Nate Cohn

That's where they were likeliest to say they want to see the party to move to the left.

And when we asked voters whether they'd rather have a Democrat who wanted to lower prices by expanding the housing supply or lower prices by cracking down on corporate monopolies, they said by nearly a three to one margin that they'd rather have the party crack down on corporate monopolies.

Hmm.

So in this particular case, this is an example of Democratic-leaning voters being quite receptive to a more economically populist approach, one that goes hard after billionaires, corporations, you know the list.

And it would represent a real shift toward the left compared to recent Democrats like Kamala Harris.

And I'd also point out that they overwhelmingly oppose Israel.

They're more sympathetic to the Palestinians than the Israelis, which has been true for some time.

They also oppose additional military aid to Israel.

Taking all of this together,

The Democratic base isn't really looking for a candidate who's going to move the party far to the center or far towards the left.

But they would like someone who's fairly populist on economic issues.

And they also really would like to see a candidate who's an opponent of Israel.

And it so happens that when I look at the Democrats who have been doing best lately in Democratic primaries, I see a lot of candidates who fit that billing regardless of where they are on the ideological spectrum.

I think about Zoran Mandani winning in New York.

On the other end of the spectrum, I might think of John Ossoff, the senator from Georgia, who's been earning accolades from across the Democratic Party for a kind of anti-corruption style of populism.

And then maybe right in the middle, I'd put Graham Platner.

Not a socialist, definitely a progressive, definitely running on a populist economic platform.

I think you can see in all of these candidates, Democrats succeeding at least with Democratic voters by adopting a position that looks a lot like what we see in this poll.

Well, I do have to say that I think it's a slightly different question.

The Democrats have an internal problem to solve.