Politics · 114th Congress
Post-Orlando Poll Shows Support Jumps For Assault Weapons Ban
More independents favored a ban, too, up 5 percent to 47 percent. Contact Smith at jeremysmith@cqrollcall.com and follow him on Twitter @JeremySilkSmith .
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More independents favored a ban, too, up 5 percent to 47 percent. Contact Smith at jeremysmith@cqrollcall.com and follow him on Twitter @JeremySilkSmith .
> Alex Mooney was criticized in his 2014 race because he previously served in the Maryland legislature and was chairman of that state’s Republican Party yet he narrowly won the West Virginia seat , 47
John McCain, Ariz., had the lowest percentage of votes among them — he won only 47 percent of votes in Arizona’s 2008 Republican primary.
There is broad national support for these measures: A CNN poll found that 62 percent of people favor “a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of semi-automatic assault guns, such as the AK-47.”