This Poll Is the Best News Liberals Have Had in a Long Time
By Eric Levitz
February 1, 2017
11:56 a.m.
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A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 57 percent of the public heard “a lot” about the Women’s March — a result that suggests the anti-Trump demonstrators attracted as much attention in a single day of protests as the tea party movement did through months of organizing and demonstrations. Polls from Pew Research Center in 2010 found that just 31 percent of voters had heard “a lot” about the right-wing movement in March of that year, with awareness of the group reaching a peak of 54 percent, just before the midterm elections in October.
And the Women’s March didn’t just make a bigger impression than the tea party — they also made a better one.
As liberals are painfully aware, being more popular with the public is no guarantee of electoral success. After all, nonvoters are disproportionately Democratic. To make America “already great” again, liberals won’t just need to win over a majority of voters — they’ll also need to mobilize them, starting in the 2018 midterms.
But the Post poll has excellent news on that front, too: 40 percent of Democratic women say they plan to get more involved in political causes this year. Only 25 percent of all American adults, and 27 percent of Democratic men (sigh), say the same. Democrats under 50 — particularly those who lean left — are also planning to step up their game in large numbers.
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