Almost every issue of equality now has majority support in public opinion polls, ideas of race and gender are changing, activism and iPhones are exposing the racial violence that has always been there, sexual assault from the campus to the military is no longer hidden, and Trump's very public misogyny has unified women, educated men and inspired activism.
Those candidates will start polling the idea themselves, or look to Democratic messaging projects such as this one, which will probably reiterate for them that voters think it sounds like a great idea.
What is missing all too often is the idea that polling can help cultivate public support by focusing on those big ideas.
But they changed those ideas after polling potential participants.
Crowdsourcing ideas and polling views contributes to policy making.
I remember a meeting where someone got the bright -- and career-undermining -- idea of polling the assembled managing directors on whether they thought the firm's strategy, as just outlined by the chief executive, would succeed; they were to punch in their responses on handheld devices, to be instantly flashed up on a screen in a way that would be hard to ignore.
"I had the idea of polling on every major issue," Gallup explained.
While most progressives believe the nation should have a single-payer health care system, polling shows such an idea is viewed less favorably by the country as a whole.
The only two Obama ideas polled that are opposed by Republicans are an increase of unemployment benefits and tax hikes on those over $250,000.
For example, scholars have very little idea of what polling in the field actually looked like.
While the extreme rightwing parties may not have appreciably increased their support at the polls, their ideas are clearly shaping the political agenda.
