Everything depends on the wording of the poll.
I can produce poll results on individual questions of 0 to 100 percent depending solely on wording.
“I can produce poll results on individual questions of 0 to 100 percent depending solely on wording.”
How do you suppose the question was phrased? “Do you support cutting entitlement programs and slowly starving babies just foto watch them die, or would you prefer to rainbows, puppy dogs, unicorns, and keeping things as they are?”
Granted, there must be some way to frame the issue so as to forestall accusations of ending the American Dream as we know it and throwing the “less fortunate” out in the street. However, the fact remains that people are uniquely stubborn on this issue. It’s called the Third Rail for a reason. Cuts For Thee But Not For Me is as powerful as any political truth, much more enduring than Throw the Bastards Out or Not In My Backyard.