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DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:21 AM Dec 2018

Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds.

Planet-saving GOOD NEWS here.... The gist is that we have to forge this Green New Deal into a bipartisan message. Republicans largely like the Green New Deal in principle, but get all crZy partisany if they find out Dems initiated it. (Remember the ACA?)

Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds. At Least, For Now.

Sixty-four percent of Republicans — including 57 percent of conservative Republicans — back the core tenets of the sweeping proposal.

By Alexander C. Kaufman

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c169f2ae4b05d7e5d8332a5

The Green New Deal is the most popular policy hardly anyone has heard of yet.

Eighty-two percent of Americans say they have heard “nothing at all” about the sweeping proposal to generate 100 percent of the nation’s electricity from clean sources within the next 10 years, upgrade the United States’ power grid, invest in energy-efficiency and renewable technology, and provide training for jobs in the new, green economy.

But when asked “how much do you support or oppose” the aforementioned suite of policies, 81 percent of registered voters say they either “somewhat support” or “strongly support” the plan, according to new survey results shared exclusively with HuffPost from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University.

Ninety-two percent of Democrats supported the idea, including 93 percent of liberal Democrats and 90 percent of moderate-to-conservative Democrats. But 64 percent of Republicans ― including 75 percent of moderate-to-liberal Republicans and 57 percent of conservative Republicans ― also backed the policy goals outlined in the Green New Deal. Eighty-eight percent of independents endorsed the policies as well.

“Given that most Americans have strong support for the components and ideas of the Green New Deal, it becomes a communication strategy problem,” Abel Gustafson, a postdoctoral associate at Yale who co-authored a report on the findings, said by phone Sunday. “From here, it’s about how you can pitch it so you can maintain that bipartisan support throughout the rest of the process.”
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Green New Deal Has Overwhelming Bipartisan Support, Poll Finds. (Original Post) DemocracyMouse Dec 2018 OP
I shouldn't be the first to comment, but this article is very significant. DemocracyMouse Dec 2018 #1
Would love to see any Dem Bayard Dec 2018 #2
That is precisely what the article pivots on: we MUST introduce this to Americans, not Trump DemocracyMouse Dec 2018 #3
Hi! All is well. n/t rzemanfl Apr 2019 #4

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
1. I shouldn't be the first to comment, but this article is very significant.
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:30 AM
Dec 2018

Please read. We have a New Deal to launch, and a planet to save.

Bayard

(21,801 posts)
2. Would love to see any Dem
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 01:36 AM
Dec 2018

Debating tRump about this. Climate change? No coal or big oil? He won't be able to stand it.

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