We don’t know yet whether President Donald trump will attract more people to the polls in 2018, but it is clear that he leads them to protest. According to a new survey conducted by the Washington post and the Kaiser family Foundation and released on Friday, one in five Americans protested in the streets and participated in the political rally from the beginning of 2016; of these, 19% have not done it before.
The survey was conducted during the first two months of 2018 to March in our protest of living, which advocates for gun control in March. He found that the more rallygoers Democrats and independents — 40% and 36%, respectively, than the Republicans, who make up 20 percent of the participants. Rallygoers report participation in activities, to Express their views on a wide range of issues, including, but not limited to leverage. Of those who went to the event over the past two years, 19% in support of trump, compared to 32% of those who protested against it.
However, women’s rights, was the question that attracted the most new protesters, with 46 percent rallygoers that he attended the event to support them. It’s not particularly surprising, given the size and scope of the March of the women: in 2017, the demonstration saw 4.2 million people March on the US the day after the inauguration of the trump. In the case in 2018 and later, somewhere between 1.6 million and 2.5 million people were held in America. Thirty-two percent of respondents said that they attended meetings to Express their views on the environment and energy; 30%-due to immigration, 28 percent rally in support of LGBT issues and obamacare.
During meetings people can’t always be trump, they trump reviews. Trump left the Paris agreement on climate change and rolls of various environmental regulations. His administration severely cut down on both legal and illegal immigration, banned transgender people from serving in the army, and made several attacks on Obamacare.
“This confirms that there is resistance, and that a lot of people want to be associated with this,” said Michael Kazin, a history Professor at Georgetown University and editor of dissent, told the Washington post.
Republicans perceive the recent protests as more violent and controversial than the protests of the 1960-ies, although recent demonstrations have been peaceful. Compared with protests in the 1960-ies, where violent clashes between protesters and police were the norm, today’s events are sedate Affairs. Even so, 69 percent of Republicans and 37 percent Democrats said today the participants of the rally “more brutal” than 50 years ago, and 71% of Republicans and 37% Democrats, said that the activists of the “more extreme in their views.”
Now the question is whether this enthusiasm will translate into votes
Washington post family Foundation the Kaiser poll shows that Americans love politics: more than one in four respondents wish they had volunteered for the campaign, joined the boycott, or donated money.
But whether new protesters will go to the polls in the midterm elections in November remains to be seen. Eighty-three percent of the rallygoers said they plan to vote in the elections in 2018, compared with 62% of respondents overall.
There is growing evidence that turnout, especially of Democrats, is on the rise: the recent elections in Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois have demonstrated significant increases in liberal votes to go to the polls. In the RealClearPolitics average of polls in the lead Democrats and Republicans on the General Congress for a vote by 7.5 percent.
“It is unlike any wave I have ever seen in my life, and I believe that it’s not going anywhere,” Jennifer Palmieri, assistant chief of communications for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, told VOX Ella Nielsen this week. “You must not take it for granted, but my experience over the last 18 months is that there is energy and focus and commitment at the local level, which is associated with the care of trump. I don’t see any evidence that this too shall pass.”
Sourse: vox.com
