The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports released a poll that shows majorities of Democrats endorse some of the most heavy-handed policies against people who have chosen not to get COVID-19 shots.
“The “otherizing” of the unvaxxed by our government and bureaucrats has really settled into the minds of Democrats,” said Jim Lakely, the Vice President of The Heartland Institute. “And these are likely Democratic voters, not people selected to be more radical. It goes to show how radicalized the Democratic party has become. Bernie and the Squad are no longer the outliers. Radical, hateful leftism is now the heart and soul of the party.”
The poll, completed on January 5, surveyed 1,016 likely voters and has a plus/minus error rate of three percentage points and a 95 level of confidence.
Lakely says the response to the poll has been like none other The Heartland Institute, which co-publishes Health Care News, has done.
“I think this poll has hit such a nerve because it verifies, with data, what regular Americans have experienced in their everyday lives over the past two years. It was their left-leaning family members who insisted no visits unless you are vaccinated,” said Lakely. “It was their left-leaning friends who declined invitations to get together for fear of catching COVID. And it was the left-leaning media outlets that pumped up the volume of panic over COVID. The plural of anecdotes is not data, but this polling data proves their personal anecdotes were widely true across the population.”
-Staff reports
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll on COVID-19 Government Restrictions
Federal/State government order to confine unvaccinated individuals to their homes to limit the coronavirus:
59 percent of Democrats strongly/somewhat favor
17 percent of Republicans strongly/somewhat favor
Fine Americans who chose not to get COVID-19 shots
55 percent strongly/somewhat favor
19 percent strongly/somewhat favor
Vaccine Mandates for private businesses with 100 or more employees
78 percent of Democrats strongly/somewhat favor
22 percent of Republicans strongly/somewhat favor
Fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of COVID-19 shots
48 percent of Democrats strongly/somewhat favor
14 percent of Republicans strongly/somewhat favor
Track the unvaccinated to ensure they are quarantined or socially distant
47 percent of Democrats strongly/somewhat favor
13 percent of Republicans strongly/somewhat favor
Remove custody of children from parents who refuse COVID-19 shots
29 percent of Democrats strongly/somewhat favor
7 percent of Republicans strongly/somewhat favor
(Photo, Defeat the Mandates Rally, January 23, 2033, Washington, D.C., courtesy AnneMarie Schieber)
