More Americans see the Democratic Party’s positions on climate change, health care, abortion and immigration as being “in the mainstream” than the Republican Party’s positions on those issues, a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal finds.
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But less than a third — 29 percent — say that the Republican Party’s views on climate change are in the mainstream, while 63 percent say they are “out of the mainstream.”A majority — 56 percent — call the Democratic Party’s positions on health care as in the mainstream, while just 41 percent say the same of the Republican Party’s position on the issue. Fifty-two percent describe the GOP’s health care stance as out of the mainstream.
In 2015, 54 percent of Americans viewed Democratic positions on abortion as being in the mainstream, while 34 percent disagreed — a 20 point difference., that’s down to a 10 point difference, with 51 percent calling Democratic policy positions on abortion in the mainstream and 41 percent saying they are out of the mainstream.
Republicans also lag when it comes to immigration, which President Donald Trump has made into the defining issue of his presidency.
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