In a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, most Democratic voters said presidential candidates should publicly release any relevant medical information.
After the Vermont independent suffered a heart attack this past autumn, just 28% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters said they
In this regard, the current Democratic front-runner still trails his rivals. Former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg are all seen as physically capable of serving by a majority of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters. But Sanders himself no longer faces negative ratings on the metric.
Registered voters as a whole remain generally skeptical about Sanders’ health, with just 28% saying his physical condition is good enough to serve. However, that’s also a modest improvement from last autumn, when just 19% said he was in adequate physical condition and a majority said he was not.believed she was in adequate physical conditionPartisanship clearly plays a role in voters’ responses to questions like this.
Another is that topics can easily fade or reemerge in salience, depending on events in the news and the extent to which they’re mentioned by the media or opposing campaigns. Presumably, very few voters would say they especiallya nominee who’s had a heart attack. But whether a candidate’s cardiac health becomes a central matter also depends on the degree to which the issue actually comes up.
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