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43% Say Auto Bailouts Were Good for U.S., 44% Disagree

Voters continue to hold a much more positive view of the government bailouts of the automobile industry than they do of the ones given to the financial sector.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 43% say the government bailouts of the auto industry were good for the United States, while 44% say they were bad for the country. Thirteen percent (13%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters nationwide was conducted on July 13-14, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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