What's in a name? Quite a lot, as a matter of fact.

Ariel Edwards-Levy, reported this for Huffington Post:    An investigative polling study of 1000 Americans showed that who a policy position is attributed to has a lot to do with whether they agree with the statement.

Edwards-Levy writes that "People tend, reasonably, to rely on partisan cues -- if a politician they support is in favor of a bill, they're likely to think it's a good idea, or vice versa.

"Although most Republicans say they strongly disagree with Democrats on health care, Iran and affirmative action, fewer than a quarter of Republicans strongly disagreed when those positions were presented as Trump's.  Democrats, a majority of whom said they strongly agreed with their party on health care, were less supportive when Trump was the one endorsing the policy. . . .  

"Still, associating a particular politician with a certain position wasn't enough for people to abandon their most deeply held convictions. Protecting Social Security, for instance, is an overwhelmingly popular idea, whether it's being proposed by Clinton or by Trump."

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And that doesn't begin to address the problem when pollsters carefully choose the wording of questions designed to get certain answers for partisan purposes.   My conclusion:   Pay attention to who is doing the polling -- and take all polls with a couple of grains of salt -- especially 14 months ahead of the election.

Ralph