Posted on 01/30/2009 11:46:50 AM PST by Lorianne
Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts favor the economic stimulus legislation passed by the House this week, according to a new Democratic poll.
Democracy Corps sampled 1,200 people combined in those districts, dividing them into two groups: the 20 most competitive districts in the first tier and the next 20 in a second tier.
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, who conducted the poll, reported that 62 percent of voters in the 20 most competitive districts favor the $819 billion stimulus plan, while 66 percent in the next tier favored the legislation.
In a broader, nationwide poll conducted by the group this week, 62 percent of Americans said they favored the president’s economic stimulus plan, and 34 percent added they would be more likely to support their representative if he or she voted for the plan. Twenty-eight percent opposed the recovery package, and 20 percent said they would be less likely to support a lawmaker who supported the stimulus.
Greenberg said Americans were “desperate” to see Obama succeed, with support steadily building for the president’s administration.
“There’s no roller-coaster feeling to this,” Greenberg said. “There’s just a steady rise in confidence.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Probably polling DemocRATs.
The propaganda mill is running so fast, it’s going to throw a gear soon.
62% have no clue what’s in this bill
Exactly...just more “direction” for the sheeple....
Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts
Now do the same poll with the same questions in red states and see if the results are the same..HAHAHAHAHA..betcha they won’t be..
Democratic held congressional districts of course will be for this..they’re not working, they’re just getting and getting and getting..
The point of the poll is to compel Dems in moderate (competitive) districts to support the bill even though their instincts might tell them to vote against it.
You should take a poll! I bet the number would be closer to 99.9%.
They like it because they know too little of the real world to understand the consequences. Ask them how they like double-digit unemployment, double-digit inflation, and negative economic growth and see what the answer is then.
It’s a Festivus MIRACLE!
Don't so easily fooled by this obvious polling manipulation!
“Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts favor the economic stimulus legislation passed by the House this week, according to a new Democratic poll.”
Stopped reading after that sentence...lol Democrats are idiots....so of course they are ‘for’ the stimulus.
Obama’s gonna pay their mortgages, put gas in their cars,pay for their medical bills and babysit their children for free!
WooHoo!
“Exactly...just more “direction” for the sheeple....”
You got it. Tell the fools what to think. There would be no story published if the numbers went the other way.
Someone needs to tell them to try a couple different area codes then the ones for NYC, Washington DC and San Francisco.
only democRats
Greenberg said Americans were “desperate” to see Obama succeed.....
This American wants him to fall flat on his ass!
Its odd, I cant find ANYONE that thinks either package is or was a good thing...
Selective polling with HORRIBLE methodology conducted by a DEMOCRATIC group designed to get a headline to get people to feel all fuzzy about spending yet another $$TRILLION on nothing that will do anything to end the current economic woes.
Let’s poll the people to see if they want to reinstitute slavery or replace football with gladiator games.
Rassmussen 1/29
42% favor and slipping
Probably true. The answer is for the GOP to get our message out clearly. We need to explain how $16B was considered a stimulus not too long ago and $700B under Bush/Pelosi plus $850B under Obama/Pelosi is just runaway spending. We need to go through the bills and hold up examples that demonstrate that this is 99% pork, so that we can cut that support down to just the socialist 23% of the country. Otherwise, the GOP will lose on this issue, and the country will lose. Permanently.
Too late .The lawn jockey is going to get his way.
Now, though, there is no veil separating the “hopie changie” crowd from the reality of the situation. Everyone is going to get hit by the coming hard times, and eventually even the dimmest bulb is going to realize that they have been lied to and manipulated.
Those on the government teat, won't care, as long as they get their welfare checks. Besides, they can always riot when their favorite sports team wins, or something happens that gives them cause to; it's a good diversion. Those that are footing the bill for the tax takers will, though, because it will hurt them more than they were told to expect.
The big question is will this happen before 2010, when the congressional pork starts really hitting the streets? Will the sheeple's eyes be opened before this happens, or will they stir and go back to sleep, dreaming of the loving embrace of the government nanny, when the Dem's magic pork potion takes effect?
[My reading is that nowhere near 62% of all Americans favor this ‘stimulus’ bill ]
The stimulus plan has a popularity shelf life of about a month at most before the wheels come off the cart. It will produce no tangible benefits as concocted.
Sampling 30 people per district will hardly get you realistic numbers.
Yes well if you poll in the projects and ask them if they want bigger checks what do you think the result would be?
I called Senator Snowes office today and the reponse to voting against the bill was tepid.
Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts
That say it all right there. Like saying 95% of coffee drinkers like coffee or or better yet 100% of weal fare recipients support entitlement programs
“Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts favor the economic stimulus legislation passed by the House this week”
Who cares? What are they, economists?
Now put them actually through double digit everything and such, like under Carter and the tune will change.
Sorry to say but a large portion of our fellow citizens are morons and have to be educated by experience not information. Even then it doesn't stick for long. Once the heat of the fire goes away they start to burn themselves again...
Greenberg is delusional.
Backwards. Design a poll that gets the numbers to support a story.
That is the biggest load of sh** that I have ever heard.
The D-Craps caused the problem, the D-Craps rammed the bailout through with no accountability, they have no idea where the money was spent and now they are stealing more of the tax payers money again with no accountability.
And they expect people to believe that the tax payers approve of this fu**ing mess?
Don’t forget there food stamps,yeah that will work/s
Thanks!
Earlier poll said only 42% agreed with this garbage bill. This is a poll of DEMOCRAT districts. You can bet the farm on that.
Me either, Democrat or Republican. That's why I don't see where these polling number come from.
That comment doesn’t help us.
Democrats like stimuli too bad they won’t be getting any. This bill does nothing to pay their mortgage or their car payments as they were so proudly proclaiming their savior would do.
My idea of a stimulus would be to require banks that took money to lower their credit card interest rates and minimum payments, lower property & payroll taxes and cut off all wasteful spending in Washington. Somehow, I don’t think that will happen.
Democrats always like stimulus. Anything that steals from the earners and gives to the deadbeats pleases the democrats. They are low-life common theives.
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