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- April 20, 2022
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, ABC News, April 20, 2022
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12. That's the percentage-point net support for legalizing marijuana (support for legalization minus opposition to legalization) among Republicans, according to polling from Civiqs. And as FiveThirtyEight contributor Michael Tesler [UCI professor of political science] writes, that's significant because congressional Republicans' opposition to legalization is increasingly out of step with where their own rank-and-file members stand on the issue. Read more from Michael on how the politics of pot have changed in the last 20 years.
For the full story, please visit https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/desantis-takes-culture-wars-florida-note/story?id=84172487.
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