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This is puzzling. Though GOP was party of small gummit and anti-globalism, what is going on?
Democratic voters support cutting aid to Israel, so why have only two candidates even mentioned it?
Michael Arria on September 17, 2019
Photo on Twitter from the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (Photo: @Tamarghabin/Twitter)
A new report shows that a net majority of Democratic voters support cutting aid to Israel based on the country’s human rights violations. Nonetheless, only two Democratic presidential candidates have floated the idea during this campaign and neither has provided much in way of details.
YouGov Blue conducted a poll for the progressive think tank Data For Progress between August 15th–21st. 1,380 voters were asked a question about reducing U.S. military aid to Israel over its human rights abuses and a broader question about reducing aid to other countries for the same reason. The poll’s accompanying report was authored by Data For Progress Senior Fellow and IfNotNow co-founder Emma Saltzberg.
Saltzberg found that 45% of voters support reducing Israel’s military aid for human rights violations, while 34% oppose such a policy. When that idea is expanded to countries more broadly, the numbers go way up: 61% support it, while only 12% are against it.
When these numbers are broken down by party affiliation, the contrast is striking. Democratic voters support such a policy towards Israel at the same rate that they do for other countries: 64% support it and only 11% oppose it. That means a net majority of Democratic voters (53%) support it. The numbers are even higher for respondents who reported voting for a Democratic congressional candidate in the last election. 67% of those Democrats support reducing aid to Israel and only 10% support it.
As for Republicans, 56% of them support reducing aid to human rights abusers and just 16% oppose it, but apply that same question to Israel and the numbers almost flip themselves: 19% of Republican voters support such a policy towards Israel and 64% oppose it.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/democratic-candidates-mentioned/
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Democratic voters support cutting aid to Israel, so why have only two candidates even mentioned it?
Michael Arria on September 17, 2019
Photo on Twitter from the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (Photo: @Tamarghabin/Twitter)
A new report shows that a net majority of Democratic voters support cutting aid to Israel based on the country’s human rights violations. Nonetheless, only two Democratic presidential candidates have floated the idea during this campaign and neither has provided much in way of details.
YouGov Blue conducted a poll for the progressive think tank Data For Progress between August 15th–21st. 1,380 voters were asked a question about reducing U.S. military aid to Israel over its human rights abuses and a broader question about reducing aid to other countries for the same reason. The poll’s accompanying report was authored by Data For Progress Senior Fellow and IfNotNow co-founder Emma Saltzberg.
Saltzberg found that 45% of voters support reducing Israel’s military aid for human rights violations, while 34% oppose such a policy. When that idea is expanded to countries more broadly, the numbers go way up: 61% support it, while only 12% are against it.
When these numbers are broken down by party affiliation, the contrast is striking. Democratic voters support such a policy towards Israel at the same rate that they do for other countries: 64% support it and only 11% oppose it. That means a net majority of Democratic voters (53%) support it. The numbers are even higher for respondents who reported voting for a Democratic congressional candidate in the last election. 67% of those Democrats support reducing aid to Israel and only 10% support it.
As for Republicans, 56% of them support reducing aid to human rights abusers and just 16% oppose it, but apply that same question to Israel and the numbers almost flip themselves: 19% of Republican voters support such a policy towards Israel and 64% oppose it.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/democratic-candidates-mentioned/
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