My organization conducts a quarterly poll of registered voters in Minnesota, the results of which are published in our magazine. The polling is done by Meeting Street Insights. Our pollster was in the field last week, and the results will be published in the January issue of Thinking Minnesota. We asked questions that were intended to help explain why people voted the way they did in this year’s presidential election.
I’m going to leak just one finding from our poll, which I thought was remarkable. We asked whether respondents approved or disapproved of a series of Trump initiatives, one of which was the Department of Government Efficiency (“an Elon Musk plan for government reform that would create a government efficiency commission that would audit federal agencies and eliminate wasteful spending”).
The result? An astonishing 96% approve of DOGE; only 4% disapprove. I would have said that you couldn’t get a 96% consensus on anything in a poll. If you asked whether the Sun rises in the East, you wouldn’t get 96%.
This shows, I think, that while the latest craziness from the Left gets most of the headlines (voters hate sex change operations on minors, too), traditional concerns like wasteful government spending are still potent. Other polling we have done shows that voters believe–correctly–that government wastes an enormous amount of money. So let’s hope that Musk and Ramaswamy go big, and that Trump and the GOP Congress have the courage to make deep cuts in the federal budget.
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