The results of a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll were released yesterday. They showed, among other things, that a vast majority of Americans would prefer to raise taxes on the wealthy rather than cut social services. Here’s MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discussing the results.
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Poll Finds Tea Party Anger Rooted in Issues of Class
The New York Times and CBS recently commissioned a poll in hopes of better understanding the Tea Party movement, and the findings are pretty interesting. Here’s a clip: Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according […]
A fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories
On their website today, FOX News is asking what we Americans make of the Tea Party movement. Here are the results thus far: Now let’s see if they report on the poll tomorrow morning, during FOX and Friends. [To vote in the poll, click here.]
What Republicans really think
The folks at the Daily Kos just commissioned a poll of 2,000 self-identifying Republicans by independent polling firm Research 2000. I think you’ll find the results enlightening. Here’s a sample: • Over a third of Republicans believe the birth control pill is abortion (which explains why nearly a third of them want contraceptive use outlawed). […]