CBS/New York Times poll found that 56 percent of those surveyed opposed reducing pay or benefits of public employees in order to balance state budgets, and 60 percent opposed weakening the bargaining rights of public employees.
I’m betting this poll was taken in heavily union areas.
The media are really great at skewing a poll to meet their agenda.
meanwhile the latest generic ballot results show Republicans with a 46% to 37% lead over Democrats.
That’s all that matters, we are WINNING!
they need to poll on the question “Are you willing to have your taxes raised in order to maintain current levels of pay and benefits for public employees?”
Considering how many people are employed by the govt sector, 56% is about right.
As Charen points out, look at the wording of the questions. The 56% opposing reduction of pay or benefits were obviously asked a skewed question.
In WI the question was not about reducing their pay or benefits at all. It was about the public employees being asked to contribute a minor amount to their own benefits.
That could be spun into a ‘reduction,’ as in a few less $ in their wallets, but not a reduction in salary nor in benefits.
So now, with the reaction of the public sector employee unions and the abandoning of their state by the Dem legislators, WI passed a bill whereby each of the public sector unions will have to be re-certified each and every year.
51% of all members (not just those voting) will have to be in favor of re-certifying, or the union is de-certified.
Initially, union members will turn out to vote, so that will most likely happen, but it’s going to be hard to sustain over time.
Overall, I’d say Walker won. Big.