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Support for Democratic Stimulus at 38% and Falling Fast
Politics Daily —
... And to think that everyone was so concerned about the GOP's electoral prospects after this vote. Well good news! Your concern for the GOP can be eased, because apparently they know something that the MSM and intelligentsia didn't. That Americans wouldn't like this bill the more they found out about it, from Gallup today: ...
"Many Want Major Changes"
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Some Gallup findings on the stimulus plan: "Americans have fairly low expectations for the plan's ability to turn around the economy. Just 17% say the plan would make the economy a lot better, while another 47% say it would make the economy a little better. Seventeen percent (including more than a third of Republicans) go so far as to say the plan would make the economy worse." "only 10% of Americans say the economy will get better this year as a result of Obama's stimulus plan." "Only 44% of Americans say the plan will make their families' situations at least a little ...
Gallup: Stimulus bill losing support
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... and Harry Reid counted on a significant honeymoon period after the inauguration to ensure passage of their bloated Generational Theft Act, or as they call it, the “stimulus” package. After forcing the bill through the House without allowing any Republican input on its makeup, the bill has landed in a more hostile Senate, where even Democrats wonder aloud how many votes it will get in its present form. They seem to have their fingers on the pulse of America, because according to the latest Gallup poll , the honeymoon has already ended: A strong majority of Americans (75%) ...
Poll Watch: 37 Per Cent of Americans Say Major Changes Needed for Obama Economic Stimulus Bill
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... This poll will certainly not help the passage of S. 1 as it is now written - all 736 pages of it.
Flap wonders why President Obama who is clamouring for quick passage of an economic stimulus bill cannot demand a “CLEAN BILL” from Democrat Congressional leaders?
How about stripping out the pork-barrel spending, adding a payroll tax cut and immediately jump start the job market with business tax cuts?
Sounds too simple, doesn’t it? ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
... opening.
Shlaes: Stop telling Obama to emulate FDR on economics.
Sarah Palin vs. Ashley Judd. Give up now, Ashley.
"Everyone look at the person sitting on your left. Now look at the person sitting on your right. None of you have my e-mail address."
One tax cheat too many for the NYT.
Uh-oh: 58 percent think most bipartisan Congress evah is governing in a partisan manner.
Cold Turkey.
Keep talking, Nancy.
Is The White House Losing The Stim Spin Wars?
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Republicans may not be winning the stimulus spin wars -- something's going to get passed eventually -- but they're changing the way the White House will fight future battles. The White House was looking forward to today's new Gallup poll, hoping that Gallup would focus on the more than 70% of the country in favor of passing a stimulus package. But Gallup broke that category down: 38% want the bill as conceived of by Obama and the Democrats, and just as many want the bill passed with "major changes." ...
Progressive Breakfast: Light Up The Phones
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... Watch for conservatives to crow about this new Gallup poll. "A strong majority of Americans (75%) want Congress to pass some version of President Obama's economic stimulus plan, but this group is split down the middle on whether it should be passed as is or with major changes." ...
Poll: Stimulus Supported Amid Growing Partisanship And Desire For Changes
The Moderate Voice —
... A new Gallup poll finds that President Barack Obama’s stimulus package enjoys strong support — but Americans are rapidly returning to their traditional (and predictable) partisan positions and want the plan to be changed…bigtime. ...
It's the Stupid, Stupid
Talking Points Memo —
... The good news for the country and President Obama is that Obama remains extremely popular, the Stimulus Bill is pretty popular and the Democrats have big majorities in both houses of Congress. So there's little doubt his bill will pass Congress in something like its current form. ...
Gallup On The Stimulus
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Americans are - surprise! - divided. But what they don't want is a total overhaul of the American economy and society in one huge, unmanageable bill passed too quickly for real scrutiny. The Senate bill, according to the CBO, spends 78 percent of its booty in the next two years. I'm not an economist, but it seems to me that ridding the bill of as much of that extra 21 percent as possible makes sense. Focusing it on counter-cyclical spending rather than long-term social projects should be the direction of the end-result. And Obama needs to seize the initiative on this sooner ...
Conservatives Still Peddling Misleading CBO ‘Analysis’ Of Economic Recovery Bill
Think Progress —
... Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation show that more than five-sixths (85 percent) of the effects of the House bill, and 94 percent of the effects of the Senate bill, would occur during the 2009 - 2011 period — when the CBO says the nation’s economic output will be far below its potential and fiscal stimulus thus would be beneficial.
The simple fact is that conservatives appear more interested in manipulating the facts than siding with the American people and passing a recovery bill. ...
Only 10 Percent of Americans Think Stimulus Will Improve Economy This Year, Poll Shows
CNSNews.com Headlines —
(CNSNews.com) Most Americans want Congress to approve an economic stimulus package, but they are split on whether the measure currently under consideration should be passed as is or undergo major changes, according to a new poll . And which category Americans fall under depends mostly on their political affiliation, Gallup found. A majority of Democrats say the plan is okay the way it is, more than four out of 10 Republicans say the bill should be passed only after major changes have been made, and 35 percent of Republicans want the plan rejected altogether. The poll shows ...
Gallup, Too: 38% Say "Pass It, 37% Say Pass It But With "Major Changes," 17% Say Reject It Altogether"
Ace of Spades HQ —
Gallup, Too: 38% Say "Pass It, 37% Say Pass It But With "Major Changes," 17% Say Reject It Altogether" Gallup spins its results a bit by adding together the first and second groups to say that 76% want the spendulus in some form. Um... "Major changes," Gallup. Major changes. It doesn't occur to them to add together groups two and three and report that 54% of the public doesn't want the spendulus passed at all in a form even resembling its current one. Remember the left enjoyed calling Bush's last remaining supporters the "225 dead-enders"? Yeah. Well, Obama starts with ...
Hey Congress: When It Comes to the Stimulus, Please Listen to Your Constituents!
Hit & Run —
... . There's a new Gallup Poll floating around too that finds only 38 percent of Americans want the stimulus plan passed as currently conceived. ...
CBS Poll Claims Obama More Bipartisan Than Republicans
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... that placed public support at only 37 percent and a Gallup poll that found only 38 percent of Americans support the bill in its current form. ...
In Declining Approval Ratings, Lessons for Obama
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... AVERAGE 64.3 27.7Now, it could be that this decline is a result of something other than the stimulus debate: the Daschle debacle, for instance. But my impression is that those stories have had little resonance outside of the Beltway, whereas the public has been following the stimulus debate rather closely. ...
Obama: 119,000,000 Americans unpatriotic.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... that Obama’s unpatriotic list would be somewhere around 129 million; Gallup has it at 51 million outright traitors, and 111 million of doubtful loyalties. And that’s just this week; how many traitors will there be the next? ...
Gallup: President Obama Has Upper Hand in Stimulus Debate
Political Punch —
... and many Americans want many changes to the bill -- the President has the upper hand in the debate. Sixty-seven percent of the American people approve of how President Obama's handling his efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, as opposed to 48% for Democrats in Congress and 31% for congressional Republicans. Congressional Republicans actually have a staggeringly high 58% DISapproval rating for how they're handling the stimulus debate, compared to 42% for Hill Democrats and only 25% for President Obama. Gallup says that 51% of those polled believe that passing the ...
CBS’s Reid: Obama Using ‘Pressure of Popularity’ to Pass ‘Stimulus’
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... In later coverage, just prior to the presidential press conference, Reid again cited the Gallup poll numbers. However, recent Gallup poll results showed that only 38 percent of Americans supported the actual bill in its current form, with 37 percent wanting major changes, 17 percent rejecting it, and 8 percent having no opinion. ...
