Poll: Most voters still opposed to bailouts

A poll released today by Rasmussen Reports show that most U.S. voters still don’t approve of the government bailouts of the financial industry and troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler.

From the poll:

• Just 30% of voters think it was a good idea for the government to provide bailout funding for banks and other financial institutions; 56% believe it was a bad idea.
• Thirty-two percent (32%) like the idea of the auto bailouts, but 58% don’t.
• Seventy-three percent (73%) of those in the Political Class think the auto bailouts were a good idea. Response from those with populist or Mainstream views are just the opposite: 73% of this group see the auto bailouts as a bad idea. The numbers are nearly the same for the bailouts of the financial industry.
• Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.