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Welcome back to the Data for Progress newsletter, your weekly update on our research, blog posts, and memos.
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You might have caught our Executive Director Sean’s dad joke this week: “It's Joe Manchin's houseboat. We're all just getting nauseous on it.” It’s a good one, Sean (and seriously... who lives on a houseboat?) but it’s also a worrying reality: progressives have to bring centrist senators like Joe Manchin aboard on any policy Dems want to pass. Even if it is Joe Manchin’s world, he should know that the legislation he’s blocking — like the For the People Act — is extremely popular in his state.
Speaking of the world — new polling by us, David Binder Research, and Open Society Foundations finds that Americans want to vaccinate it. In a new memo, we find that likely voters overwhelmingly link a pandemic recovery in the U.S. to a global recovery, one which involves vaccinating countries around the world.
To be more specific:
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83% of voters want to share extra vaccines we have with other countries
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89% voters want governments and pharmaceutical companies across the world to collaborate to end the pandemic
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74% of voters want the U.S. to help countries like India who are overwhelmed by the coronavirus
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76% of voters also want the U.S. to take a leading role in the global initiative to vaccinate countries across the world, with high levels of support across partisanship
You can read the full memo here.
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