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42% Say Climate Change Bill Will Hurt The Economy
Americans have mixed feelings about the historic climate change bill that passed the House on Friday, but 42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the ...
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online.wsj.com — Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming.... When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this ... (more) Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change
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Krugman's Traitors
Weekly Standard Blog — A new poll from Rasmussen on cap and trade: As for the bill itself, 37% of all Americans at least somewhat favor it, while 41% are at least somewhat opposed to it. Twenty-two percent (22%) are not sure what to make of it. But there’s more intensity on the “no” side: Only 12% strongly favor the measure, but more than twice as many (25%) strongly oppose it. That's at least 41 percent of Americans (and probably more if that 22 percent of undecideds had any idea what cap and trade is) who are engaged in "treason ...

42 to 19
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... That’s percentage of people who think the Marxman-Wacky bill will hurt the economy rather than help it. A new Rasmussen poll shows a two to one disparity between the two groups: Americans have mixed feelings about the historic climate change bill that passed the House on Friday, but 42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the economy. Fifteen percent (15%) say it will have no impact, and 24% are not sure. A majority of both Republicans ...

The Perfect Storm of Cap and Trade.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Via Rasmussen, we see that a plurality of the population doesn’t like this bill (41%) and doesn’t think that it’ll help the economy (42%).  That’s a lot of ...

He Thinks You're Stupid...
Power Line — ... and elsewhere. But maybe Americans aren't so dumb after all. Scott Rasmussen finds that by better than a two to one margin (42-19 percent), Americans think the Waxman-Markey bill will hurt rather than help the economy. So much for Obama's absurd claim that cap-and-trade is a "jobs bill." ...

Hope And Change Back?
Shot in the Dark — Rasmussen sez  cap and trade not exactly lighting up the polls: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the economy. Fifteen percent (15%) say it will have no impact, and 24% are not sure.A majority of both Republicans (56%) and adults not affiliated with either major political party (52%) think the bill will hurt the economy. Among Democrats, however, 30% say it will help the economy, 23% that it will hurt and 21% say it will have no impact. ...

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