https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-polling-shows-americans-utterly-divided-2023-3
This recent poll shows that 62% of Americans would like to abolish time-shifts, compared to only 21% who want to retain them. However, the majority is almost equally divided between those who support permanent daylight savings time (my preferred view), and those who support permanent standard time.
My question is: has anyone tried to do a survey to determine whether there is a Condorcet winner here (an option that would defeat both of the others in a head to head vote)? If there is no Condorcet winner, this could be a cycling problem of a kind well known to voting theorists, but hard to deal with. But if there is, perhaps we should adopt that option.
Of course I fully recognize that majority public opinion is far from the only relevant factor here. The status quo may have been perpetuated for so long in part because there are also influential special interests involved, even as most ordinary voters are unlikely to prioritize this issue.