POLL OF LIKELY 2016 VOTERS

National poll of 1,500 likely 2016 voters (Republicans, Independents, Democrats) conducted by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive
Change Institute. More details on the poll can be found on the last page, including poll dates, sample sizes, and margin of error.

TOPLINE RESULTS
SUPPORT
SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL NO RESPONSE -OPPOSE

Allow Government to Negotiate Drug Prices 79% 12% + 67

Give Students The Same Low Interest Rates As Big Banks 78% 10% + 68
Universal Pre-Kindergarten 77% 15% + 62
Fair Trade That Protect Workers, the Environment, and Jobs 75% 11% + 64
End Tax Loopholes for Corporations That Ship Jobs Overseas 74% 15% + 59
End Gerrymandering 73% 13% + 60
Let Homeowners Pay Down Mortgage With 401k 72% 14% + 58
Medicare Buy-In For All 71% 13% + 58
Disclose Corporate Spending on Politics/Lobbying 71% 16% + 55
Require NSA To Get Warrants 71% 17% + 54
Infrastructure Jobs Program - $400 Billion / Year 71% 18% + 53
Debt-Free College At All Public Universities (Message A) 71% 19% + 52
Expand Social Security Benefits (Message A) 70% 15% + 55
Expand Social Security Benefits (Message B) 70% 17% + 53
Full Employment Act (Message B) 70% 18% + 52
Green New Deal -- Millions Of Clean-Energy Jobs 70% 20% + 50
Close Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes 70% 21% + 49
Retrain Coal Miners And Oil Workers For Clean Energy Jobs 67% 19% + 48
End Tax Deductions For Wall Street Fines 67% 23% + 44
Full Employment Act (Message A) 66% 19% + 47
Transparency in Trade Negotiations 66% 23% + 43
Eliminate The Electoral College 65% 21% + 44
Full Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers 64% 21% + 43
Close Carried-Interest Tax Loophole 63% 25% + 38
Free Community College 63% 27% + 36
Debt-Free College At All Public Universities (Message B) 62% 24% + 38
Shareholder Approval For Corporate Political Spending 61% 19% + 42
Require Special Prosecutor For Killings By Police 61% 23% + 38
Ensure Net Neutrality 61% 26% + 35
Ban Revolving Door For Corporate Execs In Govt 59% 24% + 35
Tax the Rich - 50% Reagan Rate 59% 25% + 34
Minimum Guaranteed Income 59% 27% + 32
Break Up The Big Banks (Message A) 58% 23% + 35
Public Matching Funds For Small-Dollar Donations (Message A) 57% 23% + 34
Central Site To Pay/Challenge All Debts 56% 22% + 34
Public Option Banking Via Post Offices (Message B) 56% 25% + 31
Comprehensive Voter Empowerment Act 56% 32% + 24
Break Up the Big Banks (Message B) 55% 23% + 32
Financial Transactions Tax (Message B) 55% 24% + 31
Tax the Rich -- Millionaires & Billionaires Tax 54% 31% + 23
Free, High-Quality Public Child Care 53% 33% + 20
Single Payer Healthcare Via Medicare 51% 36% + 15
Financial Transactions Tax (Message A) 50% 29% + 21
Public Funding Of Congressional Elections 49% 26% + 23
Public Option Banking Via Post Offices (Message A) 49% 31% + 18
Restrict Surplus Military Equipment to Police Departments 49% 31% + 18
Glass-Steagall (Message B) 47% 26% + 21
Public Matching Funds For Small-Dollar Donations (Message B) 47% 32% + 15
Tax Rebate For $100 In Small-Dollar Donations 45% 33% + 12
Make Election Day A National Holiday 45% 42% +3
Glass-Steagall (Message A) 44% 28% + 16
Ban For-Profit Prisons 44% 37% +7

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DETAILED POLL RESULTS

JOBS
INFRASTRUCTURE JOBS PROGRAM - $400 BILLION / YEAR
SUPPORT
Invest four hundred billion dollars per year SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL - OPPOSE

in a major new jobs program that would cre- + 53

ate four million jobs by making long-term S O N

investments in rebuilding our transportation D

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infrastructure, expanding Internet access to
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rural areas, and increasing access to clean
renewable energy.

GREEN NEW DEAL -- MILLIONS OF CLEAN-ENERGY JOBS

Enact a Green New Deal to create millions SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

of clean-energy jobs in areas like wind and + 50

solar energy. S O N

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RETRAIN COAL MINERS AND OIL WORKERS FOR CLEAN ENERGY JOBS

Retrain coal miners and oil workers for SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

good-paying clean energy jobs, such as + 48

building a wind and solar energy grid. S O N

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FULL EMPLOYMENT ACT (MESSAGE A)

Enact a Full Employment Act to help Amer- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

ican workers survive big corporations ship- + 52

ping American jobs overseas. This would S O N

guarantee that any American who wants to D

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work gets a job on projects like repairing
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bridges and roads, wiring rural America
with high-speed Internet, and other critical
long-term investments.

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FULL EMPLOYMENT ACT (MESSAGE B)

Enact a Full Employment Act, guaranteeing SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

that any American who wants to work gets + 47

a job on projects like repairing bridges and S O N

roads, wiring rural America with high- D

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speed Internet, and other critical long-term
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investments.

FULL MINIMUM WAGE FOR TIPPED WORKERS

Eliminate the sub-minimum wage that the SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

restaurant industry is allowed to pay tipped + 43

workers - currently set at just two dollars S O N

and thirteen cents per hour - and instead D

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require all employers to directly pay their
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workers at least the regular minimum wage.

FAIR TRADE THAT PROTECT WORKERS, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND JOBS

Replace free trade deals that cost American SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

jobs with fair trade agreements that force + 64

our trade partners to respect American pro- S O N

tections for workers and the environment, D

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which will protect jobs and promote higher
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wages in America.

TRANSPARENCY IN TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Require greater public transparency in the SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

writing of trade agreements to prevent deals + 43

that are written in secret by corporate lobby- S O N

ists and ship American jobs overseas. D

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ECONOMIC SECURITY
EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (MESSAGE A)

Increase Social Security benefits, so that a SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

worker at age seventy-five receives + 55

four-hundred-and-fifty-two dollars more S O N

in benefits per year and at age eighty-five D

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receives eight-hundred-and-seven dollars
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more per year.

EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (MESSAGE B)

Increase Social Security benefits and pay for SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

that increase by having the wealthy pay the + 53

same rate into Social Security as everyone S O N

else. D
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ALLOW GOVERNMENT TO NEGOTIATE DRUG PRICES

Allow the government to negotiate lower SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid + 67

beneficiaries, which could save two-hun- S O N

dred-and-thirty billion dollars per year for D

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taxpayers and seniors.
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MEDICARE BUY-IN FOR ALL

Give all Americans the choice of buying SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

health insurance through Medicare or pri- + 58

vate insurers, which would provide compe- S O N

tition for insurance companies and more D

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options for consumers.
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SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE VIA MEDICARE

Enact a national health plan in which SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

all Americans would get their insurance + 15

through an expanded, universal form of S O N

Medicare. D
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FREE, HIGH-QUALITY PUBLIC CHILD CARE

Provide free, high-quality public child care SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

for all working parents. + 20

S O N

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MINIMUM GUARANTEED INCOME

Close loopholes that allow corporations and SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

millionaires to pay less taxes than ordinary + 32

Americans, and use the money to expand S O N

Social Security to Americans of all ages, so D

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that everyone has a guaranteed minimum
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income.

EDUCATION
FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Provide two years of free community college SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

to American students and workers - saving + 36

9 million people up to 3,800 dollars per year, S O N

so long as they maintain good grades. D

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DEBT-FREE COLLEGE AT ALL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES (MESSAGE A)

Provide federal financial assistance to states SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

to make public colleges and universities + 52

more affordable, so that all students have S O N

access to debt-free college education in D

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America.
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DEBT-FREE COLLEGE AT ALL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES (MESSAGE B)

Provide financial incentives to state colleges SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

and universities to ensure all students have + 38

access to debt-free college education in S O N

America. D
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UNIVERSAL PRE-KINDERGARTEN

Ensure that high-quality pre-Kindergarten SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

programs are available to every child in + 62

America. S ON

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GIVE STUDENTS THE SAME LOW INTEREST RATES AS BIG BANKS

Extend the same low interest rates that the SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

federal government gives big Wall Street + 68

banks to college students who receive gov- S O N

ernment loans for their education. D

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TAXES
TAX THE RICH - 50% REAGAN RATE

Raise the tax rate on personal income above SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

one million dollars a year, which is current- + 34

ly just below forty percent, so that income S O N

above one million dollars is taxed at fifty D

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percent, the same rate it was taxed under
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President Reagan.

TAX THE RICH -- MILLIONAIRES & BILLIONAIRES TAX

Raise the tax rate on personal income above SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

one million dollars a year, which is current- + 23

ly just below forty percent, so that income S O N

above one million dollars is taxed at for- D

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ty-five percent, income above twenty million
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dollars is taxed at forty-seven percent, and
income above one billion dollars is taxed at
forty-nine percent.

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CLOSE CARRIED-INTEREST TAX LOOPHOLE

Close the tax loophole that allows million- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

aire hedge fund managers to pay a tax rate of + 38

just fourteen percent on their massive profits S O N

while working men and women pay much D

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higher rates on their salaries and wages.
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END TAX LOOPHOLES FOR CORPORATIONS THAT SHIP JOBS OVERSEAS

Save billions of dollars by eliminating tax SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

loopholes for large corporations that ship + 59

jobs offshore, and use that money to make S O N

long-term investments in rebuilding our D

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transportation infrastructure, expanding
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Internet access to rural areas, and increasing
access to clean renewable energy.

CLOSE OFFSHORE CORPORATE TAX LOOPHOLES

Close loopholes that allow corporations to SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

hide their U.S. profits overseas and avoid + 49

paying their fair share of taxes. S O N

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WALL STREET & CORPORATIONS
BREAK UP THE BIG BANKS (MESSAGE A)

Break up big banks like Citigroup, which SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

played a big role in the financial crisis and + 35

recently demonstrated they still have too S O N

much power by lobbying for and winning D

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the repeal of a major reform designed to stop
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Wall Street abuse and taxpayer bailouts.

BREAK UP THE BIG BANKS (MESSAGE B)

Break up financial institutions that are SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

deemed too big to fail, even if that means + 32

breaking up some of the biggest power play- S O N

ers on Wall Street. D

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PUBLIC OPTION BANKING VIA POST OFFICES (MESSAGE A)

Create competition for big Wall Street banks SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

by allowing post offices to offer banking + 31

services, creating an incentive for better cus- S O N

tomer service and more socially-responsible D

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banking.
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PUBLIC OPTION BANKING VIA POST OFFICES (MESSAGE B)

Allow post offices to offer basic banking ser- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

vices such as check cashing and bill paying + 18

for everyone. S O N

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FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TAX (MESSAGE A)

Enact a one percent tax on Wall Street SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

transactions, which will largely impact major + 21

investors, in order to reduce the speculative S O N

Wall Street gambling that damaged our D

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economy.
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FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TAX (MESSAGE B)

Enact a one percent tax on speculative Wall SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

Street transactions, which will largely impact + 31

major investors, in order to reduce specula- S O N

tive Wall Street gambling and generate reve- D

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nue for priorities like jobs and education.
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END TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR WALL STREET FINES

End the tax loophole that allows Wall Street SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

banks and other corporations who get + 44

caught breaking the law to deduct the cost of S O N

their fines or penalties from their tax bill. D

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GLASS-STEAGALL (MESSAGE A)

Enact a new Glass-Steagall law that forc- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

es the Wall Street banks that wrecked our + 16

economy to choose between holding peoples S O N

life savings or gambling on high-risk invest- D

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ments, but not being allowed to do both.
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GLASS-STEAGALL (MESSAGE B)

Enact new Wall Street reforms that force the SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

banks that wrecked our economy to choose + 21

between holding peoples life savings or S O N

gambling on high-risk investments, but not D

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being allowed to do both.
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LET HOMEOWNERS PAY DOWN MORTGAGE WITH 401K

Allow homeowners who fall behind in their SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

payments or who are facing disclosure to + 58

withdraw money from their 401k accounts, S O N

tax-free, in order to pay some or all of their D

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mortgage.
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CENTRAL SITE TO PAY/CHALLENGE ALL DEBTS

Create a centralized location where people SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

can find any debt claims against them and + 34

either pay or challenge them in one location. S O N

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ENSURE NET NEUTRALITY

Ensure equal access to the Internet by block- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

ing companies like Comcast and AT from + 35

writing the rules so that they can sell fast S O N

Internet to the rich and slower Internet to D

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everyone else.
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ELECTIONS & MONEY IN POLITICS
PUBLIC MATCHING FUNDS FOR SMALL-DOLLAR DONATIONS (MESSAGE A)

Put more political power in the hands of SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

regular people by creating a public matching + 34

fund for small-dollar donations to congres- S O N

sional campaigns. This would give a one D

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hundred dollar donation from a high school
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teacher the same weight as a lobbyists
seven-hundred dollar contribution.

PUBLIC MATCHING FUNDS FOR SMALL-DOLLAR DONATIONS (MESSAGE B)

Put more political power in the hands of SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

regular people by creating a public matching + 15

fund for small-dollar donations to congres- S O N

sional campaigns. Also, give Americans a tax D

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rebate for the first one hundred dollars in
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small-dollar donations they give to congres-
sional campaigns.

PUBLIC FUNDING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS

Institute public funding of congressional SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

elections, which would cost one billion dol- + 23

lars but could save taxpayers one hundred S O N

billion dollars in waste that comes when big D

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campaign donors get to write our tax laws.
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TAX REBATE FOR $100 IN SMALL-DOLLAR DONATIONS

Put more power in the hands of regular SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

people by giving Americans a tax rebate for + 12

the first one hundred dollars in small-dol- S O N

lar donations they give to congressional D

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campaigns.
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DISCLOSE CORPORATE SPENDING ON POLITICS/LOBBYING

Force corporations to disclose their political SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

donations and lobbying activity, so that con- + 55

sumers know if their dollars are supporting S O N

political activity. D
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SHAREHOLDER APPROVAL FOR CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING

Reduce the influence of corporations in SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

our elections by forcing them to receive + 42

majority approval from shareholders every S O N

year before making political donations or D

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supporting trade associations that lobby or
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make political donations.

BAN REVOLVING DOOR FOR CORPORATE EXECS IN GOVT

Ban government employees from going to SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

work at a corporation they regulated. And + 35

ban corporate executives from taking gov- S O N

ernment jobs overseeing their own industry. D

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END GERRYMANDERING

End the ability of politicians to draw SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

non-competitive districts for themselves + 60

so that more elections are competitive and S O N

more politicians are forced to work hard to D

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represent their constituents.
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ELIMINATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Eliminate the Electoral College so that pres- SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

idents are elected by the national popular + 44

vote and must campaign everywhere for S O N

votes - not just in a few swing states. D

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COMPREHENSIVE VOTER EMPOWERMENT ACT

Enact a comprehensive Voter Empowerment SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

Act that would make Election Day a national + 24

day off, empower the federal government S O N

to strike down state laws that limit peoples D

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right to vote, and automatically register peo-
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ple to vote when they turn eighteen.

MAKE ELECTION DAY A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Make Election Day a national holiday and SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

day off. +3
S O N

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NSA AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

REQUIRE NSA TO GET WARRANTS

Prohibit the government from collecting the SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

phone and Internet records of millions of + 54

ordinary Americans unless a court decides S O N

there is probable cause of criminal action or D

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terrorist activity.
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REQUIRE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR KILLINGS BY POLICE

Require an outside special prosecutor for SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

cases involving killings by police, to elimi- + 38

nate conflicts of interest. S O N

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RESTRICT SURPLUS MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS

Put major restrictions on the Pentagons SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

transfer of surplus military equipment de- + 18

signed for war zones to our local community S O N

police departments. D
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BAN FOR-PROFIT PRISONS

Ban government outsourcing of prisons to SUPPORT OPPOSE NEUTRAL

private companies that run prisons at a profit +7

and are not accountable to the public. S O N

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POLLING INFORMATION

Conducted January 9th 15th, 2015 by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive Change Institute.
Interviewed 1,500 likely 2016 voters nationwide (MOE +/- 2.5%) with every policy question posed to a split sample
of 750 voters (MOE +/- 3.6%) to compare messaging and policy variations. With an oversample, 308 drop-off
Democrats, defined as Democrats or Obama voters who say they did not vote in 2014, were interviewed (MOE +/-
5.6% for full sample, +/- 7.9% for split sample).
More than 25% of interviews conducted via cell phone.
583 (38.9%) of those interviewed identified themselves as Democrats, 382 (25.5%) as Independents, and 507 (33.8%)
as Republicans.
Voters were asked to rate proposals on a scale of zero to ten where zero means they strongly oppose the idea and ten
means strong support for the idea and a desire to see it become law. Zero to four represents opposition for a proposal.
Five is neutral. Six to ten is supportive.
Questions that resulted in one or more non-response are noted as No Response.

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