US: Economy (ABC/Post 10/15-18)
Emily Swanson | October 23, 2009
ABC News / Washington Post
10/15-18/09; 1,004 adults, 3.5% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
(Post: story, results graphic; ABC: story, results)
National
Do you think Obama's economic program is making the economy
better, making it worse or having no real effect?
41% Better, 22% Worse, 35% No effect
Which of these do you think is more important right now - increasing federal
spending to try to improve the economy, even if it sharply increases the federal
budget deficit; or avoiding a big increase in the federal budget deficit, even if it
means not increasing federal spending to try to improve the economy?
38% Increasing spending, 57% Avoiding deficit
How do you feel about _____ - very worried, somewhat worried, not too worried or
not worried at all?
The direction of the nation's economy over the next few years:
74% Very/Somewhat worried, 26% Not too/Not at all worried
Your own family's financial situation:
60% Very/Somewhat worried, 40% Not too/Not at all worried
Many economists say that using the standards they apply, the recession probably is
over. Thinking about your own experience of economic conditions, would you say that
from your point of view the recession is over, or not over?
16% Over, 82% Not over
Would you support or oppose the federal government putting limits on the salaries
and other compensation that can be paid to top executives at the companies that
received emergency government loans in the past year?
71% Support, 27% Oppose
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