Half a million people actually know what time it is!?!

[Badgersmilk]

http://www.personalliberty.com/economic-bailouts-poll-results/

And yet you dont hear a word of these opinions in our press..... 

[tombogan03884]

Yes, I posted this a while back;
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=7496.0

Here's some more opinions you won't here from the state media;

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/what_they_told_us_reviewing_last_week_s_key_polls

Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party, and the jockeying already has begun to determine who its standard-bearer will be in 2012 - even though the first primaries are 30 months away.

Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation as governor of Alaska and the drop in President Obama’s approval ratings, particularly since the release of a jobs report that shows unemployment at its highest level in 26 years, have turned the conversation to Election 2012. For now, it seems clear that next year’s congressional races and the presidential contest beyond are going to be all about the economy.

On the Republican side, there is no clear frontrunner: 25% prefer Mitt Romney, 24% would vote for Sarah Palin, and 22% say Mike Huckabee is their top pick.

A plurality (40%) of Republican voters also say Palin’s resignation hurts her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Those who say economic and fiscal issues are their biggest concerns make up the majority of Republican voters, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney runs best among those voters if the 2012 GOP Presidential Primary in their state was held today.

In one contest that’s in the here and now, Republican challenger Chris Christie has lost his post-primary bounce but still leads incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine in the New Jersey governor’s race. Republicans often look better in the polls early on the Garden State, but then Democrats surge back in the fall. Obama’s popularity in New Jersey and the state of the economy will be key as November approaches, but Corzine is campaigning for reelection in a very difficult political environment.

The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures daily consumer confidence, dropped dramatically this past week, reaching on Friday its lowest level in four months. Nationally, 14% of adults say their personal finances are getting better while most (54%) say they are getting worse. The Rasmussen Investor Index, which measures the economic confidence of investors on a daily basis, also hit a four-month low on Thursday.

The Discover U.S. Spending Monitor fell for the first time in four months, with more consumers expressing concern over the current state of the U.S. economy. Overall, 59% rated current economic conditions as poor, a four-point increase from the previous month and the first increase since February.

The overall level of consumer confidence has bounced around a lot over the past year but ultimately changed very little. But underneath those topline numbers is a dramatic shift along party lines. A year ago, Republicans were far more confident than Democrats. Today, the reverse is true.

But voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy.

The president has managed to maintain relatively high and stable approval ratings despite sizable public discomfort over many of his economic policies, but that appears to be changing as more voters link the economy’s continuing problems to those policies. The Presidential Approval Index was in negative territory all week and slipped to the lowest level yet recorded for President Obama.

Now, particularly with unemployment rising to 9.5 percent, senior Democrats are talking about a second economic stimulus plan. Sixty percent (60%) of voters now oppose the passage of a second stimulus plan this year, a five-point increase in opposition since the issue was first raised in March. Still, despite the public opposition, 68% say the president and Congress are likely to pass a second plan this year anyway.

Obama is expanding his original federal mortgage assistance program to let more people participate, but 43% of Americans say the program should be ended instead. Thirty-five percent (35%) agree with the president.

Forty-six percent (46%) say the government should not get directly involved in the housing market, but 42% like a government program that helps all homeowners reduce their payments. Just nine percent (9%) like the program the way it is now, helping only homeowners who face foreclosure.

Most Americans (71%) agree that the U.S. housing market will only improve when the overall economy gets better, an eight-point increase from February when the president first announced his $275-billion national mortgage assistance plan.

A number of states, most notably California, are now facing sizable economic problems of their own and are, in some cases, using money from the first stimulus plan to keep going. However, 62% of Americans oppose federal government bailouts for states that are experiencing major budget problems.

In part, that’s because 44% say, generally speaking, the government tries to do too much, although 31% believe it doesn’t try to do enough. Only 18% think the government attempts to do about the right amount of what the public wants.

There’s a similar disconnect between voters and the average member of Congress. Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are, while 36% believe the average Republican congressman is more conservative in comparison to themselves. Just 44% of voters say their representative in Congress is about the same as them ideologically.

The president spent much of his week on the road, visiting Russia, meeting with the leaders of the G8 industrial nations and Pope Benedict XVI in Italy and then going to Ghana before coming home.

Obama struck a deal in Moscow for both the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpiles, but just 22% of voters trust the Russians to honor that agreement.

Similarly, most voters (54%) said the G8 leaders were unlikely to agree on a significant plan to help the global economy.

Just 17% of Americans agree with the pope’s call for more international regulation of the U.S. economy, as part of a new papal encyclical urging world leaders to steer the world economy in a more moral direction.

In other polls last week:

-- Republican candidates lead Democrats for the second straight week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. Forty-one percent (41%) would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would choose the Democratic candidate.

-- In a survey taken just before North Korea conducted a series of Fourth of July missile tests, 38% of voters say the rogue Communist nation remains the biggest threat to U.S. national security. This is the second month in a row for that finding, which puts North Korea at the head of the list of those nations voters view as national security concerns.

-- The president recently hosted a White House meeting to relaunch the legislative process for “comprehensive” immigration reform. This push is coming despite the fact that voters don't rank immigration as a priority issue. The gap between the Political Class and most voters on this issue remains huge.

-- The Supreme Court is expected to hand down a ruling this fall that could loosen restrictions on contributions to political campaigns in a major way, but 56% of U.S. voters believe the federal government should regulate how much money individuals can give to political campaigns. However, 88% say special interest groups will find a way to get around those regulations. Disclosure is seen as more important than limits and 40% believe it costs $10,000 or less to influence a Member of Congress.

-- Forty-three percent (43%) of voters expect America’s relationship with the Muslim world to be roughly the same in one year as it is now. That finding is virtually unchanged from the 45% who felt that way just prior to Obama’s speech reaching out to Muslims worldwide that he gave in Egypt in early June.

-- Thirty-four percent (34%) of voters believe the United States is moving in the right direction, the lowest level of optimism found since early March.

[Kid Shelleen]

That's some encouraging news. It looks like people are starting to get it. I was good to see that the Rasmussen Report was dated today 07/11/09.