Posted on 05/10/2019 7:32:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For months, Republicans have spent a tremendous amount of energy railing against the Green New Deal, the pitch from progressives to drastically reduce the nation's contributions to global warming while checking off a list of liberal aspirations, such as improving health-care access.
If the goal of the anti-Green New Deal campaign was to sour the plan in the minds of Republican voters, it appears to be working.
New polling from Yale and George Mason universities suggests that support for that climate plan from prominent freshman congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped steeply among Republicans over the past four months since she and other lawmakers formally introduced it in February.
When people were provided a description of its aspirations - but not of any of its potential costs or drawbacks - big majorities said they supported the idea, including most Democrats, Republicans and independents.
In the ensuing months the Green New Deal has gotten a lot of attention, so much so that by April nearly 3 in 5 U.S. adults said they've heard at least a little about it. And over the same period, opinions of the Green New Deal have also grown more partisan.
Support for the Green New Deal among self-indentified conservative Republicans shot down from 57 percent to 32 percent. Among moderate Republicans, support similarly fell from three-fourths to about two-thirds.
During that time, Republicans honed a message of opposition to the idea. Lawmakers claimed the Green New Deal, if enacted, would ban hamburgers, air travel and even ice cream.
That tsunami of dissent came even though Ocasio-Cortez's resolution does not mention any of those three things. Instead, an erroneous summary of the Green New Deal published by her office, but then retracted, mentioned eventually wanting to get rid of “farting cows and airplanes.”
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Winning!
How many Republicans supported it? No way.
Ripping renovating millions of houses and buildings alone is a ludicrous idea. Anyone with half a brain could see young bug-eye's plan is not feasible. She might as well have suggested running our economy on unicorn farts.
This is too funny, as the Post tries to paint this in the best possible light.
So there was an erroneous summary of The Green New Deal that was published? The one that ocasio-cortez and her people set up? So the post is criticizing those of us who are reacting to what ocasio-cortez herself published?
Whose fault is it that they published an erroneous version of the green New Deal? Because of their ineptitude somehow we are supposed to just ignore what they told us their plans are?
Or did they decide after the fact that it was an erroneous version of the green New Deal, after the negative reaction to it?
I don’t understand how you can blame those of us who are critical of the green New Deal when we were simply reacting to what ocasio-cortez herself told us she would like to do.
HUH? A gopE deal “against” the new deal of green? That doesn’t sound right.
Maybe is more like “is”.
What's important is dem support and how that has changed.
I thought she had...
Smile...
Probably hadn’t thought of it yet.
OK let me understand this. When people were presented a bunch of fantasies with magical powers, they said “cool”. But then when they were presented with the harsh realities of putting this into action they recoiled? Gee imagine that.
You would have to have the IQ of a mushroom to believe the Green New Deal was good for America and even practical.
Has "railing" become a new verb for uncontrollable laughter?
The President has been downplaying opposition to the Green New Deal in hopes that the Democrat nominee runs on it. The absolute minimum of opposition from Republicans has still been enough, according to the WaPo, to scuttle the plan. Sad. It would have been great fun watching Trump pummel Biden with Green Hope.
Given free reign, dems would eventually force every bit of that "prematurely released" plan to save America and the earth.
“Support ... among self-indentified conservative Republicans shot down from 57 percent to 32 percent.”
What a load of hooey! What’s their source — Commies R Us?
I suggest: “support from conservative Republicans stayed steady at zero.”
It’s not as if there was some grand campaign against the Green New Deal with some masterfully thought out strategy. All Republicans did was point out how insane it is and tell people to read it for themselves if they have any doubts.
Agreed. Even politically moderate folks think that the GND is a pile of nutbaggery.
Exactly.
I didn’t have to know any details, true or false, to know I’d oppose it. All I needed to know was that it was called the “Green New Deal” and that it was proposed by AOC.
Health care and ice cream? LOL. The real opposition is about the Green New Deal destroying our economy, making day to day life massively more expensive for the little people, reversing Trump’s achievement of making us energy independent, and costing hundreds of thousands of people their jobs. Of course the Post is one of the best propaganda organs in this country so they don’t want to mention those things…
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