Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Unhappy About Citizens United Ruling

Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Unhappy About Citizens United Ruling
Evan McMorris-Santoro | February 8, 2010, 1:44PM


Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito may not have wanted to hear it during the State Of The Union address, but a new poll shows the majority of Americans agree with President Obama's take on the Citizens United ruling. More than 60 percent of respondents say it was a bad idea.

The opposition was found across party lines, and according to the pollsters was especially common among independents -- the group both parties have desperately fought over for a decade now. The pollsters said that result suggests that the parties would be well-served to take on the ruling and reinstate campaign finance regulations canceled out by the ruling with new law.

The poll was conducted by a bipartisan pairing of Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and Republican strategist Mark McKinnon. The sponsors were several groups opposed to the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, which they say will open the door to unheard of corporate influence in American politics. The results of the survey show that the general public overwhelmingly agrees. Sixty-four percent of respondents were opposed to ruling, while just 27% said they favored it.

"The results are pretty striking," Greeberg said on a conference call with reporters this morning. He said that the current anti-establishment fervor in the electorate suggests that incumbents should get as far away from the Citizens United ruling as they can. "The last thing people want to see in this environment is corporations having more influence on politicians."

That's especially true among independents, as data from the poll shows.

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now that corporations are people, maybe polls will start including them.

after excluding the billionaires and others most likely to benefit.

seriously.

Do tell, because I don't.

Eh, likely not.

SCOTUS decision are those that might benefit or profit from it. I am against the decision and now believe that a new amendment must be added to the Constitution of the United States. I do not believe that the first amendment needs to be added too or taken away from, but an entirely new amendment needs to be written that puts corporations in their rightful place among living, breathing, bleeding, and dying human beings, that their right to exist as a corporation is only at the will and benefit of real human beings and anything corporations do to hinder, destroy, or change humanity for the worse should be a serious violation of our human rights and severe penalties should be levied.

I feel allowing corporations to be treated as legal persons is a huge mistake, among other things, it allows COEs and executives to get away with murder. They get caught doing some thing wrong?? No worries, the corporation just pays a fine and the people behind the wrong get off scott free.


Mac