What Went Down In The Fourth Democratic Debate
Right, Nate. Like on impeachment, there’s going to be a lot of consensus tonight on the idea that gun control is good.
Perhaps an Unpopular Opinion, but I think there’s been more focus in these debates than there needs to be on gun control, when other than maybe Beto, the candidates’ positions aren’t all that different from one another, and in any event aren’t terribly complicated to explain. Like, ask a question about China/Daryl Morey/NBA/Hong Kong instead.
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 5.7 percent of people said gun policy was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)
Who voters think is best on gun policy
Among the 174 respondents who said gun policy was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 21.7% | |
| Beto O’Rourke | 18.7 | |
| Bernie Sanders | 10.6 | |
| Someone else | 9.5 | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 8.5 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 6.9 | |
| Kamala Harris | 6.4 | |
| Cory Booker | 4.4 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 1.8 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 1.5 | |
| Julián Castro | 1.3 | |
| Andrew Yang | 0.9 | |
| Tom Steyer | 0.4 |