American Democrats have a more positive view of socialism than of capitalism, a Gallup poll has shown. It was the first time Gallup came to such a result since 2010, when it started to ask the question.
Of Democrats and those leaning Democrat, 57 percent held a positive view of socialism, while 47 percent held the same attitude toward capitalism. In 2010, the results were 53 percent positive toward both. In 2016, 58 percent were positive toward socialism versus 56 percent toward capitalism, but that difference was statistically insignificant because the poll has a 3 percent margin of sampling error.
