Most NM voters support police, oppose cuts

Albuquerque Journal ^ | 9/9/20 | Elise kaplan

[brownwill6767]

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A strong majority of likely New Mexico voters across all age groups, regions of the state and political parties approve of the way the police in their communities are doing their jobs, according to a recent Journal Poll.

And the majority said they oppose cutting some funding from police departments and shifting it to social services.

“It’s consistent that if people have strong approval ratings for the police, they would also oppose (cutting) funding,” said Brian Sanderoff, president of Research & Polling Inc., which conducted the statewide survey. “If you’re very concerned about crime – Albuquerque, as an example, has a high violent crime rate – many people would therefore oppose cutting the department.”

[Dan in Wichita]

And yet a recent poll showed Biden with a double digit lead in NM. Makes no sense, so I’m not buying it.

[griswold3]

https://twitter.com/GrantB911/status/1303478002077044736
Posted on another thread also
But, speaking of supporting your local police officer......

[shelterguy]

President Hillary believed the polls.

[TheConservativeTejano]

President Hillary believed the polls.

Partner, her supporters were openly crying tears after hearing that she lost and Miss Hillary lost deservedly.

This time we hear the BLM Communists and Antifa Nazis will riot and loot and continue throwing firebombs at Police and Buildings so that they can burn all the way to the ground.

OMG, we are so scared of these left winged nut cases.

[euram]

When polled on the actual issues, such as the police, riots, illegal immigration, the economy, etc., the overwhelming majority side with Trump. Then turn around and say they are voting for Biden. There is a disconnect there someplace.

[rightwingcrazy]

“There is a disconnect there someplace.”

That’s how the Leftist brain works. The saner ones actually can revert to common sense when facing immediate, real-life crises. But their politics need not make any sense at all. Why should it?

[from occupied ga]

NM has been a reliably Democrat stronghold for decades. They may not want police cuts but they’ll vote Democrat anyway.

[Tijeras_Slim]

That’s probably because the psycho gangbangers are invading the liberal enclaves.

[Dan in Wichita]

If true, a textbook case of cognitive dissonance.

[fortheDeclaration]

Don’t you know that Biden now supports the police?

[AuH2ORepublican]

“NM has been a reliably Democrat stronghold for decades. They may not want police cuts but they’ll vote Democrat anyway.”

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NM was carried by Gore by around 300 votes in 2000, was carried by President Bush in his 2004 reelection, elected and reelected a GOP governor in 2010 and 2014, and cast more votes for President Trump + Libertarian Johnson + McMullin + other right-of-center presidential candidates in 2016 than it did for Hillary + Green Stein + other keft-of-center presidential candidates. The state is not the hopelessly Democrat wasteland that you imagine it to be.

[CedarDave]

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[Mr. Jeeves]

There is a disconnect there someplace.

Trump is a racist. They saw it on CNN.