[rad-green] 92% of Democrats, 67% of Swing Voters in Key Battleground States Support Green New Deal. Pelosi's Opposition 'Out of Touch'

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/07/when-92-democrats-and-67-swing-voters-key-battleground-states-support-green-new-deal
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/07/when-92-democrats-and-67-swing-voters-key-battleground-states-support-green-new-deal>Common
Dreams          November 07, 2019When 92% of Democrats and 67% of Swing
Voters in Key Battleground States Support Green New Deal, Pelosi's
Opposition Called 'Out of Touch'"If Democrats want to win back states that
delivered the election to Trump in 2016," said the Sunrise Movement, "these
numbers show that candidates need to embrace the Green New Deal."by Jon
Queally, staff writer*

[image: Demonstrators are seen during "Fire Drill Friday" climate change
protest on October 25, 2019 in Washington, DC .Protesters demand immediate
action for a Green New Deal. Clean renewable energy by 2030, and no new
exploration or drilling for Fossil Fuels. (Photo: John Lamparski/Getty
Images)]

*Demonstrators are seen during "Fire Drill Friday" climate change protest
on October 25, 2019 on Capitol Hill. (Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images)*

The youth-led Sunrise Movement pointed to a new poll out Thursday to repeat
their case that Democrats who don't support a bold Green New Deal to help
solve the climate emergency are not only failing a moral test but also
making a deeply flawed political calculation about the public's readiness
for a far-reaching plan to reduce emissions and transform the economy for
the good of all workers.

"These results confirm what we've known for months: the Green New Deal
isn't just the right policy to confront the climate crisis and create
millions of well-paying jobs in the process, but it's also smart politics."
—Stephen O'Hanlon, Sunrise MovementThe survey
<http://files.kff.org/attachment/REPORT-Blue-Wall-Voices-Project> (pdf) in
question, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation in collaboration with
the Cook Political Report, took a detailed look at both Democratic and
swing voters in four key battleground states—Michigan, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—where President Donald Trump either beat
Hillary Clinton in 2016 or outperformed expectations. While Clinton edged
out her Republican rival in Minnesota, Trump claimed the other three—wins
that many cite as pivotal for his overall victory.

Despite frequent arguments to the contrary made by corporate Democrats,
among the overall findings of the KFF/Cook analysis is that few Democratic
voters in these four states currently see "progressive positions as deal
breakers in their 2020 vote." In addition, a specific look at the Green New
Deal shows a full 92% of self-identified Democratics back such a plan.

[image: screen_shot_2019-11-07_at_3.40.14_pm.png]

In its comments, Sunrise pointed to the 67%—a full two-thirds—of
self-identified swing voters in these key battle ground states who said
they also believe the Green New Deal is a good idea.

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"These results confirm what we've known for months: the Green New Deal
isn't just the right policy to confront the climate crisis and create
millions of well-paying jobs in the process, but it's also smart politics,"
said Stephen O'Hanlon, Sunrise's communications director, in a statement.

"If Democrats want to win back states that delivered the election to Trump
in 2016, these numbers show that candidates need to embrace the Green New
Deal," O'Hanlon added. "Huge numbers of voters, especially new and
infrequent ones, love the Green New Deal. That's why nearly every
presidential candidate is out there campaigning on it. It's time for
Democratic leaders in Congress to follow."

O'Hanlon said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the corporate Democrats
who continue to resist the urgent demands for a Green New Deal are "showing
they're out of touch—not just with the science of climate change, but with
the political mood across the country too. They need to reverse course and
follow the leadership of young people, or risk waking up to another
shocking election result next year."

During a sit-in last week at Pelosi's office on Capitol Hill, a number of
Sunrise activists pointed to the deadly and destruction wildfires
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/30/step-or-step-aside-california-engulfed-flames-climate-activists-occupy-nancy-pelosis>
in
her homestate of California to remind the Speaker of just how vital it
remains for all Democrats to get on board with a set of proposals bold
enough to make the kind of change the scientific community says is
necessary to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

"Step up or step aside," the activists told Pelosi.

"Our rage has to burn as fiercely as every fire we witness," one
participant said in a statement. "And we're going to keep sitting in and
striking until our leaders feel it too."

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