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59% of people support Medicare for All and 75% a public option. When phrased as "Medicare-for-some," support among GOP voters is 64%. It’s a corporate-controll
by knuththetruth 8y ago
59% of people support Medicare for All and 75% a public option. When phrased as "Medicare-for-some," support among GOP voters is 64%.
It’s a corporate-controlled media narrative that these things are unpopular.
http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-medicare-for-all-public-option-bernie-sanders-plan-support-2018-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-medicare-for-all-public-...
- supertrope 8y agoBe careful interpreting polls. Question wording bias is very powerful. If you ask them whether they’d be willing to pay higher taxes for Medicare for all, it’d much less popular. Just like how a huge majority support renewable energy in surveys, but the same overwhelming majority refuses to pay even 5% more for electricity.
- knuththetruth 8y agoWhich only shows that opinion on these issues is malleable and not ideologically-fixed, as many would like to portray them. Understanding your constituency and being successfully persuasive is a fundamental part of any politics.