{"id":53187,"date":"2006-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2006\/08\/30\/democrats-face-ideological-split-over-wal-mart\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:49:06","slug":"democrats-face-ideological-split-over-wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2006\/08\/30\/democrats-face-ideological-split-over-wal-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Face Ideological Split Over Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several leading Democrats have launched election-year attacks on Wal-Mart, criticizing the company for providing what they say are inadequate wages and employee health care benefits. Yet the party&#8217;s rank-and-file is deeply divided in opinions about Wal-Mart, with liberal Democrats taking a much more negative view of the company than do moderate and conservative Democrats.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most liberal Democrats (53%) have an unfavorable opinion of Wal-Mart, according to a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in December. By contrast, 70% of conservative and moderate Democrats &#8211; and solid majorities in other political categories &#8211; have positive impressions of the world&#8217;s largest company.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complaint that Wal-Mart does too little for its employees may resonate with liberal Democrats. A majority of liberals (53%) say that Wal-Mart is a bad place to work. But this opinion is not shared nearly as widely among conservative and moderate Democrats; only about a third (35%) say that Wal-Mart is a bad place to work, while 57% view it as a good place to work.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2006\/08\/30\/democrats-face-ideological-split-over-walmart\/\">Read the full analysis at pewresearch.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several leading Democrats have launched election-year attacks on Wal-Mart, criticizing the company for providing what they say are inadequate wages and employee health care benefits. Yet the party&#8217;s rank-and-file is deeply divided in opinions about Wal-Mart, with liberal Democrats taking a much more negative view of the company than do moderate and conservative Democrats. 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