CBS Poll: Support For Stimulus Falls

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

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 recession.

Fifty-one percent of those surveyed support the stimulus package, while 39 percent do not. An additional ten percent don't know. Last month, 63 percent supported the package and just 24 percent opposed it.

Americans believe the president is following through on his promise to establish greater bipartisanship in Washington: The public overwhelmingly thinks Obama is reaching out to Congressional Republicans, with 81 percent saying he is doing so.

Americans do not believe that Congressional Democrats and Republicans are following suit, however: Only 49 percent believe that Congressional Democrats are striving for bipartisanship, and just 41 percent say Congressional Republicans are seeking bipartisanship.

The different perceptions are reflected in the various parties' approval ratings: President Obama's approval rating stands at 62 percent, while the overall approval rating of Congress is 26 percent.
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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 864 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone February 2-4, 2009. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/05/opinion/polls/main4778192.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

[sniffa]

1. I hope they know whom tax cuts benefit the most

The unemployed.

[ikojo]

8. Americans will never be against tax cuts for the rich

because most still believe that if they work hard enough they too will be rich.

See this article on commondreams.org...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/04-12

Published on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by The Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Inequality Alive and Well in US

by John Buell

snip

"During the campaign, Democrats argued that working and middle-class citizens would be better off under their tax proposals. This debate is important, but it obscures one quintessentially American trait. More workers in the U.S. than in other nations are convinced they are going to become rich. They identify with the interests and ideas of the rich. It is important to reduce taxes on the working class. Nonetheless, fair taxation and economic justice are less likely as long as many believe they are only a little more hard work - or one lottery ticket - away from wealth."

[sniffa]

12. I know. It's the biggest farce going

I know I'll never be rich. I'm working currently to get to the top of my field. When I get there I'll be comfortable but not rich.

[Hansel]

20. Never say never. I think they just might be starting to catch on

Watching failed corporate piggies whimper because the all-you-can-eat taxpayer trough has been shut down while 1/2 million people who were filling that trough with their hard earned money are laid off weekly might just do the trick. At this point most people probably don't think they'll have a job, much less become rich. And they are beginning to figure out exactly who's to blame.

You can fool most of the people some of the time, but not forever.

[marshall]

27. They do , but the stimulus has little to do with tax cuts

It's about funding the government.

[bluestateguy]

2. Is it possible we could cool it with the polls?

The election is over.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Feel free to ignore - it's on CBS site so I think it's news

Just love you DU'ers who have nothing better to do than drop in to complain on threads. What's happening now in Congress could damn well affect my job and my life. This poll shows the damn Repukes have been successful in the past week in getting their message out while the Dems have stumbled a bit.

[JayMusgrove]

5. YOUR life and YOUR job???? Honey join the human race, and ...

get down off that cross, someone needs the wood.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Get off your high horse

I've been on DU long enough to post whatever I damn well want and let the mods handle it if it's in a section it doesn't belong.

[JayMusgrove]

4. That's IT!!!!!!!!! Obama is a lame duck..............!!!!!!!!!

Bring on Sarah Palin!

Oh we can't wait for 2012 to get some new blood in the Oval Office, and get rid of this unpopular President.


:sarcasm:

Seriously, do you think Hillary would have handled the last 16 days a lot better????

[GoesTo11]

How do you think Sarah Palin would have handled the last 16 days?

We would be at war with Iran, the Dow would be at 4000, there would have been a 500 billion dollar bailout to her family. The possibilities are endless.

[proudAZdem]

13. Chuckles.

Yes, the economy sucks, but that last post made me chuckle. I can't imagine how much worse our economy could be, but if you throw in Palin, it definitely scares me.

[Chemical Bill]

7. So the majority approve, but the headline is negative.

Is that about it? Fuck the corporate media.

Bill

[jkappy]

10. this headline messes with one's mind n/t

[Optical.Catalyst]

9. The problem is we didn't pass the legislation quick enough.

There was a lack of cooperation between the President Obama's team and the leadership in the House and Senate.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi should have introduced identical bills on day one. Now we let those repukes get their foot in the door to delay this important stimulus package, and the talk radio jerks are nit-picking it to death.

Next time we need to just steam roll the Republicans and get what needs to be done, done.

[Triana]

11. YES - and the lame$tream media helped by trumpeting pigshit talking points ceaselessly

as USUAL.

[russspeakeasy]

14. and it should fail...

this is one reason people hate us democrats....dis
organization...slow to respond, then rush iut through so we
get the weekend off...
Start over....do it right...if it doesn't create jobs.....cut
it out!

[ErtBob]

15. Triana nailed it

I think this is where the problem is. Media Matter is doing a great job showing the considerable bias of our dear corporate media against the stimulus/job package. Everyone needs to call in to the outlets and tell them to get on the train.

Corporatism is worse than terrorism, actually leading to more death and destruction!

[Hope And Change]

16. K & R!

[Jefferson23]

17. K&R

[truthisfreedom]

18. They need Democratic leaders on the radio and being interviewed on TV all day every day to push the

positive side of this thing.

[kiranon]

26. Agree. Right wing radio stops everything good from happening.

[madrchsod]

19. yes, its over...

the public has spoken. we are all doomed

[Zhade]

21. "INTERVIEWED BY TELEPHONE" SAYS IT ALL.

Gee, no chance people who support this bill because they need it would have HAD THEIR FUCKING PHONE SERVICE SHUT OFF, now is there?

Fucking asshole media.

[truebrit71]

22. CBS = Corporate Bull Shit

This from the network that allows Mannthrax and O'Really to spout their bullshit on thier morning shows without any challenge...and that was a fave of Kindasleezy Rice "Harry Smith is one of my guys...."

I think that 80% of the US population has no clue what the hell is IN the stimulus bill...

[merrylander]

23. Remember, the Media = HIGH Tax bracket hogs at the trough

Why should anyone be surprised that the corporate media is
putting their wagons in a circle around their treasured tax
breaks, gained through Bush? That's what this whole media
slant job of the past month has been about, it is just as
simple as that. The average upper tier person in the media is
in that tax bracket, from the bloated execs at the top to the
talking heads spouting spin on the screen. Some days back,
Katie Couric, who makes over $10 million a year, was actually
defending the CEOs for taking bonuses out of the bailout
funds. Afterall, she observed, it is part of their salary,
really, so "it's not as bad as you might think."
HUH???? But we are supposed to believe that the media is
unbiased. Yeah, right. What is even more outrageous, is the
evidence that the current media slant job is a collusion - on
Fivethirtyeight.com there is a commentary about how the word
"pork" has been systematically introduced into
articles on Obama's stimulus package with increasing frequency
- not in just one paper or on one TV network, but across the
board. Yet, if there were any honest journalists at work at
these places, they would have pointed out that the so-called
pork projects in the plan amount to roughly two pages out of
some 800-plus plages, and that these pork projects would in
fact create jobs in nearly all cases. But then, there are no
real journalists left out there. Those who weren't
systematically picked off in Iraq were "phased out"
and replaced by the "new model" - slick talking
heads who appear to have earned degrees in marketing, not
journalism. 

[nc4bo]

24. I see the media is still at it. They won't stop until popularity is nearly ZERO. nt

[GinaMaria]

25. maybe calling it a stimulus package sounds to much like *

How about the Get Americans back to work plan
or the
stop the massive hemorrhage in our economy plan by helping out the people who actually fund these things
or the
Every man's bailout, banks not welcome plan
or the
It's Your money, it should help you plan?

[bdamomma]

28. weird because on the floor of the Senate

Senator Stabenow just said most Americans support this bill.