Last month, I conducted a national survey of 800 registered voters on their attitudes toward infrastructure investment. It was commissioned by Building America's Future, a bipartisan coalition of elected officials -- chaired by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg -- formed to support infrastructure investment. Consider this: A near unanimous 94% of Americans are concerned about our nation's infrastructure. And this concern cuts across all regions of the country and across urban, suburban and rural communities. 81% of Americans are personally prepared to pay 1% more in taxes for the cause. It's not uncommon for people to say they'd pay more to get more, but when you ask them to respond to a specific amount, support evaporates. (That 74% of normally stingy Republicans are on board for the tax increase is, to me, the most significant finding in the survey.) |
This is Bush-connected Frank Luntz we're talking about here. In terms of a tax increase, 87% of Democrats and 74% of Republicans back it.
No wonder Obama seems so certain his stimulus package will go through. "The survey's findings were unlike any other issue I have polled in more than a decade," Luntz writes.
(h/t Donklephant)
No wonder Obama seems so certain his stimulus package will go through. "The survey's findings were unlike any other issue I have polled in more than a decade," Luntz writes.
(h/t Donklephant)
