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Always To The Right on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:08:29 PM
And note that this Public Strategies poll has a bit of skew in it as well towards Democrats in its sample.
Even with a ten-point gap for Democrats over Republicans, though, the
economy takes center stage for voters, leaving health care and climate
change in the dust. As Politico reports, as a partner to Public
Strategies in this poll, pro-business sentiment has increased since
Barack Obama took office, which makes the effort to regulate less
popular now
Why the shift? The poll finds that voters have remained sensitive to
government spending and deficits over the last few months, perhaps a
result of the massive spending on the Democratic agenda. They mistrust
the federal government’s efforts at fiscal discipline by almost a 2-1
margin, although they also distrust corporations by a smaller gap.
Voters narrowly reject the idea of expanded regulation as a recipe for
recovery, but instead want better enforcement of existing regulations
by more than 2-1 as a policy.