By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Americans over 40 and people who are nervous about retirement are most likely to oppose President Bush's plan for creating personal accounts in Social Security, an Associated Press poll found.
Almost half of Americans who haven't retired say they don't think they're doing a good job of getting ready for that time in their lives, according to the AP poll. Many say they're not confident they'll have enough money to live comfortably after they quit working.
"People are trapped in a dilemma," said Robert Blendon, a polling expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "They know they're not saving enough. They can't count on Social Security and they're not sure these private accounts will be better. They're not sure what to do."
More than half of Americans, 55 percent, say they oppose the president's plan to create private accounts, while 39 percent say they support it, according to the poll conducted for AP by Ipsos-Public Affairs.
Support for the plan drops among Democrats and independents when it's described specifically as "President Bush's plan." http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050228/ap_on_re_us/retirement_ap_poll_6