Survey: Focusing on corruption could be a powerful element for a Democratic victory in November
Survey: Focusing on corruption could be a powerful element for a Democratic victory in November
Meteor Blades at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/19/1781941/-Survey-Focusing-on-corruption-could-be-a-powerful-element-for-a-Democratic-victory-in-November
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Undertaken by GBA Associates, the July 2-5 survey polled 1,200 registered voters in 48 Republican-held districts nationwide. On the generic congressional ballot, Democrats lead Republicans by 4 points, 46–42 percent. That is a big shift compared with the past two election cycles when Republican candidates in those 48 districts averaged 14 points over their Democratic opponents. Among survey respondents, Democrats and Republicans are about equal in their support for their parties’ candidates, but Democrats lead with Independent voters by 11 points.
Another key finding: By an overall margin of 54-46 percent, these voters see the GOP as the party of corruption and view it as more corrupt than Democrats. One reason for that wider gap than found in the generic ballot? Sixty percent of independents say Republicans are more corrupt, and even 27 percent of Republican voters agree.
As has become apparent even to a few of the previously blinkered backers of Trump, corruption is not just accepted by the regime, not just actively encouraged, but also modeled. Trump and his family show imitators how it’s done.
A related item in the survey is the attitude of most voters about the Republican-passed tax cuts. By a margin of 55–45 percent, voters say it upsets them more when politicians “spend taxpayer money on perks for themselves” than when they “make policies that help their big campaign donors.” This, as GBA Associates point out, “highlights how examples of self-dealing and wasteful spending of the sort that Scott Pruitt stands accused of can generate more visceral reactions among voters, particularly among white non-college voters (59–41 percent) and undecided Congressional voters (63–37).”
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