COMMON GOOD WATCH. The voters love it, as you’ll see in this survey. One question, though, about this finding: “68% of voters strongly agree that the ‘government should be committed to the common good and put the public�s interest above the privileges of the few.'” Does that seriously mean 32 percent of voters say government should put the privileges of the few above the public’s interest? Where do we find those people? Can they all be sent to live on an island somewhere?

–Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is a senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a former Prospect staff writer, and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. Follow @mattyglesias