[lbo-talk] Innovative poll on foreign policy budget

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 12:29:29 PDT 2006


On 10/24/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> What is interesting is that given information about the distribution
> of the budget they made changes that were quite a bit different from
> what they express as their preferences when simply asked, in other
> polls, whether they want to increase, decrease, or maintain spending
> on a specific item. This raises an interesting question about which
> response is what we would call public opinion.

This is consistent with earlier polls I recall where people wanted foreign aid reduced to 8% or so of the federal budget.

-- Andy



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