# The Andrew Yang Presidential Campaign thread **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andrew-yang-presidential-campaign-thread/829555 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [February 14, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andrew-yang-presidential-campaign-thread/829555 "2019-02-14T21:16:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 581
### Author: ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid) #### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andrew-yang-presidential-campaign-thread/829555/581 "2020-01-27T14:26:50Z")
You can go to [the 2/18 Gallup poll](https://news.gallup.com/poll/228194/public-split-basic-income-workers-replaced-robots.aspx) itself to see the breakout to make a bit more apples to apples. In that Gallup poll before Yang’s campaign it was 65% favorable/35% unfavorable among Democrats and 48%/52% among Independents. The current Emerson 53% favorable number is just likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers. Still different varieties of apples but more consistent with a LOSS of support for the idea since Yang than an increase. Looking at the [Hill/HarrisX September](https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/463055-more-voters-support-universal-basic-income) poll among Democrats it was 66% favorable and Independents ran 48% Favorable - up from their 2/19 poll, less than the newest Emerson results, and on par with Gallups 2/18 numbers. It would be a bit insane to look at the Emerson number and claim that he’s moved the needle an insane amount on this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andrew-yang-presidential-campaign-thread/829555)._