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Poll:71% Angry at Federal Government!(46% Very Angry!!)
Rasmussen Report ^ | Nov 30, 2009 | BigTigerMike

Posted on 11/30/2009 1:02:39 PM PST by Bigtigermike

Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry........

The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September.

Even more stunning, the 46% who are Very Angry is up 10 percentage points from September.


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Sixty-five percent (65%) of Republicans and 59% of unaffiliated voters say that neither party has the answers. Those percentages are down significantly since September. Democrats remain fairly evenly divided as they were in September. The latest numbers show that only nine percent (9%) of voters trust the judgment of America’s political leaders more than the judgment of the American people. Seventy-four percent (74%) place more trust in the wisdom of the crowd............
1 posted on 11/30/2009 1:02:40 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

You better believe it!

Near torches and pitchforks pissed-off angry.


2 posted on 11/30/2009 1:05:03 PM PST by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: Bigtigermike
If I were to believe the recent polls, 50% of the country approves of Obama, and 46% of the country is Very Angry with the government.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. We seem to be rather divided.

3 posted on 11/30/2009 1:05:52 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Bigtigermike
What percentage is like me, “REALLY F#*K'N P$SSED!”?
4 posted on 11/30/2009 1:06:40 PM PST by txroadkill (Sarah Palin- The "Gipper" is back)
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To: Crazieman

I’d like to see this poll question over a period of 20 years. that’s a huge percentage of angry people.


5 posted on 11/30/2009 1:06:43 PM PST by Pantera
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To: Crazieman

Haven’t seen O’s approvals,,supposed to be out today from Rasmussen.


6 posted on 11/30/2009 1:07:04 PM PST by cajungirl
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To: Bigtigermike

The closer to Christmas, the more pissed off the unemployed will become.


7 posted on 11/30/2009 1:07:27 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

New Rasmussen poll. This is a good one!


8 posted on 11/30/2009 1:07:54 PM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: Crazieman
Near torches and pitchforks pissed-off angry.

2010 better relieve some of this pressure, or we're heading for an explosion.

9 posted on 11/30/2009 1:08:51 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: cajungirl

-14 today


10 posted on 11/30/2009 1:09:21 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: txroadkill

Count me in that Group!


11 posted on 11/30/2009 1:09:32 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Bigtigermike
27% are not angry about the government's policies,

Isn't that about the percentage of government workers? You know, the ones with the highest salaries and best benefits - and the ones that wouldn't have to sign on to the health plan?

The American people to the gov't and it's "Policies"?>

12 posted on 11/30/2009 1:10:42 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: Bigtigermike

I wish they’d ask me...where can we all vote in this poll?


13 posted on 11/30/2009 1:10:44 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Maybe Pewlosi will rush out and point out how many of those are Nazis and astroturf.


14 posted on 11/30/2009 1:10:44 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Bigtigermike
Do they have a category for being 'we-weed up'? ...

(not that I'm exactly sure what that expression means...)

15 posted on 11/30/2009 1:10:46 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Bigtigermike
neither party has the answers

Not surprising, when Obama says that we need to "reform" the healthcare system, and many Republicans reply, "Yes, but we need to reform it our way, not yours."

Too many Republicans and most of the Republican leadership just keep playing "Me too! Me too!"

Basically, Obama is saying, we need to slap on another $4 trillion in debt, and Republicans are saying, "How about doing just $3 trillion for now and the rest later?"

16 posted on 11/30/2009 1:11:03 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Bigtigermike

10% probably is the number of extream pot smokers with thier medical cards.


17 posted on 11/30/2009 1:11:08 PM PST by Colvin (Harry Reid is a sap sucking idiot.)
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To: Bigtigermike

” Sixty-five percent (65%) of Republicans and 59% of unaffiliated voters say that neither party has the answers.”

Wow. Do you suppose the Repubs might listen now?? Don’t hold your breath.


18 posted on 11/30/2009 1:12:35 PM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: Bigtigermike

Put me down as VERY angry!


19 posted on 11/30/2009 1:12:53 PM PST by Laserman
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To: Bigtigermike

The data suggests that the level of anger is growing.

Ya think? Shoosh - sometimes you don’t need a poll, you just need to open your eyes. How did Bobby Dylan put.. “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. Methinks this anger will consume poor little bammy and his nurse nancy.


20 posted on 11/30/2009 1:13:34 PM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Bigtigermike

Did they already pull the link?

All I’m getting is:

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21 posted on 11/30/2009 1:16:46 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Well that’s because Congress hasn’t passed Healthcare and Cap and Tax....

/sarcasm


22 posted on 11/30/2009 1:19:24 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Bigtigermike
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies

That's the 27% of the population who are government employees.

23 posted on 11/30/2009 1:21:08 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: txroadkill

Count me in on your side!


24 posted on 11/30/2009 1:22:10 PM PST by benewton
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To: Bigtigermike

What Federal Government? In name only....it is Obama’s Government now...he has himself surrounded by fellow Marxists, radicals, and Socialists....few of them ever voted on. Obama is doing just what he has always planned to do...change America’s free market, freedom, capitalism into government owned entities for government only....tax the rest out of existence, collapse the nation then line up the non-believers and shoot them.....folks we’re just a few months away from Spain in the 1930s.....electing a man like Obama was and is stupid to run a free society...he is Marxist: non-caring and non-feeling.


25 posted on 11/30/2009 1:22:42 PM PST by yoe ( Fight organized crime: Re-elect no one...)
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To: Bigtigermike
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry........

What percent of this subset get money from the government on a regular basis and pay no taxes?

26 posted on 11/30/2009 1:25:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The myth of man made global warming is science fiction.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Obama is a popular guy but they don’t like his policies.

It’s a survey result that has come out several times from different pollsters.


27 posted on 11/30/2009 1:26:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The myth of man made global warming is science fiction.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
Maybe Pewlosi will rush out and point out how many of those are Nazis and astroturf.

SEIU Astroturf photo op of the day...


28 posted on 11/30/2009 1:29:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The myth of man made global warming is science fiction.)
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To: a fool in paradise
I've seen those surveys many times. Personally, I think a lot of people really dislike him but just can't bring themselves to put it down in black and white (they'd be racist if they didn't like him. right?). So people say that Obama seems like a swell guy, real bright, wonderful speaker, blah, blah, blah ... but his policies? Oh! Don't get me started on his policies!!!

We have a PC culture. Many folks say they like Obama. But they don't. Not as a person, and not as a policy maker.

29 posted on 11/30/2009 1:29:57 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Political Correctness forces people to lie.


30 posted on 11/30/2009 1:31:13 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: a fool in paradise
SEIU Astroturf photo op of the day...

Hard to tell if that is a protest or a picture of them at their government jobs.

31 posted on 11/30/2009 1:38:53 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Bigtigermike

You bet people are. The elitist bastards in Washington better be glad it’s not the days of torches, pitchforks and the guillotine.


32 posted on 11/30/2009 1:40:35 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Crazieman; LS; Windflier; WOSG

No torches and pitchforks anymore, Nightvision and AR’s are the new hardware of the pissed off masses!!!


33 posted on 11/30/2009 1:42:54 PM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Pitchfork angry!


34 posted on 11/30/2009 1:43:52 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: MrB
Near torches and pitchforks pissed-off angry.

2010 better relieve some of this pressure, or we're heading for an explosion.

I would venture to guess that torches and pitchforks may possibly be the least of their worries.

35 posted on 11/30/2009 1:53:23 PM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17

Pitchforks and torches were brought because the “peasants” weren’t allowed to have real weapons. They brought the best they had.

Today’s citizens,

whom the left would LOVE to make into peasants in a feudalist society with them as the neo-nobility,

have much better than pitchforks and torches.


36 posted on 11/30/2009 1:57:49 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Bigtigermike

It just shows that people no longer believe in the two party system. It is horribly corrupt. No matter how you look at it. The GOP is to blame squarely for Obama getting into office.

All the way back to Obama’s first senate run - Jack Ryan...another great example of the cheating GOP scum. The GOP could have stopped Obama back then.

You can name GOP members that have done more to bring the DEMS in power than any DEM has ever done.

It is time to crush the two party system and bring forth candidates that will actually stand for the US Consitutition, implement immediate term limits, clean out our government of career politicians and truly return our country back to “We The People”...if we don’t make a drastic turn now we can all expect to be in forced conflict sooner than we all want to believe.

The choice is ours...stay with the same failed recipe somehow thinking that the GOP finally gets it...or wake up to the reality that they nor the DEMS will never get it.


37 posted on 11/30/2009 1:58:55 PM PST by surfer
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To: a fool in paradise

45,000 uninsured dead every year. Just wait until government healthcare comes to pass that number is going to jump!


38 posted on 11/30/2009 2:01:49 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“Democrats take equality for their motto; oligarchs believe that political rights should be unequal and proportionate to wealth. But both sides miss the true object of the state, which is virtue. Those who do most to promote virtue deserve the greatest share of power.”

“It is harder to preserve than to found a Democracy. To preserve it we must prevent the poor from plundering the rich; we must not exhaust the public revenues by giving pay for the performance of public duties...”

“Office should be made a burden, not a source of profit.”

- Aristotle Politics


39 posted on 11/30/2009 2:06:03 PM PST by maxsand
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To: WKUHilltopper

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2009/71_angry_at_federal_government_up_five_points_since_september

HERE you go....sorry


40 posted on 11/30/2009 2:07:13 PM PST by Bigtigermike (Loose lips sink ships, stay away RINO's)
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To: Bigtigermike
What number do we dial for "revolution?"



41 posted on 11/30/2009 2:14:59 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (LIBERTY)
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To: dirtboy

LOL...


42 posted on 11/30/2009 2:19:26 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: maxsand

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.” — Albert Camus


43 posted on 11/30/2009 2:21:00 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Bigtigermike
Seventy-four percent (74%) place more trust in the wisdom of a crowd of......MONKEYS...........

There fixed it!!!

Never mind, the republicans are to damn dumb and to bought to run against wall street and this bailout mess.

44 posted on 11/30/2009 2:25:13 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: MrB

“By 287 BC, the economic condition of the average plebeian had become poor. The problem appears to have centered around widespread indebtedness. The plebeians demanded relief, but the senators refused to address their situation. The result was the final plebeian secession.”

- Abbott, Frank Frost (1901). A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions


45 posted on 11/30/2009 2:35:40 PM PST by maxsand
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To: MrB
Today’s citizens, whom the left would LOVE to make into peasants in a feudalist society with them as the neo-nobility, have much better than pitchforks and torches.

You are correct sir. I have heard others say we are on the verge of a revolution. They just not know if it would be an "American Revolution" or a "French Revolution." I also wonder which it will be.

46 posted on 11/30/2009 2:40:54 PM PST by Mark17
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To: Cicero
Too many Republicans and most of the Republican leadership just keep playing "Me too! Me too!"

What do we expect from this clown?


47 posted on 11/30/2009 2:41:09 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: yoe

You left out our dear and valued communist Congressmen...with out them he can do nothing.


48 posted on 11/30/2009 3:12:52 PM PST by bobaloobob
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To: lonevoice

Music to my ears!


49 posted on 11/30/2009 3:49:19 PM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Bigtigermike

> including 10% who are Not at All Angry.

Let’s see. that about equals the ethnically driven voter base, doncha think?


50 posted on 11/30/2009 3:51:42 PM PST by XEHRpa
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