{"id":234993,"date":"2010-01-26T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/01\/26\/bernanke-divisions-in-congress-mirror-public-concerns\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:30:48","slug":"bernanke-divisions-in-congress-mirror-public-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234993","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke Divisions in Congress Mirror Public Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The split in the U.S. Senate on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke<\/strong>’s nomination for a second term mirrors a divide among the American public, according to the latest Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll.<\/p>\n

About 18% of those surveyed said they were “positive” about Mr. Bernanke, the same share that said they were \u0093negative.\u0094 Of the rest, 19% called themselves “neutral” and 45% said they were unsure. That puts Mr. Bernanke\u0092s ratings slightly ahead of those of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner<\/strong>, who had a smaller “positive” share.<\/p>\n

About 37% of those polled Jan. 23-25 opposed Mr. Bernanke’s reappointment and 34% supported it with the rest not sure. That was little changed from a June poll. The new poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Of those who have investments, 38% supported his reappointment and 35% were opposed. Those with $50,000 or more in investments favor a second term by 42% to 37%. Of those without investments, 28% supported reappointment while 40% were opposed.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bernanke first became Fed chairman in 2006 under President George W. Bush.\u00a0 President Barack Obama nominated him for a second term as chairman last August.\u00a0 Of those polled who said they voted for Mr. Obama in 2008, 42% supported Mr. Bernanke’s reappointment while 33% were opposed.\u00a0 Voters for Sen. John McCain in 2008 opposed Mr. Bernanke’s reappointment 45% to 26%.<\/p>\n

The poll found that Mr. Bernanke has a gender gap. Men favor a second term, 40% to 36%; women oppose, 39% to 28%.<\/p>\n

People with a high school education or less opposed Mr. Bernanke 43% to 22%, while those with at least some college supported him 39% to 32%. People with a postgraduate education supported Mr. Bernanke 41% to 33%.<\/p>\n

In an October 1999 Journal\/NBC poll, 61% said Alan Greenspan<\/strong> should be reappointed while just 16% were opposed.<\/p>\n

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The split in the U.S. Senate on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s nomination for a second term mirrors a divide among the American public, according to the latest Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll. About 18% of those surveyed said they were “positive” about Mr. Bernanke, the same share that said they were \u0093negative.\u0094 Of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}