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CNN poll: 61% now “dead set” against auto bailout
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... You should have flown commercial , boys. In early November, polls indicated that nearly half the public supported federal assistance to the big automakers when this issue first came before Congress. But evidence in surveys from other organizations suggests that the poor performance by executives from GM, Ford and Chrysler at congressional hearings, and the admission that they had taken private jets to get there, resulted in a steep drop in support for government assistance to automakers… Opposition to the bailout of the auto industry is widespread across the country, even ...
CNN Poll: Six In 10 Oppose Federal Automakers Bailout
The Moderate Voice —
_3DCE1BF7_4F78_4369_A6FA_5E2FC5A5218B_.gif When President Elect Barack Obama said a few weeks ago that the automakers had not made their case very well for getting a big, fat federal bailout, it turns out he was speaking for a growing number of Americans: a new poll finds that a politically-poisonous six in 10 now oppose the federal government bailing out the big three auto makers: A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies. Sixty-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. ...
A Cautious Obama Picking His Fights Carefully
Pajamas Media —
... that a viable plan to revive the industry and protect the taxpayers is essential. Moreover, he isn’t personally on the phone twisting arms and cajoling his former Democratic allies in the Senate. It might have something to do with bailout fatigue and the latest poll showing the public is fed up with the car makers. (When the Big Three can’t get the public in ...
