Interesting stuff. An excerpt:
Slightly less than half the Democrats gave a 1 to 3 response to the question. One in five Democrats gave the most extreme response favoring a nanny state. Three out of four Democrats gave a median response or higher.
ANES also asked about whether spending should be increased in various ways. Here are the percentages of Democratic respondents who favored increased spending on:
Aid to the poor 73.9% Social Security 72.1% Public Schools 87.3% Science and Technology 57.3% Dealing with Crime 68.4% Child care 72.4% Border security, illegal immigration 57.3% In a few cases, a majority of Democrats did not favor increased spending. Here are the percentages of Democrats who favored increased spending on:
Highways 35.9% Welfare programs 28.7% War on terrorism 38.3% Foreign aid 14.1% However, on each of these issues, the percentage of Democrats who favored either increasing spending or keeping it the same was
Highways 90% Welfare programs 75% War on terrorism 71.7% Foreign Aid 60.1% No Democratic majority could be found that favored decreasing spending on any issue broached by the ANES survey.






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