Large bipartisan majorities of voters favor Members of Congress using new tools for consulting representative samples of their constituents on policy decisions, and to take the recommendations of their constituents – as a whole – into account when voting. More than four-in-ten are even ready to cross party lines to vote for candidates who make this commitment–even when an incumbent of their own party is named.
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Public Opposes Expanding Presidential Power to Control Independent Agencies, Block Federal Spending, Replace Civil Servants
In the midst of current debates about expanding Presidential authority, a new survey finds majority opposition among the public. Large majorities (65-69%) – bipartisan in all but one case – oppose putting seven currently independent agencies under direct Presidential control. A bipartisan majority of two-thirds (67%) say Presidents should not be able to unilaterally remove…
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Large Bipartisan Majorities Oppose Deep Cuts to Foreign Aid
College Park, MD – An overwhelming majority of 89% of Americans say the US should spend at least one percent of the federal budget on foreign aid – the current amount the US spends on aid. This includes 84% of Republicans and 94% of Democrats. Fifty-eight percent oppose abolishing the US Agency for International Development…
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Common Ground in the Battlegrounds
Surveys in Six Swing States and Nationwide Find Over Fifty Policies Supported by Majorities of Both Republicans and Democrats A series of surveys conducted in battleground states and nationwide asked about 66 Federal policy issues across a wide range of controversial topics, and found that for 55 of them majorities of Republicans and Democrats in…