Dems More Trusted on Energy than Any Other Issue, Continue Pursuing Polluter-Friendly GOP Ideas
By: Monday March 29, 2010 12:09 pm

In new polling focused primarily on healthcare, WaPo-ABC asked the following question:

Which political party, the (Democrats) or the (Republicans), do you trust to do a better job handling (ITEM)?

Here are the results:

Democrats Republicans
The Economy 44 36
Health Care 47 34
Immigration Issues 38 35
The Situation in Afghanistan 43 33
The Federal Budget Deficit 43 35
Taxes 41 39
The U.S. Campaign Against Terrorism 37 43
Energy Policy 49 32

It looks like despite the tea parties, the stimulus, the media’s obsession with process and the so-called ‘government takeover of health care,’ Democrats are still more trusted than Republicans on seven of eight top issues.

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Weekly Mulch: Politics Confuse Public Perception of Climate Change
By: Friday March 12, 2010 8:27 am

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re not longer so sure.

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