Best sentence I’ve read all week, check it out: A. Serwer of TAPPED takes mild exception to a recently-released poll touted by the ACLU as showing specific support for the Paycheck Fairness Act. Serwer says that while the questions in the poll probably weren’t specific enough to show support for one particular piece of legislation. Which is fine because he says what it does show is even cooler.
What the poll does show is that Americans, broadly speaking, think the freedom of getting paid for your work regardless of your gender is more important than the freedom to pay people less money for the same work because of their gender.
That’s a great sentence! If you follow the link to his post the embedded graphic shows a bit over 60% of Republicans answered “strongly support!” Nearly 80% of Republican answers indicated some kind of support. Of course the 20% of Republicans who didn’t answer in support are members of the hard core that’s been dominating in primaries lately. So if they win big in November (and that’s possible but not too likely) they may be able to block progress for a few more years. But Serwer’s point stands.
