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Is The Stimulus Package Really Losing Support?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Mark Blumenthal investigates the polling. Wording matters. Gallup sees no change.
Not Enough Data Yet
Talking Points Memo —
Mark Blumenthal looks at whether the stimulus plan is losing public support.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/6/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Is Support for the Stimulus Plan Falling? by Mark Blumenthal Is support for the economic stimulus legislation falling? Three polls provide data on point this week: Gallup says support is flat, while CBS News and Rasmussen Reports say support is declining. […] What we do know is that pollsters are getting different results, something that often happens when many respondents lack strongly held views. We also know that most Americans are not closely following stimulus debate.** Less than ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Tom Daschle completely out of the news. In a week or so, nobody will even remember that he was nominated for anything. Ezra has an excellent rundown on the Tom Daschle replacements, and sensibly splits the jobs Daschle would have had into HHS admin and White House Office of Health Reform. It's got a good feel for what's out there, from Rosa DeLauro to John Podesta (who could fill both jobs.) The worry on the left remains Phil Bredesen at HHS. Mark Blumenthal: Wording matters. Some of the recent surveys changed their stimulus survey wording ...
Get Ready For The Ben Nelson-Susan Collins Great Depression
DownWithTyranny! —
... to pay for the termite treatment, which-- at least in California-- is standard. The seller is an attorney and has been acting in bad faith every step of the way. So today-- buoyed by a winning battle I had just had with CitiBank over some outrageous credit card charges (now 100% removed)-- I suggested she find another buyer. Termite inspection was promptly agreed to. The sky is falling on support for the Stimulus meme that has been trumpeted by the media for the last few days is way overblown. President Obama doesn't need Republican votes-- and I doubt he'll get many-- to pass ...
Gallup: 58% disapprove of GOP’s handling of stimulus debate
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... recently found 52 and 51 percent support for the bill, respectively; after tonight’s primetime sermon, expect that to bump up to 55 or more. People are also wondering why Rasmussen’s numbers are so much lower than everyone else’s. Read Mark Blumenthal for a theory on that. Exit question: Why do majorities support the stimulus when ...
CNN: Obama Wildly Popular, GOP Not So Much
Daily Kos —
... That's not bad, considering that this is a very complex bill that sparks mixed emotion in voters. In addition, the wording of each pollster is different, making absolute iron-clad conclusions about the stimulus a bit difficult to ascertain (details at pollster.com on this point.) Nonetheless, a majority of the public supports the bill ( ...
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 (who, after all, has only been in office a few weeks) the benefit of the doubt.
However, the GOP has positioned itself well on the fight. Obama, Reid and Pelosi OWN this bill and if the economy ...
Implications of Polling the "Stimulus"
Sound Politics —
... today giving Obama an edge in the stimulus fight. On one hand, it speaks to the delicate balance the GOP must strike in the first several months of an Obama Administration - picking appropriate battles and re-establishing GOP principles (fiscal discipline) without becoming cartoonish obstructionists. Yet, keep in mind an interesting twist from analysis of recent polls on the stimulus: Rasmussen screens for "likely voters" while Gallup and CBS samples all adults No, surprise then that Rasmussen has tougher numbers for the stimulus package. Furthermore, it speaks to a political ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... former Delegate Brian Moran.
Government Intervention, Not the Lehman Collapse, Caused the Financial Crisis
Many are calling for a 9/11-type commission to investigate the financial crisis. Any such investigation should not rule out government itself as a major culprit. My research shows that government actions and interventions -- not any inherent failure or instability of the private economy -- caused, prolonged and dramatically worsened the crisis.
Is Support for the Stimulus Plan Falling? Rasmussen Vs. Gallup Vs. CBS News Polls
As Nate ...
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Is Support for the Stimulus Plan Falling? Rasmussen Vs. Gallup Vs. CBS News Polls
As Nate Silver observed, Rasmussen consistently shows less support for the stimulus plan than other pollsters. ...
More Polling (Pew) On Stimulus Package
Daily Kos —
... Rasmussen, repeatedly cited by Republicans, is the clear outlier. As to the importance of wording, CBS' poll changed the question from a "775 billion stimulus package" to an "800 billion bill" and Rasmussen asks a very different "economic recovery package proposed by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats", introducing the Congressional Dems to the question in the interval between early and late January. Mark Blumenthal covers that in depth here. ...
Conservatives Deny Reality, Claim Increasingly Popular Recovery Plan Is Losing Support
Think Progress —
... same message, saying that “public support has gradually declined as more and more details of this stimulus bill have come to light.” Later, during an interview with Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Fox’s Trace Gallagher said the American people “support what the president is doing,” but “they don’t support this plan.” Watch it:
Though pollsters found “a modest decline” in support last week, the popularity of a recovery package has risen ...
