Is Support For The Stimulus In Decline?
Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal asks the question and finds mixed results. Gallup says support is flat, while CBS News and Rasmussen Reports say support is declining.
In his post analyzing the numbers, Blumenthal offers a caution:
We have limited data on whether the most attentive Americans differ in their overall support. In a release earlier this week based on a different question, Gallup reported that those "most closely following news about the plan differ little from the overall national average in terms of their attitudes about the plan." However, their table showed that the attentive Americans were more likely to want to reject the stimulus package altogether (27%) than those following it "somewhat closely" (11% reject) or not closely (15% reject). Similarly, without reporting any specific numbers, CBS News tells us that "those following very closely are more likely to oppose the bill than thosfollowing just somewhat closely."