POLL finds 80% of Republicans AGREE with BERNIE SANDERS on campaign financing

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/03/1390254/-POLL-finds-80-of-Republicans-AGREE-with-BERNIE-SANDERS

Sen. Bernie Sanders is often characterized by the media as an out of the mainstream presidential candidate, but a new CBS/New York Times poll revealed that 80% of Republicans agree with Sanders on the issue of getting money out of politics.

The CBS/NYT poll found that:

– 80% of Republicans believe that money has too much influence in our politics.

– 54% believed that most of the time candidates directly help those who gave money to them.

– 81% of Republicans felt that the campaign finance system needed fundamental changes (45%) or a complete rebuild (36%).

– 64% are pessimistic that changes will be made to reform the campaign finance system.

– 71% want to limit the amount that individuals can give to campaigns.

– 73% felt that super PAC spending should be limited by law.

– 76% thought that superPACs should be required to disclose their donors.

[delrem]

1. So Bernie can cut votes out of the Republican base.

Astonishing.

But we just saw it up here in Alberta, the Texas of Canada, which went NDP in the recent election, and "NDP" can be read as being similar to "Democratic Socialist". It was Canada's NDP which *defined* Canada's universal health care system, which even the most toxic conservatives don't dare openly touch. That gives Canada's NDP a certain cachet.

[Wilms]

2. ^