Welcome back to the Data for Progress newsletter, your update on our research, blog posts, and memes.


New Nationwide Polls on Green New Deal Priorities
In partnership with the League of Conservation Voters, Data For Progress has conducted nationwide polls of more than 8,000 Americans on 18 key aspects of the Green New Deal. You can break down the interactive data by state and by Congressional district.

What we found was that major policy planks of the Green New Deal, including:
 

• 100 percent renewable energy

• Putting a price on carbon

• Land conservation

• Upgrading buildings

• Investing in public transit, and 

• Removing lead from America’s water and infrastructure

are supported by at least 50 percent of Americans in every state and Congressional district in the U.S., according to modeling by Civis Analytics.
 

To view the interactive data, click here.


New Memo: Israel-Palestine and the 2020 Election
Israel is one of the largest recipients of U.S. military aid, despite leading an occupation of Palestine that the United Nations determined to be illegal under international law. Some Democratic presidential candidates have called for reducing U.S. military aid to Israel to pressure Israel to end the occupation and to reach a just, negotiated solution. 

In our latest memo, we broke down polling data from May showing that Americans are supportive of several policies that pressure Israel to end its human rights violations. 45 percent of American voters, for instance, support reducing military aid to Israel based on human rights violations, while 34 percent oppose.



Democratic voters support reducing aid to Israel at a rate of 64 percent, which is the same rate at which they support cutting aid for human rights abusers overall. Republicans are also supportive of cutting aid to human rights abusers (56 percent), but unlike Democratic voters, they seem to hold Israel to a different standard (only 19 percent support reducing aid to Israel based on human rights violations).

We also broke down how each of the five highest-polling Democratic candidates — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg — stand on specific aspects of the U.S.’ relationship with Israel, including reducing military aid to Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS). To read our analyses, click here.


Two Important Data For Progress Campaigns
Data for Progress, Working Families Party and Sheriffs for Trusting Communities have created New Sheriffs In Town, a campaign to support organizers and sheriff candidates who support ending mass incarceration and stopping deportations. To read more and donate, click here.

We’re also working on “Give Smart - Flip Texas,” an initiative to support Eliz Markowitz, a candidate running for Texas House District 28. To read more and donate, click here.


Data Bytes

• O’Rourke and Klobuchar Are Doing the Most For Down-Ballot Candidates: According to our Party Builder Leaderboard, Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar are doing the most to stand with state legislative candidates, followed by Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren.
  
  
  
  To read the Buzzfeed News breakdown of these results by Data For Progress’ Sean McElwee and Future Now Fund’s Aaron Kleinman, click here.
   

• A Green Homes Guarantee Is Popular: Last week, Bernie Sanders released an ambitious housing agenda that’s also integrated into his Green New Deal proposal. Our polling shows that Americans are highly supportive of this agenda, with 60 percent supporting new public housing and 57 percent supporting green investments into frontline communities.
  
  
  
   

• Americans Want to Break Up Companies Like Amazon and Google: According to new Data For Progress polling published in Vox, two thirds of Americans support breaking up big companies by undoing their recent mergers, such as Facebook acquiring Instagram, in order to encourage competition.
  
  
  
  Support was similar between Democrats and Republicans. Americans also support breaking up big companies for the purpose of preventing platforms from promoting content they benefit from financially.
  
   

• Is This Art? Your Answer Can Explain Your Political Views: Would you consider the following image art?
  
  
  
  If you think it is, you’re likely to disapprove of Trump’s job performance. If you think it isn’t, you’re more likely to be pro-Trump.
  
   

• Americans Want to Change the 2001 AUMF: The Authorization of Use of Military Force signed by George W. Bush in 2001 is largely responsible for the U.S.’ devastating military operations for the past 18 years.
  
  The good news? According to a recent poll, 49 percent of Americans want to change the AUMF, while only 33 percent want to keep it in place.
   

• Voters Support Warren’s $200 Social Security Increase: On September 12, Elizabeth Warren released a plan that would increase Social Security checks by $200, or roughly 15 percent. According to our polling data, this is extremely popular, with 76 percent of Americans supporting the measure, including 89 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of Republicans.
  
  

From The Blog
Fossil Fuel Phaseout is Popular
The New Sheriffs Coming to Town
A Green Homes Guarantee Is Popular
August 2019 in Political Twitter
Social Security: Warren’s “Plan for That” Enjoys Majority Support Across the Electorate

Media Hits
The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History @Vice
A New Poll Shows Elizabeth Warren And Joe Biden Leading After The Last Debate. And Warren Has More Support From Other Candidates’ Voters. @Buzzfeed News
Reject the 'jobs versus environment' narrative – we can do both @The Guardian
Americans Are Starting to Favor a Major Break With the DC Foreign Policy Consensus @Splinter News 
The Sanders "Workplace Democracy Plan" would transform labor law @Strikewave
Opinion: Here Are The 2020 Democrats, Ranked By What They're Doing For The Rest Of The Party @Buzzfeed News
The Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope @Rolling Stone
Poll: Democratic Voters Support Cutting Aid to Israel @Jewish Currents
Sanders Calls for a National Right to Housing @Forbes
Climate Action is Not Controversial — the Data Proves It @Crooked
Which Candidates’ Climate Plans Put Justice First? We Break It Down @In These Times


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