Issue polls I would like to see
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Anonymous
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It is completely understandable that people disapprove of Biden, but it blows my mind that so many people would prefer Trump when a lot of the issues where Biden is bad, Trump is far worse.
But perhaps I’m just flat out wrong and in the minority, and America is truly a right-leaning country. For this reason, I’m curious as to how Americans would answer these questions: 1. Do you attribute lingering inflation (high grocery/consumer goods prices) to corporate greed or to government spending? 2. Do you think that people earning $400K or more should be taxed less, or more? 3. Do you think we should be aiding Israel less/applying conditions, or should we keep supporting Israel? 4. Do you support the negotiated Border proposal or do you oppose it? (The thought behind the question is if you disapprove of Biden on the border, would you have agreed to the bipartisan border bill or would you have agreed with Republicans who try to block it) 5. Should the US invest more (this means gov spending) in critical infrastructure and apply more regulations (to prevent things like train derailments) or less? Knowing the answers to these questions would help a lot more than just hearing about blanket disapproval of Biden, e.g “Biden is and on the border” “Biden is bad on inflation” “Biden is bad on Israel/Gaza war” “Biden didn’t care about the East Palestine train derailment” etc. It just seems that so many of the harshest criticisms of Biden are things for which Trump has no solutions or would actively make the problem worse. |
Anonymous
| I agree. But since the polls seem - and the recent special elections bear this out - to oversample Republicans to a crazy degree, it’s not like the pollsters want to or can find it out. They seem uninterested in the motivations. That is, beyond finding out more “and why that’s bad for Democrats.” |
Anonymous
This is a silly leftists push poll. The wealthy already pay way more than everyone else. Way way more. Explain who pays what first and then poll away. More infrastructure, absolutely, but can the union driven bloat on every project as well as the other huge consulting requirements and fees that drive up spending costs. How about instead of the bs border negotiation, a constitutional change on numbers, resources, etc. immigration is that big a deal so it should be elevated and left at that. No more bs on that one. |
Anonymous
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Most people remember they had more money with Trump.
1.record Low interest rates 2.PPP loans, COVID stimulus checks, etc . 3.No inflation at the grocery store Yes the inflation is largely caused by the Trump admins govt spending during COVID but most people don’t know or care about they. What they know is inflation started with Biden |
Anonymous
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These are terrible poll questions.
For example,
This is really two questions. What constitutes "critical infrastructure"? Does that include the military? Roads? Bridges? And how do we pay for that? It's easy to say "yes, we should invest in infrastructure" (whatever that means), but hard to justify, say, cutting funding for schools or law enforcement or whatever to pay for it. As for the second part, is there any evidence that "more regulations" prevent train derailments? Certainly, there are places where regulations do that, and there are other places where they just make life difficult and increase costs for everyone, while providing no benefit. Regulations have a cost, too. Would I pay an extra $.01 on train tickets to measurably reduce derailments? Sure. Would I pay an extra $100 per train ticket to do nothing? No. The question is too vague. An honest response to this question from an intelligent person would be "no opinion" because the question is too broad and too vague for anyone to have a valid opinion on it. |
Anonymous
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That*
That’s what most Americans will remember going to the ballot box. Their money had less purchasing power with Biden, they had to go back to work for less money and pay higher taxes with Biden, borrowing money and credit card debt got more expensive under Biden. These are the facts people will remember |
Anonymous
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You need to factor in the fact that 30% of Americans have less than $100 a savings account. (Jan 2024)
This population is going to be largely driven by inflation concerns. All of the items on your list are irrelevant to their daily existence. |
Anonymous
But a few weeks ago I understood from right wingers that the vote would be decided on immigration. Now that appears to not be the case. For some reason. What’s really going to decide the election is abortion. And Republicans like you don’t see it coming. |
Anonymous
| Where is the abortion question in OP’s list of poll topics? |