Any careful reckoning would conclude that polling on massive, multipart legislative packages is beset by problems. …
No voter could possibly know all the policy choices, programs and funding sources contained in these legislative tomes, so they can’t possibly have a real, pre-existing preference for or against them.
Yet, we do learn something meaningful from the fact that voters have been asked about infrastructure in general and specific terms, and in a variety of ways. In every iteration, most people support more spending. CONTINUED
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill