Medicare for All

We found that likely caucus-goers, similar to Democrats nationally, overwhelmingly support Medicare for All, with 78% of them backing the policy and only 15% opposing. Support varies little by gender, education or age. This is roughly in line with what we’ve found nationally; for instance we recently found Democrats nationally supporting a specific version of Medicare for All with a specific financing plan 81% to 7%.

Green New Deal

Support for the Green New Deal was similar in level to support for Medicare for All, at 83%. However, support for the Green New Deal was more intense, considerably moreso, with 57 percent of likely caucus-goers saying they strongly support it. Similarly to Medicare for All, support is overwhelming among all demographic indicators. Again, this is similar to national support levels. In March, we found that 82% of Democrats nationally support the Green New Deal.

Drug Price Negotiation

Democratic caucus-goers fall heavily in support of allowing the federal government to negotiate pharmaceutical prices. Eighty-five percent support it to only 8% who oppose, a level that is roughly maintained across all demographics.

Government Production of Insulin

Allowing the government to produce insulin had the highest of any question we asked, with 86% in support and 7% in opposition.

Supreme Court Expansion

The process questions we tested both had majority support, but less overwhelmingly so than the policy questions. We included arguments commonly presented for both process questions. Expanding the court was supported by 59% of respondents and opposed by 27%, still a clear majority.

Ending the Filibuster

Filibuster reform, our other process question, was the only question of the six where Democrats didn’t have unambiguous feelings on the matter. 45% support its abolition, 29% oppose it, and a full 26% don’t know. That last figure is by far the highest of the “Don’t know”s for these six questions, and unlike in the other five questions, where the amount of “strong” responses were larger than or equal to the “somewhat” responses for each side of the issue, each side has more “somewhat” responses than “strong” responses for both the supporting and opposing sides. Only 31% of respondents picked a “strong” response for this issue.