Polling

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Pretty interesting polling info from NBC/WSJ (predating the Ukraine scandal).

Poll: A record share of voters dislike Trump personally, but Dems face...

A combined 69 percent of registered voters say they don’t like Trump personally, regardless of their feelings about his policy agenda. A record 50 percent say they dislike him personally and dislike his policies, while another 19 percent say that they dislike him but approve of his policies. Just 29 percent say they like Trump personally, with 25 percent saying they also approve of his policy agenda and 4 percent saying they disapprove.

Hard to imagine that anyone outside that 25% is going to be super enthusiastic to go out and vote for him, although obviously some of them will.

On this measure, the high degree of personal dislike for Trump differentiates him from his five most recent predecessors. Majorities of voters said they personally liked Obama, Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan, even though they might disagree vigorously with their political agenda.
In fact, prior to Trump’s presidency, the highest share of voters saying they disliked the president personally — regardless of their views on his policies — was 42 percent for George W. Bush in March 2006, after Hurricane Katrina.

FAKE NEWS!

Seriously, though: if you thought Trump was insecure about his inauguration size, show him this poll. Barack Obama’s “dislike personally” number ranged over his presidency from 15% to 33%. Trump’s has ranged from 59% to 71%!

I think this demonstrates that it is somewhat of a myth that Republicans love him. They are just fiercely loyal to their party, and he is currently their party’s president. The ones who love him are probably almost identical to the small but noisy group who hated Obama.

Now, the Democratic candidates and the issues:

Among Democratic primary voters, 64 percent say they support providing government health care to undocumented immigrants, while just 36 percent of all registered voters agree.
A similar share of Democratic voters — 63 percent — support a single payer ‘Medicare-for-All’ style plan, also backed by Warren and Sanders, that would replace the existing private insurance system. Among voters overall, just 41 percent support that idea.

So…maybe don’t do that? Just a thought.
Instead, do this:

Two-thirds of all voters — 67 percent — and 78 percent of Democrats back an optional program that would allow those under 65 to buy into Medicare just like one can currently buy in to private insurance.

And this:

And 58 percent of all voters support a measure to provide free tuition at state colleges and universities.