[LI] Poll: Majority of Democrats say socialism has 'positive impact'With a two term communist sitting in the WH, a Clinton redux on the horizon, and Bernie Sanders in the race, a poll was needed ?
The term 'socialist' once was used as an epithet in American politics. Perhaps no more.
In a year in which Bernie Sanders, a self-described 'Democratic Socialist,' is running a competitive primary campaign for the White House, a new survey finds that a healthy portion of Democratic primary voters are favorably inclined toward socialism.
Nearly six-in-ten Democratic primary voters believe socialism has a 'positive impact on society,' according to polling conducted this month for the right-leaning issue advocacy group American Action Network and provided to POLITICO.
Democratic voters in every age group, every gender, and every race view socialism favorably, according to the early February telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democratic primary voters fielded by Republican firm OnMessage Inc. and commissioned by AAN, which is tied to the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC dedicated to House Republicans. And among people 45 and under -- a group that has helped power Sanders' primary performances -- the ideology is preferred to capitalism by a margin of 46 percent to 19 percent.