Beneficial Bailouts?
Roughly half of Americans say TARP, federal loans to troubled banks, did not prevent a more severe financial crisis.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Americans are critical of the government’s response to the environmental disaster in the Gulf, but even more so of BP. Support for offshore oil drilling is down, though Republican opinion is unchanged.
The media scrambled last week as authorities arrested a suspect in the Times Square terror case, the Gulf oil spill grew more ominous, Wall Street went briefly into free fall and floods took a deadly toll in Tennessee. All of which left little room for coverage of a crucial overseas election.
22-Nation Survey Conducted April 7 – May 8, 2010