Gallup: Americans favor Obama jobs plan
Americans generally favor raising taxes on higher-income Americans and eliminating tax deductions for some corporations as ways of paying for President Obama’s proposed jobs plan.
Obama laid out his proposals for the jobs bill in an address to Congress on Sept. 8, and sent the bill to Congress a few days later. Since then, the president has been pushing Congress to adopt the plan, although there are no signs yet as to when either House of Congress will begin to debate the bill.
The president also proposed raising taxes on wealthy Americans in his deficit-reduction proposal announced on Monday at the White House. Republican leaders have responded that this idea represents nothing more than “class warfare,” but the current data show that the majority of Americans generally favor increasing taxes on the rich as a way to increase revenue.
Slightly more than half of rank-and-file Republicans and Republican-leaning independents favor the idea of eliminating certain corporate tax deductions as a way to pay for a jobs creation bill. Forty-one percent of Republicans favor raising taxes on higher-income Americans. Democrats strongly favor both proposals for paying for the cost of the jobs bill.
Gallup: Momentum shifting in generic ballot?
For the second time in three weeks the Gallup survey of voter preferences on a generic congressional ballot has Democrats and Republicans essentially in a dead heat.
The most recent numbers, released on Monday, have Democrats with a narrow 46 percent-to-45 percent lead over Republicans. The report from Gallup notes a continued significant advantage for Republicans in terms of the enthusiasm of their voting base – with 47 percent of GOP-leaning voters calling themselves enthusiastic, and just 28 percent of Democrats self-identifying as enthusiastic.
Republicans held a 10-point lead in a Gallup generic congressional ballot survey in August and a five-point lead earlier this month.
Report courtesy WhenVirginiaWasBlue.com.
Even Steven: Dems, Repubs tied in latest Gallup survey
A 10-point lead for Republicans on a Gallup generic congressional ballot was erased in a week. Gallup now has Republicans and Democrats all even at 46 percent support each among the voting public.
Link to news brief on WhenVirginiaWasBlue.com.
The World According To ChrisGraham.com: A Democratic surge?
Polls are what they are – snapshots in time with value dependent upon a variety of factors. They can tell us a lot, or they can tell us nothing.
Trouble is most of the time there’s a fine line between them telling us a lot or nothing, and we’re usually not aware of the distinction until after the fact.
Case in point: Recent polls by Public Policy Polling and Gallup measuring voter attitudes toward Congress on a generic congressional ballot. PPP measures a 43 percent-to-43 percent dead heat in voter preferences between Democrats and Republicans. Gallup, for its part, has Democrats surging ahead of Republicans by a 49 percent-to-43 percent margin.
Link to column on TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com.
Gallup: Plurality in favor of health-care reform
A narrow plurality of Americans support the passage of a new health-care bill, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
Forty percent of those surveyed in the Gallup poll say they support passage of health-care reform, with 36 percent opposed and 24 percent saying they are still undecided on the issue.
The Gallup analysis reports that with the leanings of those who say they are undecided are taken into account, 51 percent of Americans favor or are leaning toward reform with 41 percent opposing it or leaning toward opposition. Read more
Half-Truths and No-Truths
You can’t just make something up out of the total thin air like, oh, I don’t know, saying that Gallup has Barack Obama as the second-least popular president at the 100-day mark of the last 40 years, and get away with it, can you?
You can if you live in Fringeland, where down is up, up is down, and the new president and his 63 percent average approval rating for his first 100 days, is somehow less popular than presidents whose average first-term approval ratings at their 100-day marks were at 62 percent (Richard Nixon), 60 percent (Ronald Reagan), 58 percent (George W. Bush) and 57 percent (George H.W. Bush). Read more
What Would Hillary Do?
Posted by afp on September 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
The 52 percent-37 percent margin is interesting to me because … I’ve wondered what I would do if Clinton were to mount a nomination challenge.
The obstacles faced by Obama and his team have no doubt been great, but that said, I’m not sure that Obama has grown into the leader that he needs to be giving the challenges being faced by the country.
He sold voters in 2008 on vision, but the key criticism I would offer two years later is that his presidency has largely lacked vision, at the expense of political expediency, at which he has proven, from looking at the results, to be less than adept at.
Read the rest of this column at TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com.
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