Stan Greenberg, a Prospect board member and longtime pollster, sends along this result of polling conducted online with 2,500 working-class Americans of all races. It shows that a populist message does bring working-class voters back into the Democratic fold, when backed up by actions that can assist them financially. The polling memo is embedded below.
Recent research conducted by Democracy Corps, Equis Labs, HIT Strategies for Democracy Corps, and American Federation of Teachers of Black, Hispanic, AAPI, and white working-class voters shows that Joe Biden and the Democrats can embrace a powerful middle class/blue collar message along with their transformative policy agenda and dramatically change their fortunes. Hearing that full agenda along with the full-throated attack from conservatives allows Democrats to shift their vote margin from three points in the battleground to eight. That is the kind of margin they need to contest the midterms successfully.
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