Poll: Voters Against Obama 'Wealth Redistribution' Plan

CNBC ^ | October 23, 2008 | CNBC

[Anticommie]

you are clueless. Does any of the actual valid data mean anything to you? I really hate people who just spew crap without facts.

I am clueless? Thanks to Bush McCain policies I and millons of fellow Americans lost their future to the wall street crooks that's a fact, can you deny it? We will see who is "clueless" on Nov 5.

Ever heard of Wall Street?

Or your idea of Wall Street is: "just a street I think it is in New York, and I do not understand why the media is talking much about it lately, is the wall of this street higher than most of the buildings in NYC? LOL

[AmericaUnited]

You are an idiot. A 100% idiot@! Bush and McCain both tries many times to reign in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Go over to DU where you belong.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Younger people don’t have a clue what Marxism is or that’s it’s been proven a violent, repressive horrendous form of government everyhwere it’s been tried. A crash couse for the Americanh public on the proven dangers of Marxism and Communism and its leaders is needed now.

[SuziQ]

He has also gone from an 11-point deficit to a 9-point lead among Catholics.

That is TERRIFIC news!! I think the Bishops' statements regarding the comments by Pelosi and Biden are resonating with the regular pew-sitters.

[SuziQ]

Obama gave Joe a cursory, petulant answer that came out in a moment of irritation, petulance, condescension that Obama would have been better served to have postponed until the election had been held to indulge himself in such clear snobbery.

You could tell by Obama's body language that he was pi$$ed! He got real close to Joe and was almost poking him in the chest with his index finger. It was a very 'in your face' stance, just like he's asked his supporters to take with folks who disagree with Obama.

[EVO X]

Bush/McCain gang "redistributed" my IRA and retirement alright You all voting for McCain are the "shipple" now.

Bush and McCain didn't redistribute it. You did by taking on too much risk. I took a pretty good shellacking myself. I happen to think it will come back sooner with McCain, than Obama. If Obama gets in the whole retirement structure could change. There are democratic senators and congressmen on record wanting to change it.

[CottonBall]

Personally, I prefer ASSET REDISTRIBUTION because it includes everything — income, accrued wealth from other sources like inheritance, etc. ASSET redistribution sounds very very frightening to me.

That's the perfect term. I was saying 'redistribution of earnings' because the term wealth makes it sound like it's unearned money and excessive. But 'asset' is the perfect one. Thanks.

[CottonBall]

Thanks to Bush McCain policies I and millons of fellow Americans lost their future to the wall street crooks

Bush and McCain tried to stop it - thank Barney Frank and his ilk for the current mess.

[CottonBall]

What Obama calls for is taxing the pre-wealthy

So we'll never become wealthy. Exactly right. I like 'income distribution' so much better than 'wealth' also. It's more accurate. As someone whose husband earns a decent middle-class salary, everything I earn is taxed currently at 45% (fed, state, + SS and medicare). With Obama, it'll be even higher than that - as if taking 45% of what I earn isn't enough! There's no way he'll stop at $250,000 - what Democratic president ever has?

[ridesthemiles]

ATI-News/Zogby 1214 LV poll - 57% vs 24% against “spreading the wealth”.”

I conclude that the 19% don’t work. They are already on the dole.

[SuziQ]

Oh, that, too! Looks like they’re not buying Obama’s ‘soak the rich’ idea. GOOD!

[CutePuppy]

Thanks. I think it is the same poll that was posted on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113338/posts - IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven - O: 44.8%, M 43.7%, U: 11.6.

I understand it was most accurate one in 2004. Usually I don’t pay much attention to regular / media polls, particularly because most (even ones that really try to be accurate, which are very few) measure popular, not few states at stake in electoral college votes and they also have to skew the sample to account for party registration.

I posted this because it’s different from usual polls and it’s topical and very fresh in people’s minds, but at the same time has large enough sample of likely voters, so it would not get pat answers people usually give to pollsters.

It kind of shows that ‘Joe the Plumber’ is a [positive] factor in people’s considerations and a positive factor at that in this election cycle.