In our Nevada polling, voters said by a 9-point margin that the government's priority should be to limit covid spread over reopening the economy, and only 36& of NV voters said the state was reopening too slowly
There is no evidence in our poll to suggest most Nevadans are pining to reopen faster. Asked how they felt about the pace of reopening, 3 in 5 said the current pace was about right (46%) or too fast (14%).
Yes, 62% of Rs said it was too slow, but those are already Trump voters.
People have been predicting from the outset that we would soon see a broad voter revolt against public-health restrictions. Six months in, we are still just not seeing that.
And sure, this could still happen. But a lot of these predictions have been framed as wisdom from people who are truly in touch with the country, unlike ivory-tower swells who think Americans will tolerate mask-wearing & staged reopening. So far, those folks have been dead wrong.
I'm not sure what's weird about this. It's not a debate between "too slow" versus "too fast," the way Trump is approaching it. He's trying to pit "too slow" against the way things are currently being done in Nevada.
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