Poll: GOP Voters Back Social 'Truce'
Wall Street Journal reports:
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll appears to vindicate Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's repeated insistence that the country needs a “truce” on fights over social issues while it grapples with its mounting economic challenges.
Nearly two thirds of Republican primary voters said they would be “more likely” to vote for a GOP primary candidate who says the party should focus more on the economy and the deficit and less on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion. Only 8% said they would be less likely to vote for such a candidate. The rest said they were unsure.
The call to focus on economic over social concerns was particularly appealing to suburban women, a key swing voting bloc, and to white men overall.
Many Republicans have dinged Mr. Daniels since he called for “a truce” on the social issues in an interview with the National Journal last year. While mulling a potential run for the 2012 GOP nomination, the Indiana governor has continued to double down on the same theme, most recently in a prominent speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference last month.
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