New polling on Green Infrastructure:
Key Findings
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57 percent of voters support the American Jobs Plan without any additional information about the bill
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Support for the American Jobs Plan jumps to 65 percent after giving voters a description of the bill that emphasizes the proposal’s key climate and clean energy provisions
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Bipartisan majorities of voters think nearly all of the key climate and clean energy investments in the American Jobs Plan will have a positive impact on their communities
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Two-thirds of voters think it is important that investments to create clean energy jobs are kept in the American Jobs Plan as lawmakers in Congress negotiate the proposal
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Two-thirds of Democrats and a plurality of Independents think Congress should pass the American Jobs Plan before departing for the August recess
BY MARCELA MULHOLLAND AND DANIELLE DEISEROTH
These elected officials and groups understand that the climate crisis is the most pressing infrastructure challenge our nation faces. As such, an infrastructure package that doesn’t center climate, isn’t much of an infrastructure package at all. But even if you ignore this (which you shouldn’t) and look strictly at the politics and polling, it’s clear that passing a climate-focused infrastructure package is the only electorally viable path forward for Democrats. Democrats are heading into 2022 with history stacked against them — over the last decade the party in power has only come out on top in the midterms two times — so they should be firing on all cylinders to make the case to voters that Democrats deliver results that will positively and directly impact voters’ lives.
From June 15 to 17, 2021, Data for Progress conducted a survey of 1,257 likely voters nationally using web panel respondents.