Turns Out, Common Ground is Common Ground – Trump and Non-Trump Voters Agree

Madison County, Montana (Creative Commons license)

You suspected it might be true, but now there's proof. Article excerpted in it's entirety, access the complete article here: http://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/recreation/2017/01/31/poll-trump-and-non-trump-voters-agree-public-lands/97307654/

"Respondents in western states want land protected, access for recreation, oppose increased fossil fuel development 

Updated to include response from Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.

If bitter political fighting is tearing your Facebook feed apart at the seams, take heart. There’s at least one issue that does more to unite than divide voters in the western United States; public lands.

Polling from seven western states shows Democrats, Republicans and independent voters have similar interests when it comes to federally managed public land. The poll, conducted through the Colorado College State of the Rockies project and led by Democratic and Republican consultants, measured the attitudes of voters in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. And the results showed that, despite the volume of political vitriol on social media, most people who responded want the same thing.

“The overwhelming sentiment voters are expressing is wanting to protect and preserve public lands,” said David Metz, the Democratic pollster on the project.

“It was more striking where we saw agreement than where we saw big differences,” Republican pollster Lori Weigel said."

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