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Poll shows support for Democrats' goals [an Associated Press-AOL News poll found........]
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Posted on 01/02/2007 12:53:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago

People overwhelmingly support two of the Democrats' top goals — increasing the minimum wage and making it easier to buy prescription drugs from other countries — as the party takes control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years.

By a smaller margin, the public also favors relaxing restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a third issue Democrats have promised to tackle during their first 100 hours in charge.

The jury is out on incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Most people say they do not know enough yet to have an opinion about the California Democrat who will be the first woman in that office, an Associated Press-AOL News poll found.

The survey results come as the 110th Congress is set to convene Thursday at noon. Voters last November toppled Republican majorities in both the Senate and House, exasperated by investigations into the ethics of GOP lawmakers and unhappy with the war in Iraq.

Democrats will hold a 233-202 edge in the House and will control the Senate by 51-49.

A boost to the $5.15-an-hour federal minimum wage would be the first since 1997. Democratic leaders have proposed raising it in stages to $7.25 an hour. President Bush has said he supports the idea, along with help for small businesses.

Fully 80 percent of survey respondents favor an increase, too.

Support is strongest among Democrats, 91 percent, while 65 percent of Republicans back the idea. Women, men without college degrees and single women all are especially likely to favor a minimum wage hike.

Nearly seven of 10 adults, 69 percent, favor the government taking steps to make it easier for people to buy prescription drugs from other countries,

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this poll smells to high heaven
1 posted on 01/02/2007 12:53:33 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
The telephone survey of 1,004 adults

What a freakin' crock.

2 posted on 01/02/2007 12:56:21 PM PST by JennysCool (Well done, President Ford.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nah, I bet most people do support raising the minimum wage and buying cheap drugs. They don't really think it through and it just feels good. The same goes for embryonic stem cells... it just feels good (unless you're an embryo of course).
3 posted on 01/02/2007 12:57:49 PM PST by rhombus
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To: Sub-Driver

There was an AOL poll just last week that showed nearly 65% were unhappy to have "progressives" in control.


4 posted on 01/02/2007 12:57:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Free stuff... has always been popular with the masses!


5 posted on 01/02/2007 12:58:48 PM PST by avacado
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To: Sub-Driver

How can respondents say "no" to a free lunch? The trick for the dems will be to get the legislations passed and the President's signature, no easy task with all the new moderate dems in the House and only a 16 vote majority, coupled with a 50-49 Senate. The dems are about to find out how tough it is to pass anything in the Senate when they can't invoke cloture. Payback's hell ain't it Harry?


6 posted on 01/02/2007 12:59:38 PM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Not one question about if the American Sheeple favor the Rats strategy of giving terrorists rights and their cut and run strategy. Figures coming from the crAP.
7 posted on 01/02/2007 1:01:16 PM PST by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Sub-Driver
The telephone survey of 1,004 adults was conducted Dec. 19-21 by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

My money says "Push-polling"


8 posted on 01/02/2007 1:04:38 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: moose2004
The dems are about to find out how tough it is to pass anything in the Senate when they can't invoke cloture. Payback's hell ain't it Harry?

Get used to lots of very loud and very public moral indignation about undermining the will of the American people. It's going to be great.

9 posted on 01/02/2007 1:05:04 PM PST by rhombus
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To: JennysCool

"The telephone survey of 1,004 adults"

There are 300 million people in this country and we can come to a conclusion based off a poll of 1,004 people? I don't have that much faith in statistics, even if done correctly.


10 posted on 01/02/2007 1:05:25 PM PST by Hendrix
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh yes, the "Do you want more money and free drugs?" question, everybody loves democrats and hates the GOP according to the AP.


11 posted on 01/02/2007 1:06:10 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Sub-Driver

BS


12 posted on 01/02/2007 1:07:34 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Sub-Driver

How many people get paid the minimum wage? I think it is a small number of workers and that is why increasing it may really have little impact either way.


13 posted on 01/02/2007 1:08:21 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Sub-Driver
this poll smells to high heaven >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ohhhhh Yeah, here comes the Democrap Pap.

"Let them eat cake," says Pelosi!

Everyone will approve.

Remember that Dem-supporting polls measure only one thing:

How successful the MSM Democrap Propaganda has been at fooling the electorate.

14 posted on 01/02/2007 1:08:50 PM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: cripplecreek
There was an AOL poll just last week that showed nearly 65% were unhappy to have "progressives" in control.

Thats probably because the nitwits they polled didn't have a clue what a progressive was.

15 posted on 01/02/2007 1:09:11 PM PST by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What the polls say doesn't necessarily determine how world politics will exactly play out for everyone!


16 posted on 01/02/2007 1:11:17 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: Sub-Driver

Naturally, there's no questions about impeaching Bush or raising taxes.


17 posted on 01/02/2007 1:11:45 PM PST by D-Chivas
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To: Sub-Driver
>>>The telephone survey of 1,004 adults was conduct Dec 19-21, by Ipsos, an international...<<<

DARLENE SUPERVILLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
18 posted on 01/02/2007 1:14:51 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: jveritas
More to the point, what about the guy who started at $5.15 and is now making $7.15 due to hard work and being responsible? When the Minimum goes to $7.15 is he going to get a raise to $9.15...I doubt it.

So basically you have stuck a stick in the eye of the guy who worked hard and moved up the ladder. Typical democRATS.

The democRAT party is the home of ever type of criminal and pervert imaginable
19 posted on 01/02/2007 1:15:40 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
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To: rhombus

"They don't really think it through and it just feels good."

I think you just summed up the mental disorder we call liberalism. They never use logic or think anything through. It's all emotion and it all sounds good.


20 posted on 01/02/2007 1:16:08 PM PST by Radio_Silence
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