What polling on gun control says about public sentiment and its impact on elections. - MaddowBlog
75 percent of Americans are on board with a national gun sale database.At face value, a poll like this might seem like great news for reformers and terrible news for Republicans. After all, it’s an election year. Which elected officials want to take a stand against an idea that 88 percent of Americans support?Part of the problem with polling like this is that it doesn’t always measure the intensity and importance of these opinions. Rather, they reflect preferences.
Years later, the polls haven’t changed, and neither has the political calculus made by GOP officials. The New York TimesThe calculation behind Republicans’ steadfast opposition to any new gun regulations — even in the face of the kind of unthinkable massacre that occurred Tuesday at an elementary school in Texas — is a fairly simple one for Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
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