Ethics in govt: time for indictments related to politicization of FBI under Obama I'm a little surprised that "dealing with immigration" is slightly Dem-favorable. I feel like the RAISE act could be popular if the GOP would push it.
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Much of this is quite typical of how people perceive the strengths of the two parties. Democrats are better at providing things like health care and education, because, well, they're the only one wanting to provide these things. They are also perceived to be better at dealing
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with inequality because, well, they are the ones who say too much inequality is bad. All of this fits into the middle class item. Republicans are better with taxes because they want to cut them. Remember that people want more services and less taxes. Republicans tend to be
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perceived as better with public security because they position themselves as more aggressive, within these items only illegal immigration fits into it. Some things change over time. Republicans used to have a advantage in foreign policy, because, again, they are more aggressive,
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but I do not know if this is true anymore. Democrats have probably always had an edge in dealing with the environment, but that may have increased.
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Oh of course, these poll results should not be interpreted as coherent thoughts. Of course people want more services and lower taxes.
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(It should be noted that even promising people everything they want doesn't necessarily win elections since people are better at thinking about a coherent whole than about individual answers like this)
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That is, they know that it's impossible to get everything they want even if they say they want both lower taxes and more services.
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So these responses are indeed mostly just kneejerk. Republicans get credit for military because they are thought of as aggressive and want to spend more. Dems get health care, etc, as you say. But there's some room to change perceptions especially on the environmental question
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We need right wing cultural values and left wing Teddy Roosevelt economics and environmentalism
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