Poll: Voters in Trump states want Democrats to keep him in check
By David Weigel January 4 at 6:00 AM
A poll of voters in red or purple states, conducted for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, has found a sizable majority willing to back Democrats if they oppose President-elect Donald Trump.
The poll, which surveyed 1,206 voters in 14 states — all with Senate races next year — found 49 percent approving of Trump's conduct as president-elect. That's higher than the number in national polls, which have included samples from bluer states. Depending on how the question was asked, anywhere from 56 percent to 61 percent of voters said that the Democratic senator up for reelection in 2018 should act as a “check and balance” on the incoming president. (The number was lower if voters were asked specifically if the senator should “block” Trump.)
“Even in states that Trump won handily, Democrats are in a good position,” said Neera Tanden, CAP's president. “Eight years ago, if you asked this question, people were much more inclined to say that everyone should get along. Here, you've got people who voted for Trump but want Democrats to block or oppose his agenda. That seems to be a new thing for American politics.”
Trump's persistent unpopularity, even in some blue states that he narrowly flipped last November, has perplexed progressives who did not expect to lose the election. CAP's poll found voters in just four states that had voted for Clinton — Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey and Virginia — and weighted them with voters in states as red as North Dakota and West Virginia. Across the map, Trump enjoyed a narrow 45 percent-to-43 percent favorable rating; Democratic senators had a 47 percent-to-28 percent average rating. By 44 percent to 24 percent, more of the voters considered themselves conservative as considered themselves liberal.
Yet when quizzed, with language (via pollster Geoff Garin) that couched liberal ideas fairly positively, voters rejected most of the GOP Congress's stated priorities. There was marginal opposition to Congress's undoing environmental regulations but sky-high opposition to health-care cuts. Asked whether they would “replace Medicare with private insurance for seniors that costs two thousand dollars more per year on average,” 77 percent said no. Asked whether they would “cut funding for Medicaid, which states use to provide health coverage for low-income individuals and for nursing home care for seniors and the disabled,” 72 percent said no.
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If they wanted a "check" on Trump, they should've given Democrats some actual, you know, POWER, to do something. The Democrats' only source of "power" is the filibuster in the Senate, which has been (or will likely be) weakened by Republicans. I really don't think that most voters know what they want or what they are doing when they go to (or are answering) polls......
