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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Sat Jun 8, 2019, 09:15 PM Jun 2019

Public support for liberal policymaking at 60-year high, survey says

Americans' support for liberal policymaking has reached a 60-year high, according to a new survey.

Vox reported that public support for more regulation, higher taxes and more social services reached the highest level on record in the latest edition of Policy Mood, an aggregate overview of American opinion based on a range of polls on a variety of issues.

According to Vox, the finding was first reported by James Stimson, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina who has published numerous books on public opinion research.

“The annual estimate for 2018 is the most liberal ever recorded in the 68 year history of Mood,” he wrote. “Just slightly higher than the previous high point of 1961.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/447599-public-support-for-liberal-policymaking-at-60-year-high

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Public support for liberal policymaking at 60-year high, survey says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 OP
And the US corporate media insists that the US is a center right country. guillaumeb Jun 2019 #1
We ARE a left of center country GWC58 Jun 2019 #2
The center is Liberal. SkatmanRoth Jun 2019 #3
See then why Are thev pugs controlling the Senate and state governments. We Demsrule86 Jun 2019 #4
Not all of the states have Senatoral elections every two years Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 #5

SkatmanRoth

(843 posts)
3. The center is Liberal.
Sun Jun 9, 2019, 05:33 AM
Jun 2019

Being a Liberal is normal for the United States. Being a right winger is outside the norm and they should be treated as the minority that they are.

Demsrule86

(68,555 posts)
4. See then why Are thev pugs controlling the Senate and state governments. We
Sun Jun 9, 2019, 07:12 AM
Jun 2019

Lost three senators in 18 ...moderates replaced with hard right people. This is wishful thinking. It is a center left country.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
5. Not all of the states have Senatoral elections every two years
Sun Jun 9, 2019, 02:37 PM
Jun 2019

Because of the way six year terms are staggered I believe a third of them don't.

The way it worked out in 2018 is more red states did.

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