Poll: the Green New Deal is popular in swing House districts
Poll: the Green New Deal is popular in swing House districts
Some Democrats worry the Green New Deal is a political liability. A new poll says otherwise.
By Ella Nilsen on September 26, 2019 4:10 pm
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/9/26/20883384/green-new-deal-poll-swing-districts?__twitter_impression=true
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The Green New Deal — a set of principles for addressing the climate crisis in the US — has become a rallying cry for the Democratic base ever since progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced it in February.
But to go from a big idea to a reality, the Green New Deal needs support from the full ideological spectrum of the Democratic Party. It’s been embraced by a number of leading presidential contenders, but any actual bill would need backing from a Democratic House and Senate as well. While some worry the Green New Deal could be a political liability for Democrats (conservative Republicans have ridiculed and lied about it), there’s new polling that suggests the idea does well in swing districts Democrats flipped in the 2018 midterms.
Progressive think tank Data for Progress and YouGov recently surveyed 1,033 voters in 42 swing House districts across the country; their poll found 49 percent of voters support the Green New Deal, even after being told it would include a large amount of government spending. The poll found 36 percent of voters oppose it. Vox was given a first look at the survey.
“We are told over and over again that the Green New Deal is going to be a political liability for battleground Democrats, and we find that’s not really true,” Julian Brave NoiseCat, the director of strategy around the environmental plan at Data for Progress, told Vox.
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