Surveys in Six Swing States and Nationwide Find Over Fifty Policies Supported by Majorities of Both Republicans and Democrats COLLEGE PARK, Md. , Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A series of surveys conducted in battleground states and nationwide asked about 66 Federal policy issues across a wide range of controversial topics, and found that for 55 of them majorities of Republicans and Democrats in every battleground state and nationwide agree on what Federal policy should be.
The survey series, called the Swing Six Issue Surveys , were conducted by the Program for Public Consultation (PPC) at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy over the last five months in Arizona , Georgia , Michigan , Nevada , Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , as well as nationally. Each state sample had approximately 600 adults, while nearly all national samples had approximately 1,200 adults. "While there is intense polarization in the public discourse over who should be elected to the White House and Congress, there is a surprising amount of common ground, in battleground states and nationwide, on what policies the Federal government should or should not pursue.
" commented Steven Kull , director of PPC. Healthcare Costs Bipartisan majorities in the swing states and nationally support a variety of proposals for the Federal government to seek to bring down healthcare costs. They favor capping drug prices to what is charged in other developed countries (swing states 77-81%, Republicans 72-82%, Dem.