Here are some other highlights from DFP over the past week:
Imagine how tired we are: Build Back Better edition
You’re sick and tired of hearing about it, we’re sick and tired of writing about it, and the American public is sick and tired of seeing Congress do nothing about it: but yeah, the Build Back Better Act is STILL POPULAR.
New Data for Progress polling shows that voters want Build Back Better passed as soon as possible — by a +19-point margin, voters say it’s important that Build Back Better becomes law before the new year — and this includes Independents by a +21-point margin as well.
It is a massively, massively popular bill — and it must get passed as soon as possible. Though mostly because, seriously, we can’t take writing about how popular it is every week anymore.
For a full, snark-free analysis of Build Back Better polling, Anika Dandekar and Ethan Winter have a blog for you here.
In a Plot Twist, Blatant Moral Bankruptcy Unpopular with American Voters
For years, the U.S. has been selling arms to Saudi Arabia, a country our own State Department admits is actively engaging in human rights abuses at home and abroad. President Biden froze those arms sales within a week of taking office, but lifted them a few months later. And after stating they would end U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen, the Biden administration then sold them another $650 million worth of weapons last month.
Yeah, we’re confused, too.
Data for Progress has polling showing how widely unpopular that decision is with voters across the political spectrum.
Read the full analysis from Ahmad Ali here.
Take its name out of your mouth: It’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — not BIF
Last month, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. (You’re forgiven for thinking this happened, like, six months ago. Time is a flat circle and everything hurts.)
The bill — more commonly referred to as the “BIF,” or the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, which is also the name that the White House uses — is a landmark investment in roads, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure repairs that’s widely popular with voters.
But a new Data for Progress analysis shows that the name BIF actually isn’t as advantageous politically as calling the bill by its formal name: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
When polled on the same bill, voters signal more support when the legislation is referred to as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — with support increasing by a +5-point margin among Democrats and by a startling +14-point margin among Republicans.
In other words, the White House has an opportunity to substantially increase Republican support for their administration — but right now, they’re BIF-ing it. (See what we did there?)
Read the full analysis from Lew Blank here.
Mandela’s got a plan for that
Mandela Barnes, the current Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, is running for Senate as the highest-profile progressive in the race. This week, he introduced his first policy plan for his campaign with the Data for Progress Blog — and it’s a sweeping proposal for democracy reform. The plan includes provisions to stop corporate influence on our elections, expand voting rights, and end partisan gerrymandering. It also calls on the Senate to abolish the filibuster, a popular progressive proposal championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who endorsed his campaign.
Read the full plan here.
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