75% Say Free Markets Better Than Government Management of Economy, Political Class Disagrees

Rasmussen Reports

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely Voters prefer free markets over a government managed economy. Just 14% think a government managed economy is better while 11% are not sure. These figures have changed little since December.

Polling released earlier this week showed that Americans overwhelmingly believe that more competition and less regulation is better for the economy than more regulation and less competition.

Not surprisingly, America's Political Class is far less enamored with the virtues of a free market. In fact, Political Class voters narrowly prefer a government managed economy over free markets by a 44% to 37% margin. However, among Mainstream voters, 90% prefer the free market.

Outside of the Political Class, free markets are preferred across all demographic and partisan lines. This gap may be one reason that 68% of voters believe the Political Class doesn't care what most Americans think. Fifty-nine percent (59%) are embarrassed by the behavior of the Political Class.

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Posted: Jul 24 2010, 8:09 PM

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The average American can not make change, can not balance a check book and has thousands of dollars in credit card debt.
What should we care about the average American's opinion on financial and econimic matters?

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Posted: Jul 27 2010, 8:45 PM

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if there was no government there still would not be such a thing as a free market - too much corporate interference.

free market + globalization = starvation

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