Only 50% support regulations for Wall Street ??

[kentuck]

In the latest poll, only 50% support any regulations for Wall St and even less support regulations on the Big Banks ??

After they almost destroyed our economy and these same people's 401K's and life savings, only 50% think they should be regulated?

That is unbelievable!

Either we live in the most stupid country in the world or this poll is nothing but a clever piece of propaganda? Which do you think?

[liberal N proud]

1. The other 50% have their heads up their asses.

Again, it is the propaganda running away with common sense.

[laughingliberal]

3. +1000 nt

[valerief]

2. I think it's the banks' polls. nt

[NNN0LHI]

4. Bush had a 90+% approval rating after allowing 3000 people to die on his watch

When I think about that I just shake my head.

Don

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

31. He stood on a pile of rubble.

That's when I knew he was going to be great.



Stop yelling in my ear, asshole!

[mdmc]

5. Honestly why would anyone trust Dodd to take on the banks?

If I was a GOP spin doctor, I would stress this bill is just another corporatist bailout bill masked as reform.
THE BAILOUTS are very unpopular and we should have let them fail when we had the chance.

[kentuck]

10. Dodd has always been a water carrier for the banks..

That is true.

And we hear that Goldman Sachs is hiring Obama's former White House lawyer to assist them in their defense? What does that mean?

And Rahm Emanuel is talking about running for Mayor of Chicago? Didn't he make a lot of quick money on Wall Street before he started working for Barack Obama? Perhaps that means nothing?

And Timothy Geithner, an old friend of the Obama family, is still the head of the US Treasury, even with the latest stories coming out about AIG and his role in the bailouts to Goldman Sachs.

And Obama himself got more money from the Goldman Sachs and the Big Banks than anyone in the last election.

Is it any reason people might be skeptical?

[mdmc]

13. All good points my friend

My thought was, "Where will Dodd be working in two years?"
I am sure he will rake in mad, mad cash. And it won't be the working people of America paying his salary.

[CBR]

24. 90% of the population does not even know who Dodd is. nt

[kentuck]

25. Unfortunately..

Probably very close to the truth.

[bullwinkle428]

6. And some here were insisting it would be a slam dunk!!

Once again, the Democratic Party needs to go back and learn "Messaging 101"...

[notesdev]

7. Was that any regulations?

Or was it the latest (fatally flawed) proposal to come from Dodd?

Huge difference... the first would be disturbing, the second shows people are waking up and realizing that the Congress is playing for the other team.

[Tailormyst]

8. I think the poll is way off.

[WeDidIt]

9. Got a link to this poll?

I'm betting it's funded by the banksters or something because every other poll shows overwhelming support for regulating Wall Street. We're talking nearly 3/4 support.

[kentuck]

11. It's all over the news.

I saw it on MSNBC.

[emulatorloo]

26. There is something out of whack about that poll. Lots of contradictory stuff in it,.

There is something funny about the way they asked the questions and defined the words.

[chill_wind]

12. This is mind-numbing. HAS to be a bad poll.

k & R.

[SOS]

14. Wall Street Despised, Most Want Oversight, Poll

Bllomberg poll shows 70% hate Wall Street and want regulation

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-24/wall-street-despised-most-want-oversight-poll-shows-update1-.html

[chill_wind]

16. Thanks for posting that. That sounds more accurate.

eom

[kentuck]

17. But that was last month...

:-)

[HughMoran]

21. That's a more realistic poll - though this shows again why the Dems need better message control

This latest poll is just a reflection of another Republican lie campaign. Never underestimate the utter stupidity of the fucking lazy morons that live in this country.

[kenny blankenship]

15. Not surprising really. The government has basically covered up for the banks

Only now is there a case against GS and that you'll notice is a very weak civil case, not a racketeering charge.

So what are the people to conclude if law enforcement "sees no evil"?

[Crystal Clarity]

18. There's got to be something wrong

with that poll...I'd hate to think that 50 percent actually don't support at least some accountability for Wall Street

[kentuck]

20. I think they said it was a Gallup poll?

It is unbelievable to me also. Who did he poll? Goldman Sachs employees??

[emulatorloo]

27. It has a lot of contradictory answers in it. It seems off somehow. Pew Research, not Gallup.

EOM

[kentuck]

28. On MSNBC, they reported that....

when they included "Wall Street" in the poll question, the numbers for reform went up? When they just said "Big Banks" or something similar, the numbers were both in the '40s. Something like 46-43 in favor of reforms?

To me, it seems like nothing more than a propaganda poll. It is so unbelievable to be incredible. It was probably paid for by Goldman Sachs, if the truth be known?

[femrap]

19. I have long ago

stopped listening to these polls. They simply lie.

ETA: But if the Consumer Protection Agency is placed under The Federal Reserve's umbrella, is this reform? But I doubt those polled know anything of this.

Polls Lie or the questions is framed in such a way that the answer is manipulated.

[rpd123]

22. I remember when the DNC sent me poll numbers...

back in august or september saying that the majority of people were very happy with their health insurance. It was about the same time that Obama stopped using using that ugly phrase "public option". I saw it for what it was at the time. Trying to convince people that we really don't want a public option.
Here we go go again. Now theyre going to try to convince us that we really don't want Wall Street reform. This is going to be fun, isn't it

[raccoon]

23. This poll is nothing but a clever piece of propaganda. nt

[B Calm]

29. Republicans do what their leaders tell them! They're followers, ass kissers.

[marmar]

30. I think both of your assertions are true.....

The poll is probably heavily propagandized, but, large numbers of people in this country are, sadly, stupid. Or at least so brainwashed by so many years of free-market, anti-government propaganda that they can't overcome the cognitive dissonance.