UNC researcher has good news for Democrats
UNC researcher has good news for Democrats
BY NED BARNETT at the News and Observer
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article232317082.html
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Democrats worry that they’ll nominate a presidential candidate who’s too liberal to win a general election, but liberal policies are what the majority of Americans want now.
That’s the intriguing finding of an analysis by UNC professor emeritus James Stimson, a leading figure in American public opinion research. In 1989, Stimson created a statistical interpretation of the nation’s views on such government policies as taxation, government spending and environmental regulation by using data from all available national and academic surveys. The measure, called Public Policy Mood, is updated every two years.
In announcing his most recent analysis, Stimson wrote: “The annual estimate for 2018 is the most liberal ever recorded in the 67-year history of Mood, just slightly higher than the previous high point of 1961.”
In an interview last week, Stimson, a retired professor of political science who lives in Chapel Hill, said the liberal shift resembles the public mood on the cusp of the 1960s, “That’s where the electorate is. It’s like the time of Kennedy and Johnson. They are going to respond more warmly to policies from the left.”
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