Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue


A poll shows good ratings for three Democrats in North Carolina.

The survey by the conservative Civitas Institute think tank showed 64 percent of likely voters had a favorable opinion of President Obama, while 24 percent were unfavorable and 12 percent had no opinion.

It also showed 58 percent had a favorable opinion of Gov. Beverly Perdue, while 20 percent were unfavorable, 20 percent had no opinion and three percent were not aware.

And it showed that 47 percent had a favorable opinion of Sen. Kay Hagan, 22 percent were unfavorable, 25 percent had no opinion and six percent were not aware.

"It appears everyone except for Hagan is still enjoying a honeymoon with North Carolina voters," said executive director Francis De Luca.

The live survey of 600 likely voters was taken March 16-19. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Obama and his dream team are tossing the Constitution out the window.
Perdue is following his lead. The reason for the rush to pass all these
new laws and bills is they are not lawful. They have to rush them through,
crying emergecy, before the taxpaying voters realize what is going on.
If they took time to tell the people the truth I bet these POLLS would
tell a very different story.
Take the time to look up "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" They took an oath
to defend and protect the Constitution not ignore it and make up the laws
to suit their agenda, which is looking more like dictatorship all the time.
Call your congress rep. and ask them to open up HR 1207 ( this is an audit
of the government) let's see where our money is really going. This would
stop a lot of pushing their agenda down our throats.
Bev Perdue is a Nancy Pelosi in progress.
Obama is making way for his place in the one world government.
Hagan is just going along for the ride.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

It's unproductive to keep rehashing this privacy rights and stimulus package argument. I will say that most of the hard decision-making will fall on this Senate and House body, republican and democrat. Begrudging Kay Hagan because she won the election is one way to spend time here, but we have a lot more important things to dwell on.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Obama, Hagan and Perdue: UNFIT for SERVICE !

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

"Two days is ample time for all of those aids and staff members on the Republican side to look over the legislation"

Looking over that legislation should take more than two days to read over and was this sense of urgency really needed by the Obama Administration?

Could we not have given them time to read over the bill in its entirety?

Since the Democrats have given themselves the power to retroactive attack the private sector and we the taxpayers' pay the salary of those officials, then I would like to a reason why they were fired, especially Aikens after a day and a half. I can understand if Wambu was fired for poor performance, but that would be contrary to the statement made by Hagan's office, which stated that Wambu was merely heading back to DC. The stories just do not add up from Hagan's office.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Two days is ample time for all of those aids and staff members on the Republican side to look over the legislation. Yes, it would take organization, but it could be done. The opposition is doing a fair job at checks and balances, but they need to get better organized than just begging for more time to trash an emergency package in the press. It doesn't matter who was fired or what their race is, they (the fired people) have that privacy protection. If they were done wrongly, I can assure you that they will seek legal counsel and then you will know.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

All of the Republican Senators asked for more time to review the legislation, since they were promised 5 days and only given two. Sunlight laws give us citizens the right to know if there were some criminal doings in the firings of the two African Americans on the same...seems suspicious

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Republican senators do not reveal personnel information either. That is just good sound policy. Can you imagine what lawsuits would be filed if her office divulged that type of information? But again, I don't think that it will affect her ability as a senator. As for the stimulus, I don't recall any senators Republican or Democrat bringing those bonuses to anyone's attention before voting. If anyone can name one I will stand corrected

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Hagan has been very not open in my experiences with her and her offices. When questioned about the firing and Aiken and Wambu, they merely said it was a personnel matter and the media left it at that...but I still have looming questions as to why the African American employees were fired without reason - and yes Aiken was not given a reason. Second, if by openness you mean not reading a piece of legislation before voting on it and that legislation is the Stimulus Package...not very open or in the best interest of the state...she never even read the thing...so how could she know if it was or wasn't...she is nothing but a blind follower.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

I am not surprised at these numbers either. They are all good. The 25% no opinion group for Hagan is due to less visibility for legislators than for executives. Hagan has been in this state many times since being elected and voted in the state's interest. That will go a long way with the voters. That's why we elected her. The bonuses were not good but they have tried to correct it. It is the openness that is welcome. During the last eight years this type of thing happened all the time but was covered up so no one could question it. It is good to criticize something worthwhile, enjoy it because that open window is a welcome change.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

I am not shocked that Hagan's numbers are falling. She has turned out to be a sock pocket for the liberal Democrats. Thus far, she has voted 94% of the time with people like Chris Dodd and Harry Reid.

For example, let's think about this AIG situation. Hagan touted a press release to limit executive compensation packages.

http://hagan.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=307834

Her amendment was passed in the US Senate prior to the Stimulus Package. One would think that since she proposed and worked hard to pass her amendment that Sen. Hagan would take a vested interest to ensure that these compensation packages would not just reappear as they did last week. If Hagan and the rest of the Senate would have read the bill after the joint conference committee then perhaps they would have found the provision that allows AIG to hand out bonus as well as over $20 Billion to foreign banks.

It is worth noting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will handing out some bonuses near the end of this week. Let's see what Congress has to say about these bonuses. Lest not forget that Barney Frank said that Fannie and Freddie are "fundamentally sound." Yet there are preparing to ask for more bailout money as well as pay their bonus obligations.

Hagan used to be the Vice President at a bank, the predecessor to Bank of America, you would think that is she is capable of understanding these nefariously misguided attempts by these organizations.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Uh how can you possible twist the question? Favorable, Unfavorable, or no opinion either way? Oh and using your standard I can subtract 8 to 10% from a poll commissioned by MSNBC or any other liberal organization?

Every expert on national secutiry and terrorism says Obama is living a honeymoon from the protections put in place by Bush. They all say the changes made by Obama are actually undermining our security.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Given Civitas' polling methods, I'd add a 8-10% if fair polling questions were used. Honeymoon? Maybe they are just doing a good job in the tough mess left by GWB.

Re: Poll: Obama, Hagan, Perdue

Popluarity contests are important.
So whatcha, whatcha, want?