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Superb USA Poll: Less government, regulations, debt.

by In the news Saturday, July 4. 2009

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56% Want government to do less
69% concerned over growth of government
56% concerned over size of budget deficit
79% do not trust government
33% want more regulation of financial system

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  • Max

    Why do these same people, then, vote for losers?

    • Anonymous

      Sometimes they don’t, but ACORN-agent election officials put them in office anyway. Stuart Smalley, for example … thanks to the Left’s notorious “Secretary of State Project”.

  • Wilsonville Wanderer

    wow, 21% trust their government. Who are they?

    • anonymous

      Nuts! (as in Acorns)

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  • eagle eye

    The Heritage Foundation can probably get any poll results they want, the fact is the voters are not doing things their way.

  • JHL

    Firstly, how come the numbers and the dimensions of the graph don’t actually match? All of the top numbers have an inflated length.

    Secondly, following up on these sources, it seems that a few of these numbers are either out of context or just plain skewed:

    1 & 4. (NYT/CBS) “The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector. … But they clearly indicate growing confidence in the government’s ability to manage health care.”

    2. (Wall St Journal/NBC) “A majority of Americans maintain a favorable view of President Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Some 60% said they had either a “very” or “somewhat” favorable view of the president…”

    3. (Washington Post/ABC) “On the deficit, intensity runs against the president, with 35 percent “strongly” disapproving, compared with 22 percent who say they are solidly behind his efforts.”

    5. (Rasmussen) “Americans are closely divided over President Obama’s plan to create a new government agency to regulate what banks, mortgage lenders and credit card companies offer Americans. Thirty-nine percent (39%) support the creation of such an agency, but 44% are opposed to establishing another federal regulatory body. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans said in late April that there is a need for more government oversight of the credit card industry.”

    Which brings up an interesting question:

    Why would you bother to skew the dimensions of the chart if you’re just going to make up numbers anyway?

    (Ok, now call me an idiot moonbat or whatever for actually bothering to check the sources.)

  • Rupert in Springfield

    Look at it this way, the Democrats are entitled to crow a little. They finally got the presidency after getting beaten twice by a guy they said was dumb as a box of hammers. So, gloating is in order. Gloating six months in might be classless, but it is exactly what one could hope for.

    Democrats are in the process of overplaying their hand, as they always do.

    People seem to like BO as a person, but that’s about as far as it goes. I guess they like his wife as well. As far as the liberal agenda? It doesn’t look good:

    Cap and trade? Passed by a pretty slim margin in the House. Conservative Democrats are now furious with Pelosi for forcing them to vote for a bill which might very well die in the Senate.

    Health care? Most consider it DOA if it gets to the Senate.

    The stimulus? A joke, I see way more concern about the runaway spending and not a lot of public works projects good will enthusiasm out there.

    We now have more Americans identifying as conservative than ever before. that makes sense and is in keeping with what one observes. After getting beat twice in a row by a guy who it was claimed was as dumb as a box of hammers, we elected a liberal Senator to the presidency. It took a full court press by the media, an opposition candidate who was hated by his own party, a recession and full denial of BO as anything but a moderate to get him elected.

    That doesn’t exactly speak volumes to a sea change in the political zeitgeist towards liberalism and voters are pretty much confirming that.

    However it is in Americas interest for liberals to think exactly that. Liberalism has it’s successes when it is done in small incremental steps. Large sweeping steps have tended not to work well in recent days. Clinton care and amnesty would be examples of that.

    When even a source like the Washington Post shows sixth months into a presidency and people already being very concerned about spending, that does not bode well for the vast amounts of additional spending liberals would love to have. There is hardly a steamroller of eagerness to turn back the clock in this country any time soon.

  • Bob Clark

    While our country zigs towards increased regulation and taxes, other countries are zagging away from increased government regulation and taxes. This will make the U.S significantly less competitive, and capital dollars for growing the economy will flow out instead of in. The election of Obama brings the U.S back to the malaise of the 1970s with more frequent recession and under performance. Can’t say the electorate had great choices, though. McCain was a RINO.

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