53% Say Bailouts Have Been Bad for the Country

Rasmussen Reports
Jan. 19, 2011

Most voters still aren't convinced that government bailouts have been a good idea.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters think, looking back, that the bailouts of banks, auto companies and insurance companies were bad for the United States. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree and feel the bailouts were good for the country. Sixteen percent (16%) aren't sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The gap between Mainstream voters and the Political Class remains striking. Two-out-of-three Mainstream voters (67%) say the bailouts were bad for the United States, while 60% of those in the Political Class say they were a good thing.

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