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Gallup’s new poll on socialism is full of bad news

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Carl Beijer
May 27, 2019
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A few months ago, Gallup released some polling that prompted a surge of sensational headlines: in NY Mag, one typical article asked “Are Democratic Voters Abandoning Capitalism for Socialism?” The answer, it turns out, was no: support for capitalism cratered by nine points in that poll, but support for socialism dropped too (by a single point). But the …

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