Imagine a political system in America where there wasn’t only two real options when you stepped in to the voting booth. How would Americans vote? A new poll has done just that, and the results were quite surprising.
Americans would ditch the Republican and Democratic parties for an “America First” nationalist party and “Middle class first” universal health care party if America was a 5-party system, according to a new survey.
A Republican-style party would come in third while a “Green New Deal” social justice party and a Democrat-style LGBTQ, free trade, “reform capitalism” party would tie for last.
From Echelon Insights (survey of 1,001 national registered voters conducted June 18-22 online):
The survey appeared skewed towards the left and the margin of error is probably at least 5%.
Building on our multi-party analysis from October 2020, we found that the Nationalist and Labor parties would get a quarter of support each. Nationalist support has grown 8 points since October 2020; Conservative support has dropped by 6.
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— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) July 7, 2021
Whereas Acela is a solid description of the current Democratic Party their “conservative” Republican Party is not the greatest stand-in as it says they would “promote traditional family values,” which the GOP has zero interest in today (thanks to GOP megadonor Paul Singer).
If they replaced “promote traditional values” with “promote Caitlyn Jenner” and “put Israel First” their support would probably match that of the Acela (Democrats) and Greens.
Of course, this is just a useful thought experiment as the Democratic and Republican parties are set up the way they are for a reason and the American people only getting the worst part of their respective party’s agenda when they’re in office is by design.
Nonetheless, it demonstrates perfectly how we have a rigged system.
A plurality of GOP+GOP-Leaning voters say they would support a Nationalist Party, while the same percentage of Democrat+Democrat-leaning voters say they would support a Labor Party. pic.twitter.com/Nl9p6AjSh0
— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) July 7, 2021
Support for the Nationalist Party among Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents is up 16 points since October 2020, with 44% saying they’d support the hypothetical party, compared to just 32% who said they’d choose the Conservative Party. pic.twitter.com/o1LMaKIZDr
— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) July 7, 2021
The Nationalist and Conservative Parties together combine for 25% of the Hispanic vote and 16% of the Black vote. Non-college Whites are more supportive of the Nationalist Party, while college-educated whites support Labor the most. pic.twitter.com/QwrwYZRov3
— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) July 7, 2021
Only 20% of Gen Z’ers would support a Center-Right Party, while a plurality would support a Labor Party. pic.twitter.com/jaoTOF4ATs
— Echelon Insights (@EchelonInsights) July 7, 2021
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