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Broad Support For Variety of Infrastructure Proposals

Friday, March 19, 2021 By Bryan Bennett
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Three in five Americans support new infrastructure legislation, with bipartisan majorities supporting a range of proposals under consideration for Biden’s bill; More than three in four Americans support a range of proposals for a new infrastructure bill, including job training, funding for highways and bridges, and childcare; A variety of progressive arguments for additional public infrastructure investment resonate more than conservative counterarguments.

Welcome to NAVIGATOR – a project designed to better understand the American public’s views on issues of the day and help advocates, elected officials, and other interested parties understand the language, imagery, and messaging needed to make and win key policy arguments.

This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,001 registered voters conducted March 11-15, 2021. Additional interviews were conducted among 101 Hispanic voters, 105 African American voters, 103 independents without a partisan lean, and 67 Asian American and Pacific Islander voters.

Key takeaways

  • Three in five Americans support new infrastructure legislation, with bipartisan majorities supporting a range of proposals under consideration for Biden’s bill.
  • More than three in four Americans support a range of proposals for a new infrastructure bill, including job training, funding for highways and bridges, and childcare.
  • A variety of progressive arguments for additional public infrastructure investment resonate more than conservative counterarguments.

Majorities Support a New Infrastructure Bill

Three in five support a new infrastructure bill, including a third of Americans who “strongly support.”

  • More than half of independents (54%) and a plurality of Republicans (39%) support a new infrastructure bill.

Bipartisan Majorities Support a Range of Infrastructure Proposals

A range of proposals get majority support from Democrats, independents, and Republicans alike.

  • Nearly three in four independents support each, including 86% who support new job training programs.

There Is Strong Support for Infrastructure Investment, Regardless of How It’s Funded or Bipartisanship

Inclusion of “bipartisan support” or raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations does not change the effectiveness of progressive messaging defending a new infrastructure bill against conservative attacks focused on the national deficit.

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About Navigator

In a world where the news cycle is the length of a tweet, our leaders often lack the real-time public-sentiment analysis to shape the best approaches to talking about the issues that matter the most. Navigator is designed to act as a consistent, flexible, responsive tool to inform policy debates by conducting research and reliable guidance to inform allies, elected leaders, and the press. Navigator is a project led by pollsters from Global Strategy Group and GBAO along with an advisory committee, including: Andrea Purse, progressive strategist; Arkadi Gerney, The Hub Project; Joel Payne, The Hub Project; Christina Reynolds, EMILY’s List; Delvone Michael, Working Families; Felicia Wong, Roosevelt Institute; Mike Podhorzer, AFL-CIO; Jesse Ferguson, progressive strategist; Navin Nayak, Center for American Progress Action Fund; Stephanie Valencia, EquisLabs; and Melanie Newman, Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

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