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Stimulusmania: Support for bill dropped 12 points in January, says new CBS poll
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... No wonder The One’s in such a hurry to ram it through: The longer this thing rots, the more people end up running from the smell. A bare majority still support it, CBS notes — contra ...
Harry Hangs It Up For the Night; Stimulus Vote Postponed Until Tomorrow
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Momentum continues to favor the Republicans' side of the argument and make red-state Democrats nervous, as a new CBS poll shows that 81 percent of the American public believes the bill should be a bipartisan effort, and only 13 percent believe it's okay to pass it with only Democratic support. ...
Someone find out what Lindsey Graham had to drink today.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Anyway, Reid just called it for the night, so we’ll get to enjoy this train wreck in action for at least another morning. By the way: the people who will be telling you that this new CBS poll still shows a bare majority in favor of the debt bill are probably not going to mention how that number reflects a 12 point drop, so be sure to interrupt them when they try. ...
Democrats Losing Support on "Stimulus" ...Want to Push Through Legislation Today
Gateway Pundit —
Harry Reid is rushing to pass the $1,000,000,000,000 "stimulus" package today. The reason? --Because Reid is losing support daily on the trillion dollar Generational Theft Act. Eighty-one percent of Americans say the stimulus bill should be a bipartisan effort. Just 13 percent think it is okay for a bill to be passed with only the backing of the Democratic majority. Americans are receptive to Republicans' push to increase the proportion of tax cuts in the stimulus ...
Big Package Update
Shakesville —
Krugman: On the Edge: "A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery. Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans spouting all the old clichés about wasteful government spending and the wonders of tax cuts." Support For Stimulus Falls: "Slightly more than half the country approves of President Obama's $800 billion-plus stimulus package, a new CBS News poll finds. But support for the bill has fallen 12 points since January, and nearly half of those surveyed do not believe it will shorten the ...
Governors Appeal for Passage of Stimulus
The Caucus —
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — On the heels of more dismal job-loss figures , governors from several states hard hit by the economic downturn appealed for the Senate to retain provisions in the economic stimulus package that would give them flexibility to shore up shrinking funds for services. At a briefing with House Democratic leaders at their annual issues retreat here, Gov. Ted Strickland said his state of Ohio, like many others, “is suffering deeply in this recession.” The Buckeye State had already been reeling from nearly a decade’s worth of job losses, what with the shrinkage of manufacturing jobs and its unemployment rate had already exceeded the nationwide figure of 7.6 percent ...
Pelosi: Screw Barack’s ‘Bi-Partisanship’ AND The GOP
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Once again Nancy Pelois has told Barack Obama that he can take his desire for a post-partisan Washington and shove it. Pelosi has left little doubt that she doesn’t give a flying fig about the bi-partisan method of governing to which Obama continually pays lip-service.
So, will President Obama take these slaps from Pelosi lying down or will he stand up for what he keeps claiming he is truly interested in? Will this president allow the Speaker of the House to drive his agenda without his input?
Thus far, it seems that he will. It is starting to become glaringly obvious that Barack Obama isn’t taking any part in the actual process. He just gives good ...
The Reality of Public Philanthropy
Maggie's Farm —
From Bruce Kesler -
Easier than figuring out what women really want is what Americans really want from their government: a free ride. Whenever lofty goals are polled, majorities speak in favor. Whenever asked whether they are willing to pay for the goals themselves or personally participate in furthering those goals, majorities say no.
A recent poll of attitudes toward charities shows 70% expressing deep caring for the environment, relieving poverty and improving schools. But, less than 20% have personally done anything to aid these causes in the past year, and on most ...
Pelosi: Screw Barack’s ‘Bi-Partisanship’ AND The GOP
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston [image] Once again Nancy Pelois has told Barack Obama that he can take his desire for a post-partisan Washington and shove it . Pelosi has left little doubt that she doesn’t give a flying fig about the bi-partisan method of governing to which Obama continually pays lip-service. So, will President Obama take these slaps from Pelosi lying down or will he stand up for what he keeps claiming he is truly interested in? Will this president allow the Speaker of the House to drive his agenda without his input? Thus far, it seems that he will. It is starting to become glaringly obvious that Barack Obama isn’t taking any part in the actual process. He just gives good ...
Is Obama Having HIS Way Over Economic Stimulus Fight?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
Well, it certainly looks that way in this Gallup Poll, nothwithstanding the Rasmussen and CBS News polls that say otherwise. Mark Blumenthal over at Pollster has an explanation of the poll disparities.
Flap agrees with Allahpundit that the American public wants to see the government DO SOMETHING and will give President Obama ...
More Polling (Pew) On Stimulus Package
Daily Kos —
It's an interesting and important question to follow: how does the public react to the stimulus package and discussion? Actually, despite polling, it's hard to know, and therein is a lesson about "issues" polling. Pollster.com has a wonderful series of articles about important aspects of polling. Wording can affect the response. Introducing an issue the poll recipient isn't aware of or educated about can change the response. And, in addition to that, asking someone whether we should do something they won't like (like spend money), but needs to be done, will change the response. To briefly summarize, here are some recent polls on the stimulus, some of which were ...
What's Not to Understand?
Hoffmania! —
Three weeks in. Obama wins. Frank Rich noticed. It's time the media and many of us did. AM I crazy, or wasn’t the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days
ago? Obama had “all but lost control of the agenda in Washington,” declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress. “Obama Losing Stimulus Message ...
