Wall Street Journal: Poll: Voters want economic growth

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The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman reports:

Now here’s something you don’t see every day. A prominent Democratic polling firm has found that voters don’t view reducing income inequality as a top priority. Instead, they want economic growth.

Our columnist William Galston has the story: “Surveys of 3,000 Americans conducted between January and March of 2014 by the Global Strategy Group found that fully 78% thought that it was important for Congress to promote an agenda of economic growth that would benefit all Americans. Support for policies that help the middle class and bolster equal opportunity for everyone were also highly rated. Strategies to spread wealth more evenly and reduce income inequality received the least support; 53% believe that fostering economic growth is ‘extremely important,’ compared with only 30% who take that view about narrowing income inequality.”

Again, the surveys were conducted not by Steve Forbes but by Global Strategy Group, whose distinguished clients have included Eliot Spitzer and whose current executive team includes former Obama aide Bill Burton. (MORE AT THE LINK – SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED)