Have you noticed that political parties only pay attention to polls that agree with their views? For example, Republicans accept the polls that show that 52% of the people don't like Obamacare (even though in this number are those who don't like it because it doesn't go far enough), but reject polls that show that about 83% of the people,* including a majority of the members of the NRA, are for background checks on gun purchases. Recent polling also shows 66% of those polled favor an increase in the minimum wage to an average of $10.25/hr.* It remains to be seen what the House of Representatives will do about that. President Obama has proposed $10.10/hr.
Note too that Republicans say that it would be better to adopt a piece of medical reform at a time.** I actually agree with this approach, but, when a piece at a time is proposed on gun control, they reject it. The polling numbers on mental health with regard to guns has similar acceptance numbers to background checks, i.e. 79% of the responders voted in favor of increasing government spending on mental health programs for young people as of late April 2013.*
* http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx#2
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/12/most-back-minimum-wage-hike-policies-to-address-the-wealth-gap/
** The first thing I would do is tort reform which Democrats refuse to do. I'm told that this would save "only" 3% of the Medicare expenses, though I suspect that defensive medicine costs much more.
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