Some "high"lights from the New York Times/ CBS late October poll.
With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever. ...
Almost half of the public thinks the sentiment at the root of the Occupy movement generally reflects the views of most Americans. ...
The approval rating for Mr. Obama, 46 percent, appears to be elevated by positions he has taken on foreign affairs. Sixty percent of those questioned said they approve of his handling of Iraq, a question added to the poll after his announcement last Friday that American troops would come home by the end of the year. ...
... The poll found substantial support for the [job-creation] plan’s individual components, more than half of the public say he lacks a clear plan for creating jobs, despite his extensive travels around the country over the last six weeks selling his proposals.
About 8 in 10 Republican primary voters said it was still too early to tell whom they will support, and just 4 in 10 said they had been paying a lot of attention to the race. ...
Only about a quarter of the public said that lowering taxes on large corporations or repealing the entire national health care law was a good idea. But half of the public favors reducing or repealing regulations on businesses in the United States. ...
A remarkable sense of pessimism and skepticism was apparent in question after question in the survey, which found that Congressional approval has reached a new low at 9 percent. The disapproval toward Congress has risen 22 percentage points since the beginning of the year when Republicans took control of the House. ...
In February, a CBS News poll found that 27 percent of the public said the views of the Tea Party movement reflected the sentiment of most Americans. In the current poll, 46 percent of the public said the same of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ...NYT
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Texas Governor Rick Perry is left speechless.
Appearing on Fox Business this evening, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry went silent when host Neil Cavuto noted that some ideas Perry espouses sound like those of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. After Perry stated his opposition to Wall Street bailouts, Cavuto replied, “You sound like one of those Occupy Wall Streeters.” This was followed by a long silence before Cavuto finally said, “OK” and moved on to another subject. ...Think Progress
