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by mrtesthah
145 days ago
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Universal health care wasn't as popular back then as it is now, so that's to be expected: https://news.gallup.com/poll/4708/healthcare-system.aspx This isn't about who wins campaigns -- this is about who influences the issues they campaign on. Since the Citizens United decision politicians have had to switch to the Super PAC model to be competitive, which gives drastically more power to dark money donors. And unsurprisingly, as cited in that study, the influence of average citizens on politics has been completely surpassed by businesses and economic elites: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... |
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Doesn't matter anyway because the poll doesn't mean shit. Most people are idiots and will answer the poll completely differently if you actually give them a realistic question like "would you accept a major tax increase to get universal healthcare?"