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New Survey: Americans More Concerned Than Ever About Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Americans are more concerned than ever that the ongoing Obama administration effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-four percent of likely U.S. voters are now at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free [...]

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Survey: 60 Percent of Americans Oppose Raising Taxes on Nation’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry

November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

By a decisive margin, Americans oppose raising taxes on America’s oil and natural gas industry, and most believe it could kill jobs, according to an election-night telephone survey commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute and conducted by Harris Interactive.  Sixty percent of the voters surveyed oppose an increase in taxes on the industry (compared with [...]

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Survey: Primary Care Physicians Fear Extinction

October 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Eighty-seven percent of 1,400 physicians said they are not well represented in the halls of power (a.k.a., government), and that’s not all, according to recently-released results of The Great American Physician Survey 2010.  More troubling, however, is that nearly half think primary care physicians will eventually be extinct, replaced by cheaper non-physician providers. Something else [...]

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‘Perfect Storm’ Leaves Americans Critical

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments

By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Sunday. Pew describes the political environment as “a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government — a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with [...]

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Survey: 92 Percent of Physicians Back Tort Reform (Update)

November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

EDITOR’S UPDATE 11/21/09: Click here to see the SERMO.com blog page containing survey results mentioned by Dr. Dan Windsor at the Million Med March today in Clayton, Mo. More details about the rally will be published here during the remainder of the weekend.  Jackson Healthcare survey article continues below. * * * Ninety-two percent of [...]

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Survey: Fewer Americans Worried About Warming

October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising, according to results of a new survey released today by The Pew Research Center for People and the Press. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious [...]

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Survey: Lawyers Expect Boom in Bankruptcy

March 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments

A country that elects Barack Obama, a liberal lawyer, as its president should not be surprised by the results of a recent survey by Robert Half Legal:  Three-hundred attorneys from among the largest law firms and corporations in the United States and Canada were asked, “In your opinion, which one of the following areas of [...]

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