Least we believe that “Liberal” policies won’t resonate with voters-
Popular: The Green New Deal at 81% (Yale/GMU, 12/2018), a wealth tax at 61% (Morning Consult/Politico, 2/2019), a top marginal income-tax rate of 70 percent at 59% (Hill/Harris, 1/2019), the abolition of the Electoral College at 55% (Pew, 4/2018), free college tuition at 62% (Bankrate, 7/2016), and Medicare for All at 70% (Reuters/Ipsos, 7/2018).
There’s not great data on the cancellation of student debt, but the best I could find was at 41% support, 35% oppose in a poll by the left-leaning but relatively trustworthy group Data for Progress, 10/2018.’
The logical corollary to those polls would be to ask how well do people understand those ideas and their inevitable consequences? Do they know what is actually proposed in the “Green New Deal” and understand that there is not a single proposal in it that is even possible? Can they comprehend the effect on a business of a 70% tax rate, when typical profit margins are in the single digit percentages? Do they expect college professors to work without pay, publishers to provide free textbooks, etc., for their free educations?
It seems to me that those polls are reflective of profound ignorance among those polled. No one who truly understands the questions asked would support those concepts.