Quote (thesnipa @ 7 Aug 2019 15:30)
anything you have to illustrate this?
like polling on issues like gun control (or lack thereof), restrictions on abortion, lax policies on regulation, low tax rates, immigration, etc.
corporate leniency on regulation and taxes seems to be the least popular category, although people also bake jobs into the cake and many support corporate tax breaks and deregulation for that reason. lax gun control seems close to 50%, immigration reform seems close to 50%, low taxes for all (even if most go to corporations) seems close to 50%, no allowing abortions up through the third trimester and not at a publicly funded location seems fairly popular especially in the south.
i'm not sure how you could describe the party that has 50% more or less of the govt seats, and WELL over 50% in the south, as a minority in policy popularity. unless you're being so hyperbolic that you claim gerrymandering and other dirty politics fill the entire gap, which you should demonstrate as it has zero face validity.
also this lol. how is the EC the fault of the GOP and how do they "use it" in an unfair way. rules are rules, we play by the rules.
i just have to look at the way you chose to frame those issues to realise that you're very well aware of how unpopular republican policy positions really are.
- there is a solid majority against a ban of abortions, and for upholding roe vs wade. (
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/abortion/447397-77-percent-say-supreme-court-should-uphold-roe-v-wade )
- of course everyone wants their own taxes as low as possible, but the majority of americans oppose the republican way of giving the lion share of tax breaks to corporations and millionaires, blowing a massive hole into the budget, and making empty 'trickle down' promises (
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/15/donald-trump-tax-cuts-unpopular-1273469 )
- over 90% support universal background checks and other common sense gun regulation (
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx )
- an overwhelming majority opposes corporate bribes in elections and wants to do away with citizens united (
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4455238-campaignfinancereport.html )
- most americans are in favour of more environmental protection (
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx )
- a solid majority of americans opposes trump's border wall and favors a path to citizenship for illegals (
https://news.gallup.com/poll/246455/solid-majority-opposes-new-construction-border-wall.aspx )
- most americans think securing elections against foreign meddling is an important issue (
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NPR_Marist-Poll_National-Nature-of-the-Sample-and-Tables_September-2018_1809111654.pdf#page=3 )
- americans are also largely against partisan gerrymandering (
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americans-are-united-against-partisan-gerrymandering )
- a big majority is in favour of dodd-frank and the cfpb (
https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/07/afrcrl-poll-new-survey-reveals-discontent-with-mulvaney-path-at-cfpb/ )
- a majority of americans disagree with trump's trade war policy (
https://news.gallup.com/poll/238013/americans-say-china-tariffs-harmful-helpful.aspx )
i could go on, but that covers many of the main issues i think. now how about you show me some polling that shows support for republican positions?
inb4:
'your sources are unreliable, but i won't provide any alternatives because reasons / those aren't republican positions because they didn't officially admit it / i never claimed both parties' policies were similarly popular...'oh, and regarding the electoral college, you need to learn how to read and stop strawmanning. no one said "unfair" or that republicans established it, or any of the nonsense that you hacks make up because you can't refute my point - it's just one of the items amongst all those "other" means i listed by which republicans 'win' elections.