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Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people: POLL
ABC News / Disney ^ | October 31, 2021 | By Quinn Scanlan

Posted on 10/31/2021 8:15:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Negotiations on the infrastructure and social program bills have consumed Capitol Hill for months. Still, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday finds Democrats are failing to sell the legislation to the public, who are broadly unaware of what is in the spending packages or skeptical they would help people like themselves, or the economy, if signed into law.

Although a majority (55%) of the public is following news about the negotiations at least somewhat closely, about 7 in 10 (69%) Americans said they know just some or little to nothing about what's in both bills. Fewer than half (31%) said they know a great deal or good amount.

The ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, found that a plurality (32%) of Americans think the bills would hurt people like them if they became law, while fewer (25%) think it would help them. Nearly 2 in 10 (18%) think the bills would make no difference, and 24% said they didn't know.

Even among Democrats alone, fewer than half (47%) think the two bills would help people like them.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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METHODOLOGY: This ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs' KnowledgePanel® Oct. 29-30, 2021, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 514 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 4.7 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions were 31%-24%-36%, Democrats-Republicans-independents. See the poll's top-line results and details on the methodology here.
1 posted on 10/31/2021 8:15:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do you “sell” the concept of giving up your freedom and wealth?


2 posted on 10/31/2021 8:17:35 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It doesn't matter.

The people get what the people want.
The people want what the people get.

The propaganda machine will assure us all that we are very happy, and if you're not, then you're a racist.

3 posted on 10/31/2021 8:19:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Pretty much. The left will destroy your life whether you fall in line or not.


4 posted on 10/31/2021 8:20:14 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gosh, can’t even give a turd away.


5 posted on 10/31/2021 8:20:53 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good )
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To: exnavy

Earlier version of poll was “Which do you like best about the Demos, being stabbed in the back with runaway inflation or hit over the head with a hammer by runaway crime and immigrant invasions?”

It was too close to call so they reworded the poll questions.


6 posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: exnavy

It’s hard to sell stuff that sucks. Their real question is why isn’t our propaganda working and how do we tweak it so that the rubes take the hook.


7 posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:15 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With few exceptions, THE TRUTH about Marxist, dictatorial, government-controlled countries and lives, are NEVER sold to the people. They are installed against the citizens’ will by force.


8 posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:16 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
about 7 in 10 (69%) Americans said they know just some or little to nothing about what's in both bills.

About the same numbers applies to members of congress.

9 posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:29 AM PDT by grobdriver
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Since no one was ever directly told what was in the agenda...it was like one of those flea-market gimmicks where they sell you a box of something but you just don’t know if it’s forty cans of beans, or ten rolls of toilet paper.

If you said it was purely (100-percent) for replacing bridges around the nation...it might have had a better sells-routine.


10 posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

11 posted on 10/31/2021 8:27:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Jim W N

They are installed against the citizens’ will by force.

**************

Easy to do when the population is largely uninformed and apathetic.


12 posted on 10/31/2021 8:28:35 AM PDT by Starboard
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13 posted on 10/31/2021 8:30:29 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another failure for the government/media propaganda complex!


14 posted on 10/31/2021 8:36:04 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These laws are the like poisonous mushrooms. They grow in the dark in the midst of feces.


15 posted on 10/31/2021 8:46:03 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How can you believe someone, when everything they touch is turning to dog poop?


16 posted on 10/31/2021 8:54:44 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“failing to sell agenda”

That’s OK, they’ll just force it down our throats, instead.


17 posted on 10/31/2021 9:03:14 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What they are selling should be stamped

“Made in China”

18 posted on 10/31/2021 9:05:09 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obamacare tells you all you need to know.
Congress creates a healthcare plan Congress is exempt from following.
Every American has worse and more expensive healthcare.


19 posted on 10/31/2021 9:06:02 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

20 posted on 10/31/2021 9:06:10 AM PDT by windsorknot
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