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NYT/CBS Poll: 52% Say Obama Moving America Towards Socialism
cnsnews.com ^ | 4-16-10 | Matt Cover

Posted on 04/16/2010 12:45:31 PM PDT by Justaham

A New York Times/CBS News poll found that a majority of Americans, 52 percent, think the policies of President Barack Obama are moving the United States toward socialism

Published April 14, the poll surveyed the political, racial, and social opinions of both the general pubic and self-described members of the tea party movement. It found that while tea party participants are generally more conservative than the broader population, they are also better educated and slightly more successful.

The poll found that almost the entirety of the tea party movement – 92 percent – shared the views of most Americans that Obama was turning the United States into a socialist country.

The poll asked respondents specifically whether the president’s policies “are moving the country more toward socialism.” Fifty-two percent answered “toward socialism” while only 38 percent answered “not toward socialism.”

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1 posted on 04/16/2010 12:45:31 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Justaham

He is moving the country to insurrection if anything.


2 posted on 04/16/2010 12:48:51 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Justaham
"Only 29 percent of tea partiers do not have at least some college education, a figure that far outpaces the rest of the country, of which 47 percent have no college education."

I guess they can't call us 'rubes' any longer.

3 posted on 04/16/2010 12:50:09 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Justaham

And they say the public school system is failing.

/s


4 posted on 04/16/2010 12:52:11 PM PDT by Canedawg (I'm not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: Justaham
"The finding that should most worry incumbents who do not share tea party members’ views was that 97 percent of the activists are registered voters."

Your hear that McCain! You're gonna see the 4th branch of government in session come November 2, 2010!!!

5 posted on 04/16/2010 12:52:28 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Justaham

CONCENSUS, as Al Gore Jr. would say


6 posted on 04/16/2010 12:53:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (We've gone from phony soldiers to phony conservative protesters. Nothing about liberalism is genuine)
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To: Justaham

48% of people have no idea what socialism is or what this administration has done.


7 posted on 04/16/2010 12:54:16 PM PDT by AngieGal
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To: Justaham

The other 48% have no idea what the word “Socialism” means.


8 posted on 04/16/2010 12:54:59 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Justaham

Number seems a little low considering Tea Party attendance and current popularity polls for zero and the Dem-run Congress.


9 posted on 04/16/2010 12:56:42 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Justaham
"...moving the United States toward socialism" Make that socialist Fascism, jackbooted thugism.
10 posted on 04/16/2010 12:57:06 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Justaham

In other news, 48% of Americans pick their nose and eat it.


11 posted on 04/16/2010 1:03:44 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Justaham

Real Clear Politics is predicting a 100+ seat loss in the House for the Socialists..I mean Democrats.


12 posted on 04/16/2010 1:14:49 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: AngieGal

They think it means going to Happy Hour to hang with your friends.


13 posted on 04/16/2010 1:15:58 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: screaminsunshine

I can’t see how a lesser loss is possible. The latest actions taken against the citizenry in the US will bring people out in droves to vote, folks who normally don’t vote. The HR and Senate are not representing the people who elected them, taxes are higher, freedoms are reduced, government is in the way and the MSM are/look like fools to report otherwise.

People will simply not tolerate their freedoms, their own future and the future of their children and grand-children being taken away without a fight. If that fight at the ballot box is successful, good for us. If its not, there will be bloodshed, its as simple as that and as predictable as the sunrise.


14 posted on 04/16/2010 1:33:31 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (Tea Patriot Movement - Freedom First - Vote the Scum out - NOV 2010 & Beyond...)
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To: Justaham

The debate is not over whether Obama and Pelosi are moving our country toward socialism but over whether they are steering us toward national socialism, toward soviet socialism, or in the direction of some new compromise with the worst of both totalitarian ideologies.


15 posted on 04/16/2010 1:33:43 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Justaham

Have the other 48% been out of the country for awhile?


16 posted on 04/16/2010 1:52:26 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'm so old, I remember when free enterprise was praised, and communism was shunned.)
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To: popdonnelly

No, the other 48% think we’re already there.


17 posted on 04/16/2010 2:11:18 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Is the difference between "anticipating" and "just waiting" the same as between "when" and "if"?)
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To: Justaham

bttt


18 posted on 04/16/2010 2:47:03 PM PDT by aberaussie
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