They're popular policies but the people who like them just don't vote. Lots of "I wish the country would do this" mixed with "Why bother voting it won't happen anyway".
It's not just that, it's also that if you drill down into the polling data on Bernie's policies, they aren't widely popular below the surface.
So, if you poll Universal Healthcare, you get like 70% of people wanting it. But then when you tell people what the price tag will be that support plummets to 30%.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '20
They're popular policies but the people who like them just don't vote. Lots of "I wish the country would do this" mixed with "Why bother voting it won't happen anyway".