The NPR/PBS/Marist Poll is available here. The poll asked respondents whether a list of items were a good idea or a bad idea. On the questions most relevant to the topic of this blog, abolishing the death penalty was considered a bad idea by 36 to 58, and decriminalizing border crossings also got the thumbs down 27-66. Legalizing marijuana nationwide was approved 63-32.
Crosstabs on the death penalty question show little division by race or age. Marist only breaks the race demographic into "white" and "non-white," and the responses are 37-57 and 35-59, respectively, within the poll's margin of error. The over/under 45 age brackets are similarly not significantly different.
A question that is off-topic but interesting for the effect of question wording on poll results is this: "A Green New Deal to address climate change by investing government money in green jobs and energy efficient infrastructure." Worded that way, the proposal got a sweeping 63-32 endorsement. Had the wording stressed the impact on the economy and Americans' standard of living as predicted by its critics, it doubtless would have received far less approval.
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