How Quickly They Forget: Support for Offshore Drilling Increases in Key States
The news cycles can be measured in milliseconds these days, therefore this result is not surprising: In Louisiana, despite being at the heart of the spill, voters never showed much ambivalence about...
View ArticlePublic Opinion Matters When Helping Homeowners, But Not When Helping Banks?
I wanted to address this complaint, a feature of discussions about the housing crisis from the very beginning, actually the source of Rick Santelli’s proto-tea party rant. The only other thing I can...
View ArticlePoll: Country Doesn’t Believe Government Can Do Anything
by infomatique What we learn from this polling is that when you spend almost three years with unemployment at an elevated level, the public tends to get the message that government isn’t able to help...
View ArticleObama Jobs Bill Faces Hurdles with Public, Fellow Democrats
The political theory behind the American Jobs Act is that the President would offer a popular series of job creation measures, get his party and then the public behind them, and pressure Republicans to...
View ArticlePublic Wants Deeper Cuts to Defense Budget Than Even the Trigger
Lost in yesterday’s House vote to replace the defense trigger cuts is that the public actually wants to cut the defense budget by even more than what’s contemplated in those cuts. Ask your average...
View ArticleObama Attacks Romney on Size of Military Budget
Observers have expressed surprise at this Obama campaign ad hitting Mitt Romney for supporting increased military spending: Mitt Romney’s plan? A new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires. Increase...
View ArticleObama’s Plans for a Second Term Include Rallying Public Opinion
There’s been little or no bounce for Romney/Ryan from the GOP convention, on the eve of the Democratic convention. The race is static and has been static for the last several months, because in...
View ArticleObama Plans to Hit Road With Oh-So-Popular Message of Cutting Social Security...
Obama hits the road to sell "grand bargain" President Obama plans to meet with business, labor and civic leaders early this week about the fiscal slope, according to Reuters. Congressional leaders will...
View ArticlePoll: Public Will Blame Republicans If Country Starts Down the Fiscal Slope
Republicans have enough problems dealing with their own internal insurgencies, but it should be explained that their biggest problem in the fiscal slope negotiations is that the public is poised to...
View ArticleAs Gun Safety Debate Heats Up, Danger in Trying to Solve Wrong Problem
Gun violence protesters march on NRA lobbying offices in Washington DC The President has asked his cabinet for proposals on how to curb gun violence, suggesting that there’s no actual set of...
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