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Here are the facts and the sources so you can do your own fact-check and share this good news about our Liberal America with others:

“69% OF AMERICANS SUPPORT LEGAL ABORTION”

Source: Six months before the Supreme Court upended nearly 50 years of protection for a woman’s right to control her own body, CNN (1.21.2022) asked the American public “Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe v. Wade decision?” — and 69% said NO. The Supreme Court then voted to completely overturn Roe v. Wade. Since then, every time abortion has been placed on the ballot, Americans have voted to protect abortion rights — including in red states like Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio. An AP-NORC poll from July 2024 asked if abortion “should be legal or illegal” and 70% of adults stated that abortion “should be legal in all or most cases.” And in August 2024, Marquette University Law School (a Catholic university) released a national poll that found 67% of Americans oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“72% OF US DON’T OWN A GUN”

Source: YouGov (6.04.2024), Pew (7.24.2024), Gallup (10.23.2023) — YouGov found 76% of Americans don’t personally own a gun. Gallup puts that number at 70%, while Pew Research puts it at 68%. Averaging these polls together, we arrive at almost 72% who don’t own a gun.

“90% OF US WANT MORE GUN CONTROL LAWS”

Source: Gallup (June 2022) — 92% are in favor of “Requiring background checks for all gun sales”; 86% are in favor of “Prohibiting people who have been determined to be a danger to themselves or others from purchasing guns.”; Quinnipiac says 89% support requiring background checks for all gun buyers. A FOX News poll in 2023 found that 87% support requiring criminal background checks for ALL gun buyers; 77% support a required 30-day waiting period for ALL gun purchases; 81% support raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21; 80% are in favor of requiring mental health checks for ALL gun purchasers; 80% also want the police to “take guns from those considered a danger to themselves or others.” And 61% of people in the FOX News poll support banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons. 

“72% OF US BELIEVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS REAL”

Source: Yale (12.13.2023) — When asked “Do you think that global warming is happening?” — 72% said YES. Pew (10.25.2023): 71% say that climate change is “causing harm to people in the U.S.” and 63% expect that harm from climate change “will get worse in their lifetime.” 

“71% OF US SUPPORT LABOR UNIONS”

Source: AFL-CIO poll (10.16.2023) — “7 in 10 or 71% approve of labor unions – that includes 91% of Democrats, 69% of independents, and 52% of Republicans; 75% support workers going on strike to fight for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.”; Gallup (8.30.2022): “Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions. Although statistically similar to last year's 68%, it is up from 64% before the pandemic and is the highest Gallup has recorded on this measure since 1965.”

“79% OF US WANT THE RICH TO PAY MORE TAXES”

Source: Navigator Research (2.27.2024) — “Four in five Americans support raising taxes on the rich (79 percent), including 94 percent of Democrats, 78 percent of independents, and 63 percent of Republicans. Nearly two in three Americans who say they voted for Donald Trump in 2020 support raising taxes on the wealthy (63 percent), along with over four in five who say they are unfavorable to both Joe Biden and Donald Trump (85 percent).” This number is not an aberration. A Bloomberg poll of only swing state voters found “69% of registered voters in seven swing states say they favor higher taxes on billionaires, and they support higher income taxes on people who make more than $400,000 a year by the same margin.” Even a FOX News poll found 70% support for raising taxes on millionaires; and a YouGov poll of millionaires found that 6 in 10 millionaires support raising taxes on other millionaires!

“76% OF US WANT A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE”

Source: <a href="https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/5/24/725-isnt-cutting-it-