[lbo-talk] Gallup: Americans fine with SC decision on corp speech

[Alan Rudy]

don'tcha just love the equation of corporations and unions as similar
"special interests" - faux balance and faux equivalency = faux analysis,
even if your respondents buy the faux, et voila we're back to ideology
hey, how about having the US give unions all the protections provided to
corporations and all the rights of individuals?  I mean, really, if they're
the same, they're the same, no?

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> <
> http://www.gallup.com/poll/125333/Public-Agrees-Court-Campaign-Money-Free-Speech.aspx
> >
>
> January 22, 2010
>
> Public Agrees With Court: Campaign Money Is "Free Speech"
> But have mixed views on other issues at heart of new Supreme Court ruling
> by Lydia Saad
>
> PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' broad views about corporate spending in
> elections generally accord with the Supreme Court's decision Thursday that
> abolished some decades-old restrictions on corporate political activity.
> Fifty-seven percent of Americans consider campaign donations to be a
> protected form of free speech, and 55% say corporate and union donations
> should be treated the same way under the law as donations from individuals
> are. At the same time, the majority think it is more important to limit
> campaign donations than to protect this free-speech right.
>
> ...
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