NBC/WSJ poll shows main concern wealthy individuals and corporations who have too much influence.
American voters say their top concerns about the upcoming presidential election are wealthy individuals and corporations who might have too much influence who over wins, as well as campaigns that spend more time on negative attacks than proposing solutions, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Thirty-three percent of voters say the influence of wealthy individuals and corporations is their top concern, while 25 percent say they're more worried about negative attacks.
Another 16 percent are more concerned that nothing will change no matter who wins, and 12 percent believe that too many wealthy candidates don't understand the economic problems of average Americans.
But only 4 percent of voters say their top concern are dynastic candidates — like Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul — who are from families who have run for the presidency before.
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/poll-voters-pick-top-concerns-about-2016-election-n379131
So the main concern of:
33% - the influence of wealthy individuals and corporations
25% - negative attacks than proposing solutions
16% - nothing will change no matter who wins
12% - too many wealthy candidates don't understand the economic problems of average Americans.
4% - dynastic candidates who are from families who have run for the presidency before
The full poll apparently is not available until tomorrow evening.
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forms of peaceful international engagement. And republicans are their biggest opponents.
... opinions of NAFTA today are no longer bi-partisan, with Democrats far more positive than Republicans about the agreement. Majorities of Democrats believe NAFTA has been good for consumers and for companies (only 41% and 37% of Republicans respectively agree). Half of Democrats say NAFTA has been good for the economy (just 37% of Republicans think that). However, Democrats divide evenly on whether NAFTA has been good for U.S. jobs (half of Republicans say it has not). Overall, Democrats say NAFTA has been good for the country, while Republicans disagree.
And by two to one, Democrats say free trade generally is good for the United States, something Republicans, whose party is known more for favoring free trade, divide on in this poll.
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/ttjqflfkfd/econTabReport.pdf
Our rich are not obscenely rich because of the relatively small amount of trade that the US has (1/2 to 1/3 as much as progressive countries with good income equality) but because we don't tax the rich or regulate their corporations effectively, do not support unions to balance the rich's greed or provide an adequate safety net for the rest of us.
You could eliminate all trade agreements (even bring back Herbert Hoover's tariffs and eliminate all trade) and you won't help our workers or middle class. Hoover tried it. It didn't work. That is why FDR went in a different direction. That is why modern progressive countries go in the same (non-Hoover, FDR-recommended) direction with their trade policies.
