I've read that poll. It was put together by Represent Us, a left/liberal advocacy group who clearly favors the legislation and wanted to get a result that inflated its popularity among Manchin's voters.A_B wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:27 amFrom the article: "Skeptical members of Manchin's party have questioned the reasons for his opposition, especially after after a recent poll found that a majority of West Virginia voters support changing the filibuster rules and that 79% of the state's voters — including a large majority of Republicans — support the For the People Act."
In the second paragraph. You whiffed on this one, Steve in your rush to paint with a broad brush.
The poll starts by listing the most generally popular parts of the bill and asks whether people favor those provisions. They all get 75 percent favorability, except for one - only 51 percent favor requiring states to use paper ballots. Then it presents three supposed "goals" of the legislation, again all worded very favorably (like "make sure elections are fair and honest" and "crack down on corruption" and "reduce the influence of big money and lobbyists").
Then it asks "from what you have heard about the For the People Act so far" (i.e., how we just described it), do you think your senators should vote yes.
This is known as "priming" and is known to have a big effect on poll results. https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/ ... t-on-bias/
According to that poll, the person whom WV voters trust the most to provide them with information about the FTPA is Donald Trump. The group placing second highest in that poll is "veterans and members of the military in West Virginia." And only 55 percent even know what the filibuster is.
West Virginia voters are very, very conservative. (Only 17 percent identified as liberal or somewhat liberal, versus 49 percent conservative or somewhat conservative.) They want the Republican party to have power.
Edit: Here is that poll: