Polls find OVERWHELMING support for Obama's school speech

[jefferson_dem]

Polls find OVERWHELMING support for Obama's school speech
by UncommonSense
Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 09:23:41 AM PDT

Two new polls suggest that the much-covered conservative outrage over President Obama's planned speech to schoolchildren is a manufactured hissy fit representing the sentiments of a fringe minority.

The polls, one taken on the "Left Coast" of California, the other in "The Heartland" of Missouri, show massive support for the president's speech to American students about the importance of education.

UncommonSense's diary :: :: A Survey USA poll taken in Fresno, CA asked respondents four questions about the speech. Overwhelming majorities expressed favorable opinions.

Q: President Obama plans to deliver a national address to school children on the importance of them taking responsibility for their own success in school. Do you think it is appropriate? Or not appropriate? For President Obama to deliver this address?
A: Appropriate 63% Not Appropriate 30%

Q: Do you think it would be appropriate? Or not appropriate? For ANY President to deliver this address?
A: Appropriate 64% Not Appropriate 30%

Q: If you had a child attending a school that was going to show the address, would you tell your child to pay attention? Would you tell you child to NOT pay attention? Or would you keep your child home?
A: To Pay Attention 78% To NOT Pay Attention 5% Would Keep Child Home 14%

Q: Who should decide whether to show President Obama's national address to school children? School districts? Or individual teachers?
A: School Districts 52% Individual Teachers 28%

SUSA asked the same questions of residents in Missouri with almost identical results.

Q: President Obama plans to deliver a national address to school children on the importance of them taking responsibility for their own success in school. Do you think it is appropriate? Or not appropriate? For President Obama to deliver this address?
A: Appropriate 63% Not Appropriate 33%

Q: Do you think it would be appropriate? Or not appropriate? For ANY President to deliver this address?
A: Appropriate 65% Not Appropriate 29%

Q: If you had a child attending a school that was going to show the address, would you tell your child to pay attention? Would you tell you child to NOT pay attention? Or would you keep your child home?
A: To Pay Attention 70% To NOT Pay Attention 4% Would Keep Child Home 21%

Q: Who should decide whether to show President Obama's national address to school children? School districts? Or individual teachers?
A: School Districts 57% Individual Teachers 23%

In each case, twice as many people say the speech is "appropriate" as those who say it is not. In Missouri, nearly three-quarters of respondents say they would want their children to "pay attention" to the president's message on the importance of education. In Fresno, nearly four out of five people say so.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/5/777475/-Polls-find-OVERWHELMING-support-for-Obamas-school-speech

[Peacetrain]

1. Good to read

[treestar]

2. LOL at the group saying they would tell the kid not to pay attention

so maybe Obama does not have brainwashing powers after all?

[tabatha]

8. More and more they are going to look like idiots.

[patrice]

22. Good catch, that. nt

[d_b]

3. Holy SHIT if true

for awhile there I thought these tea-bagging, birther, death panel dumb-shits were the majority!

[GoCubsGo]

15. That's what the media wants you to believe

They ARE the minority. They are also the loudest. The media wants you to believe these whackos are the mainstream, because they are doing everything they can to portray President Obama and the Democrats as ones cannot govern, and that America doesn't like them. Their corporate masters want the rethuglicans back in power. They'll do ANYTHING. One would think that the Dems would have learned this from the Clinton days, but apparently not. They're not helping themselves here.

[Jennicut]

4. And the media once again gives all the attention to the crazies

I guess liberals need to act like nutballs to get attention these days...
What crap can we make up/have hissy fits about that the RW does? Nevermind...we will never be heard or seen on tv.

[patrice]

17. They themselves are The Lowest Common Denominater, so that's what they SELL!

What a RIP OFF of a Public RESOURCE!!!

God, PLEASE send us a Trust-Buster!

[Phx_Dem]

5. Republicans have hit a new low with this one.

They have no credibility. If their mouth is moving, they're lying.

[patrice]

21. Yeah, is it everyone else's fault that Republicans raise kids who can't think for themselves? nt

[Cha]

6. I had hoped that was the case..since

all I've been reading about are the ones who are afraid.

[abluelady]

7. Many Counties Around Me Are Not Allowing It

What can we do about this?

[Cha]

9. I would think it would be up to

the parents of the kids in schools who do want to have their children hear what the President has to say on Education.

I hope they get real active on this.

[The Wielding Truth]

10. Ask if they had the same policy with Reagan and George Sr.?

[patrice]

20. Believe me, they Hate well-mannered, middle-class looking people with well-managed signs

standing at the nearest stop-light in front of their offices. It short circuits their whole game and it also STEALS Reich-Wing's thunder.

Sign holders get to stand there and smile and wave at their friends who honk when they drive by.

P.S. Count the honks relative to time spent holding signs.

[brewens]

11. It wouldn't have even occurred to me to keep a kid home

even to avoid a speech by Bush. I wouldn't have considered it very important for a kid to pay attention to though. Mostly because Bush giving kids an education pep talk would be so hypocritical.

[KingFlorez]

12. It's good to see that there is a majority that is level headed about this

Only the fringe is worried about this.

[patrice]

13. More Media Bullshit!! Un-plug it Everyone!

[GoCubsGo]

16. You said it!

Turn it off!

[patrice]

18. STOP buying any of their shit! Local! Local! Local! Go! Local! The smaller, the Better! nt

[patrice]

14. oooopps

[nini]

19. Let's face it .. the 30% get all the attention though they are the minority

The ignorant, deluded, frightened idiots of the country hear the right wing crap on FOX and believe it. They in turn get all wound up and get more attention and publicity helping do the dirty work for the well funded far right mother fuckers.

Look at the percents in this poll - same 30% that thought W was so great.

God damned freaking embarrassments to the human species.

[jwirr]

23. Unfortunately the squeaky wheel is getting the grease (MSM attention).

[olegramps]

24. Who hell are these people that account for 30%

I can only suppose that they are the scum bag worthless Republicans.

[Adelante]

25. Kansas and Florida, too

Florida 64% appropriate - 13% would keep kids home - 74% pay attention, kids

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=b12e9e64-35d4-4cbf-87a8-916374d74eef


Kansas 60% appropriate - 20% would keep kids home - 70% pay attention, kids

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=69c91e9e-b056-4dea-9a7a-5c73eea783db



The entire country is not stark raving mad, after all.

[NutmegYankee]

26. It's that insane 30% again.

Funny how that number pops up again and again...

[varelse]

37. Funny how they keep making the news, eh?

Is it the 80/20 rule? :eyes:

[emulatorloo]

27. Thanks for posting this. n/t

[hileeopnyn8d]

28. Those numbers

are good to see, and yet sad at the same time. These piece of shit 30 percenters are somehow taking over this country.

[TomCADem]

29. The fact that there are 30 percent who are against is still pretty amazing ...

for such an innocuous speech. This isn't Reagan pushing tax cuts to school children.

[jimlup]

30. The whinners are a small minority

The media is the problem here. They shouldn't be giving these people the credibility.

[Odin2005]

31. Once again, the Media is inventing a non-existant "controversy".

[ovidsen]

32. Thank you, tkank you, thank you!

For a time, I was wondering why so many of my fellow Americans were saying they'd rather keep their kids out of school than risk them being subjected to Obama's "brainwashing".

Turns out there aren't so many of them after all.

[opihimoimoi]

33. KnR :o)

:kick:

[demo dutch]

34. I cannot believe this is even up for discussion in the country! What a PATHETIC country!

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. Polls find OVERWHELMING support! Its too late!!!!!!

He has already taken over the minds of most American parents!

They are primed and eager to sacrifice their own children on the alter of Socialistic Islamic Communistic Fascist Gay Liberalism! Its over.

[Kablooie]

43. OR... it could work the other way. More people see the idiocy and move away from it.

[gtar100]

36. But overwhelming support never stopped Obama from capitulating to the boneheads.

This is a make-or-break week for Obama.

[goclark]

38. The M$M is out to make money in this economy

They must continue to say all this stuff --

Have you noticed that CNN and MSNBC have commercials on for all kinds of "second class" ADS?

Of course this is between the thousands of Viagra Commercials
And ~ all the whispers of the tiny little side effects with each drug. The ones they tell you in a baby voice to , "talk to your doctor if you are the one in a million that has a tiny little problem."

They should NOT be a PHARMACY!!!!!

I've seen the AD that talks about getting a new Diabetic Meter that doesn't stick you -- a valuable thing but I'm surprised it is on in prime time.

Selling stuff for $18 ~ they are fighting to keep crap going.

Seems like CNN is filling in a lot of Prime time with repeats. I know this is a Holiday weekend but this has been going a while.

The other night they repeated MJ's 2nd Memorial,using the same footage, at least 15 times.

And let's not forget the Prison Commercial "Lock UP?" that plays over and over.

If I see Larry King interview Chris Brown one more time - I'm going to call Rhianna and have her send her home boys to "talk" to Larry! :evilgrin:

Sorry for the rant but they make me so sick -- I know, I shouldn't watch. : )

[PatSeg]

39. I found the results of a survey at KCRA 3 in Sacramento

rather disturbing.

"Do you think President Barack Obama's address on education should be shown in classrooms?"

48% said yes and 52% said no. What the hell?

http://www.kcra.com/news/index.html

[kestrel91316]

40. A reminder to the Haters: We won. You lost. Get over it. Obama is POTUS.

[JDPriestly]

41. Let's see. It's 14% about the same as the Cheney approval rating toward

the close of the Bush regime? I suspect it is that same crew of hard-core extreme right-wingers causing all these problems. They are really on the edge.

[janx]

42. Not surprising. n/t