Friday, December 16, 2022

Pollsters could do better

 The Los Angeles Times' David Lauter remarks:

The Suffolk University poll found that 65% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they wanted “Republicans to continue the policies Trump pursued in office, but with a different Republican nominee for president,” compared with 31% who wanted Trump to run again.
This is the sort of conclusion that that tells me nothing. What do these voters think were Donald Trump's policies? As a candidate for re-election in 2020, he apparently insisted that the Republicans run without a party platform -- their only promise was to adhere to whatever their Orange King wanted.

  • Was it Trump's cruelty to migrants that they liked so much?
  • The tax cuts -- though unless they were millionaires they didn't get much?
  • Conservative judges? Probably, but other polls suggest that a lot of Republicans are unhappy with their Supremes allowing abortion to be made illegal.
  • Sucking up to Putin?

Inquiring minds want to know ... and want pollsters to ask better questions.

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