Pundits have asserted that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive agenda threatens the Democratic Party’s chances of making broad gains in the 2020 election and beyond. Unsourced polling leaked to Axios suggested that white, likely voters without college degrees view Ocasio-Cortez overwhelmingly unfavorably—a population Axios deemed crucial to the Democrats’ future as the voters who will be “needed by Democrats in swing House districts.” As this narrative unfolded in the media in recent weeks, Data for Progress and YouGov Blue began fielding a survey that included, among other things, a battery of favorability items measuring how voters felt toward several American political figures and organizations. CONT. – pdf
Sean McElwee, Emily Bello-Pardo, John Ray & Mark White