Archive for April 30, 2009

Trillion – the new billion

It was a revelatory moment when I moderated a focus group of Congressional Hill staffers earlier this year and they laughed, no, jeered really, at the mention of billions of dollars.  “Billions?” one scoffed.  “It’s all trillions these days.”   
 
Such may be the warped world of Washington, but at least spending trillions of taxpayer dollars [...] Read more

Obamanomics: Marginal majority support, but the clock is ticking for results.

Our most recent national survey asked a battery of questions on President Obama’s economic policies and the stimulus. In a nutshell, when it comes to Americans: Read more

55% support it;
56% support it and either believe it will work or hope it will work;
57% believe it will help most Americans, and
50% believe it will help they and their [...] Read more