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Every other Monday, Aaron is joined at 8:30 a.m. by Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, for a longstanding regular segment called “What We’re Thinking,” looking at recent survey numbers and discussing what they tell us about American public opinion – election-related and otherwise.
This week, Tom discusses a new PPP survey that shows Joe Biden reclaiming a narrow lead over Donald Trump. Nine percent of voters are still undecided – mostly left-leaning, often younger voters whose views are closer to Biden’s but who don’t like either candidate. (Contrary to popular belief, though, it’s not true that both candidates are universally disliked; in fact only 20 percent of Americans say they disapprove of both Biden and Trump.) The new survey also finds that Social Security and Medicare may be a critical issue: voters become much more likely to support Biden when his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy is contrasted with Trump’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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