Pollster Stuart Elway said people have consistently favored cuts over new taxes all the way back to the first Elway Poll in 1992. But he says it’s also common for the same group of people to express initial approval for plans that might increase spending. It was a main takeaway from the poll at this time last year as well.
Elway said this apparent dichotomy shouldn’t be an object of ridicule: It exists in part because the poll asks generally about policy topics, but not about specific bills and proposals that may have problems or controversial components. When that layer of nuance takes shape later, he says, people’s opinions
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