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Poll: Vast Majority See No Improvement in Economy

March 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama and his band of hopey-changers are not going to appreciate the findings of a recent nationwide poll of nearly 800 main household grocery shoppers which reveals, by a very sizeable margin, that American consumers appear to be at odds with recent reports that the economy has improved. Eight out of ten supermarket [...]

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Online Poll: 63 Percent Say President Obama Hurting More Than Helping U.S. Economy

January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment

A friend pointed me to an AT&T-Yahoo online opinion poll today that asks visitors to respond to a single question about President Barack Obama and the economy. The question is worded this way:  The president’s progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?  [...]

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Is Madoff More Trustworthy Than Geithner?

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Should Timothy Geithner resign? Nearly half of respondents to an online poll conducted by the Guardian said they would trust Bernie Madoff with their money before they would trust President Barack Obama’s embattled treasury secretary. The poll — which, as of this posting, was still running — offers two answers from which readers can choose [...]

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Poll: Most Americans Support Increased Drilling

March 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

As a public service, I offer this, the third in a series of posts intended to help readers of this blog distinguish between rhetoric and economic reality when it comes to matters impacting the nation’s energy future: RHETORIC: Most Americans want the federal government to pursue alternative and renewable sources of energy. REALITY: A recent [...]

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Obama Gets Failing Grade in MSNBC Survey (Updated)

March 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Though a March 6 poll by NEWSWEEK garnered him a 72 percent favorable rating, President Barack Obama is getting a failing grade in an MSNBC online poll today.  Oh, how things change quickly! After casting my vote this morning as one of nearly 175,000 cast in the liberal cable news network’s “unscientific survey,” the graphic [...]

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Poll: 74 Percent of Union Members Oppose Card Check Provisions in Employee Free Choice Act

March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

With media reports indicating that Vice President Joe Biden will use his address before the AFL-CIO’s winter meeting on Thursday to outline the Obama Administration’s game plan on card check, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace urged the Vice President to consider the views of the overwhelming majority of union members who are opposed to [...]

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Poll: Most American Voters Favor Offshore Drilling

February 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Most American voters support increasing access to domestic offshore oil and natural gas resources and would oppose any new laws or regulations that blocked development of those national resources, according to a poll released today. The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, found that 61 percent of Americans who [...]

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