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New Poll Busts the Conventional Wisdom
April 21, 2024 at 2:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/21/new-poll-busts-the-conventional-wisdom/
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Playbook has two takeaways from todays NBC News poll:
1. RFK Jr.s support draws more from Trump than Biden. Though the CW is that Kennedy is a bigger threat to Biden than to Trump, the numbers here tell a different story: 15% of Trump supporters and 7% of Biden supporters in the head-to-head matchup break for RFK Jr. when the field expands to include third-party candidates.
2. Protecting democracy is a salient issue for voters. Theres a difference between what voters identify as the most important issue facing the country (on that, inflation and the cost of living registers 23%, followed by immigration/the border, at 22%) and what they identify as the issue most important in determining their own vote (on that, protecting democracy or constitutional rights was on top with 28%, followed by immigration/the border at 20% and abortion at 19%).
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RandomNumbers
(17,608 posts)If Jr. tilts any swing states to Trump, it won't matter what the national effect was. And I don't think a national poll can be taken as representative of each specific state.
brooklynite
(94,852 posts)RandomNumbers
(17,608 posts)what a total loony-tune nut job Jr. is.
(I don't like to use his father's initials. RFK Sr. was by most accounts, a sane and decent human being. I am sorry for Jr.'s trauma, but the result is what it is.)