are dying off a few more every single day.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(44,962 posts)Fuck Republicana and fuck their silly bullshit that the Democratic party has moved too far to the left. They whine because their party is insane and there's no coming back from that. They want us to move to where they were so they feel better.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Maven
(10,533 posts)from a right-leaning political tabloid.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dchill
(38,429 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
kurtcagle
(1,601 posts)I find it intriguing how the message is framed. There is no mention about what percentage feel the country has moved too far to the right. Moreover, if reframed, it says that 21 percent of Republicans believe that the country has not moved too far to the left, that the overwhelming majority (83%) of Democrats believe that it has moved too far to the right, and that 52% of all independents do not believe that it has gone too far to the left.
Link to the latest poll
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3645
Think I find interesting is that 43% of the population believes we've moved too far to the right, only marginally less than the 47% who feel it's gone too far to the left. This isn't that surprising - the Democratic party overall is still fairly pluralistic.
Looking at the overall poll though, you can tell that the Hill definitely cherry picked its statistics - dig into the details and it looks pretty bad for the Republicans at this stage all across the board.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
doc03
(35,292 posts)for me but all of them are better than Trump.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I think we do hurt the party if we move so far left that we lose the middle of the country. You can't win with just both coasts.
Any true Democrat would be better than the orange wonder.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
doc03
(35,292 posts)vote, that does't mean squat. We could win 100% of the vote on the coasts but we have to carry the more conservative states in the flyover country to elect a president. I can see Biden winning maybe but I wish we had more centrist choices.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Maven
(10,533 posts)In other words, this is a non-story from a right-wing rag (The Hill).
Thread over.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)In fact I think Americans are split and the same factions are holding tight to their own beliefs.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)A lot of the perception is also just that, perception. We are at a time when groups are being defined by the most aggressive Twitter users among them.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fiendish Thingy
(15,544 posts)Democrats don't think their party is too far Left, and that's all that matters.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Firestorm49
(4,028 posts)Get us to move more to the right. If we move to the left, our side doesnt understand?
Were still mis-understanding what were up against.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Link to tweet
Its an approach that, at first, seems at odds with where the party is going. Weve noted previously that Democrats are increasingly likely to identify themselves as liberals, a trend that probably helps explain why so many of the 2020 candidates have embraced progressive positions and why more progressive candidates have entered the race.
Polling, though, suggests that this may not be a foolproof strategy. For one thing, a crowd of more progressive candidates (an admittedly nebulous designation) will compete for the same voters, freeing Biden to vacuum up support from moderates. But polling also shows that Democrats overall arent necessarily prioritizing a candidate who espouses progressive policies. The data below are from a recent CNN-SSRS poll: More Democrats think its important for a nominee to work with Republicans than to support liberal policies.
.....
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
myohmy2
(3,137 posts)...to be ignored...
...cooked polls mean nothing to me...
...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Doodley
(9,033 posts)on the right by British standards and the Republican Party is so far right that it would be considered a far-right white nationalist party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,056 posts)for many other nations here in the EU. I am in Sweden for post grad uni and so many US Democratic 'centrists' would be on the farthest right of the mainstream centre right party, Nya Moderaterna (New Moderates, what use to be called the Conservatives.) The vast majority of Rethugs would be off the charts rightwing. Hell, even SD (Sverigedemokraterna, aka the Sweden Democrats, the far right nationalist party) might not take some as even they are still mostly for a fairly expansive welfare state.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
kcr
(15,313 posts)This isn't news.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)More than half of Americans don't think the Democrats have moved too far left.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)not by all who would benefitat time when basics are threatened and underfunded.
We are told the plan is to Tax the rich and stop wars. Get it from the defense budget. Crap. That talk is for 60s college hippies. The reality is higher taxes for reinventing the wheel, giving to the rich along with working class, and bad prioritizing. I mean student debt comes before helping folks save their homes from foreclosure? Before childrens lunch programs? Low income family needs?
200 billion for the opioid crisis is a crisis de jour plan that sounds good, but half that amount is probably more than what is needed when rehabs are often not the answer and many states already fund Suboxone treatment and therapy. Mandate that they all do. Alcohol is still Americas number one drug problem.
How bout sensible plans and doable, whatever ideology candidates want to call it. But again, ideology is all the rage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Quality polling there, Quinnipiac.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)time- Get the monster out and win!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TheFarseer
(9,317 posts)Do the Yankees let the Red Sox advise them on who their starting pitcher should be?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
RandiFan1290
(6,221 posts)Garbage 'poll'
Nice try
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mosby
(16,251 posts)They should be ignored.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Quixote1818
(28,918 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
gulliver
(13,168 posts)It's the ultimate identity politics, a simplistic categorization scheme that supposedly lets people place themselves on some kind of political number line. It's completely nuts.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mosby
(16,251 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
iwannaknow
(210 posts)Depends on how you look at it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)In this case it sounds like 83% of black voters disagree with the OP headline. Maybe that sentiment should be elevated too?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)"There was also a gap by gender, with 57 percent of male respondents saying the party was too far to the left and only 37 percent of women saying the same. Similarly, the view was split by race, with 53 percent of white voters polled agreeing, 33 percent of Hispanic voters and just 17 percent of black voter..."
I'll modify my assertion to say that 17% of black voters agreed that the party was too far to the left. But it certainly sounds like several groups of voters who are marginalized by systemic discrimination (women, black and Latinx voters) are not in agreement with the proposition that Democrats are now too far left. Voters who are white and male are significantly more likely to find disfavor from the party's embrace of "left" policies.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Biden is doing great with African American voters in the real world
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)Only 17% of black voters agreed that the Democratic party is too far left.
You can argue with the methodology of the survey, but you can't argue with the assertion that is a restatement of the survey results. Why be daft?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Your numbers make no sense. I read the article and it does not support your claims
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)Neither are content free assertions with no references to the data in your own OP.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Link to tweet
Their second choice in a straw vote is Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
They definitely dont want either U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts or U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive candidates who are performing near the top of public opinion polls, along with Biden.....
But they believe the Democratic Partys overriding goal of defeating President Donald Trump can be best achieved by nominating a candidate like Biden or maybe Buttigieg who they believe can better to appeal to swing voters in a handful of states that will decide the election.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
book_worm
(15,951 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Bartollo
(9 posts)from the purveyors of business as usual.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Link to tweet
At least thats the historic argument for why a moderate Democrat could have the advantage in swing states, said Matt Grossman, director of Michigan State Universitys Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. While Democrats consider which of their candidates is best positioned to beat Trump, recent polling suggests Democrats in Michigan and other general election battlegrounds are motivated to vote but less enthusiastic about progressive policy ideas.,,,,
A majority of Democratic voters in Michigan put Medicare for All at the bottom of their health care priorities, the KFF survey found. Union members have also expressed issues with losing health benefits they fought for over decades of negotiations with employers.
Candidates in the moderate lane like Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg favor expanding coverage under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Biden and Buttigieg support giving people the option of buying-in to Medicare but dont want to expand it to everyone.
Bidens campaign has come out swinging against Warrens Medicare for All plan, saying its too costly and would hike taxes on the middle-class.
Trump and other Republicans call Medicare for All a socialist" policy, portraying the plan as reckless and expensive. The danger of socialism is poised to get a lot of mileage in Republican campaign messaging during the next year, Grossman said.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
andym
(5,442 posts)For example, how many Americans in this poll think that Democrats are too far left socially with regard to gay and transgender rights? Do we really want to follow such Americans or lead them to a better understanding of what equality means. How many of those polled who said that Democrats had moved too far left are Repubicans?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden