Group of Liberal New Yorkers Wants to Legalize Weed | FiveThirtyEight:
Some of it is that I get irked when elites get credit for publicly taking “bold”
positions that other folks came to much sooner. This is particularly
the case when the position is one you’d expect them to have held in
their private lives all along.
But there’s a particularly large gap between elite and popular opinion on marijuana policy. Consider that, according to The Huffington Post,
none of the 50 U.S. governors or the 100 U.S. senators had endorsed
fully legal recreational marijuana as of this April — even though some
of them are very liberal on other issues, and even though an increasing
number of them represent states where most voters support legalizing
pot.