[rad-green] More Than 75% of Democrats Would Support a Socialist for President: Gallup

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/more-75-democrats-would-support-socialist-president-gallup
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/more-75-democrats-would-support-socialist-president-gallup>Common
Dreams          February 11, 2020More Than 75% of Democrats Would Support a
Socialist for President: Gallup"When Americans—especially millennials—think
of 'socialism,' they primarily think about Bernie Sanders, Western European
democracies, income equality, and access to healthcare."by Julia Conley,
staff writer*

*A Gallup poll released Tuesday showed that contrary to popular claims
about the 2020 election, 76% of Democrats would vote for a socialist
presidential candidate. (Photo: Molly Adams
<https://flic.kr/p/VX2AxT>/Flickr/cc)*

A new Gallup survey showing most Americans would not be willing to vote for
a socialist also revealed that an overwhelming majority of Democratic
voters said they would back a candidate like Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is
leading
<https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/nevada/> in
national polls
<https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-bloomberg-michael-2020-primaries-9ec1eb23-51c8-4a0b-a5f8-1bb6959c62e6.html>
.

More than three-quarters of Democratic voters
<https://news.gallup.com/poll/285563/socialism-atheism-political-liabilities.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication>surveyed—76%—told
Gallup they would support a presidential candidate who identified as a
socialist.

A large chunk of independent voters said they would back such a candidate,
with 45% saying so, while only 17% of Republicans reported the same.
Overall, 45% of 1,033 respondents said they would back a socialist in the
poll, which had a margin of error of four percentage points.

The poll was released Tuesday as voters in New Hampshire head to the polls,
a day after Sanders and one of his most high-profile surrogates, Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), rallied
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/10/new-hampshire-rally-sanders-calls-7500-supporters-transform-america-primary-day>more
than 7,500 voters in Durham, New Hampshire.

Both politicians identify as democratic socialists and promote a vision of
the U.S. which would more closely resemble other wealthy countries such as
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Residents of those Nordic nations benefit from
government-run healthcare which is free at the point of delivery and which
has been shown to have better health outcomes
<https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/what-can-america-learn-from-sweden-about-healthcare/>
for
the population; public college that is tuition-free or nearly free
<https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-with-free-higher-education-no-tuition-college#norway-pays-the-most-for-college-subsidies-spending-13-of-its-annual-gdp-6>;
and robust labor protections including guaranteed paid family leave
<https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/16/u-s-lacks-mandated-paid-parental-leave/>
, vacation time
<https://www.businessinsider.com/how-paid-vacation-time-is-different-around-the-world-2018-7#denmark-6>,
and unions.
<https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290674/union-labor-movement-europe-bargaining-fight-15-ghent>

"We're moving forward," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We're moving forward to a
multiracial democracy, forward to guaranteed healthcare, forward to a
living wage, for fighting for our neighbors."

"As someone who has been told to go back, imma tell you, we're moving
forward.

Forward to a multiracial democracy

Forward to guaranteed healthcare

Forward to a living wage

Forward to fighting for our neighbors

Forward for indigenous rights and honoring sovereignty" @AOC
<https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> pic.twitter.com/TLCLtSASZe
<https://t.co/TLCLtSASZe>

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 11, 2020
<https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1227045649973071873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Headlines
<https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482469-majority-in-new-poll-says-they-would-not-vote-for-socialist-gallup>
regarding
the survey suggested
<https://nypost.com/2020/02/11/majority-of-americans-would-vote-against-socialist-candidate-for-president-poll-finds/amp/>
it
had dire implications for a socialist candidate in the 2020 election,
despite the fact that the majority of respondents with negative feelings
about socialism would be less likely to support any Democratic candidate
than the Democratic respondents.

As *Common Dreams* reported
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/28/poll-sponsored-anti-communists-discovers-70-us-millennials-ready-ditch-capitalism>
last
October, an annual poll regarding attitudes about socialism revealed why
Democratic voters aren't fearful of the word, despite fear-mongering
by the corporate
media
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/08/chris-matthews-slammed-spreading-misinformation-about-sanders-democratic-socialist>
and President Donald Trump
<https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-socialism-2020> about
socialist countries.

"When Americans—especially millennials—think of 'socialism,' they primarily
think about Bernie Sanders, Western European democracies, income equality,
and access to healthcare," acknowledged
<https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/2018-annual-report>  the Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation of the poll, which showed that 70% of U.S.
millennials would back a socialist for president.  "They also do not
associate socialism with communism and authoritarianism."

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