Fox News

Fox Poll: 47 Percent At Least Somewhat Concerned Occupy Wall Street Will Turn Into 'Street Riots'

Kyle Leighton | October 29, 2011, 9:15AM

Well, this is one way to win the message war.

Fox News is on a roll with their latest round of polling -- the news network has been releasing bits of data over the week, and on Friday they came out with some new gems. Those crazy kids braving the cold in Zuccatti Park certainly are something.....but what exactly? Fox wanted to find out, so they asked the following question: "How concerned are you that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations will eventually turn into street riots?"

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Affordable Care Act

Kaiser: Health Care Reform Favorability At New Low

Kyle Leighton | October 28, 2011, 9:03AM

A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with its lowest ever level of support in their polling, a huge shift from September, when Americans' view of the new health care reform law ran nearly even at 41 percent favorable versus 43 unfavorable. The October poll showed that 51 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view, against 34 percent who see it positively.

Kaiser has tracked the popularity of the new law since it was passed, and it's been fairly popular some past surveys: in June of 2010, 50 percent of Americans liked what they saw with only 35 percent disliking it. But for the most part, the ACA favorability numbers have remained in the 40 percent range on either side.

Of course, many of the provisions actually in the health care law haven't been implemented yet. Kaiser has a very handy breakout of what's currently in effect by the law's timeline and the areas of policy that each provision effects here. For instance, a majority of the insurance provisions have not yet gone into effect, including major (and some might say the MOST important) reforms like guaranteed availability of insurance and essential health benefits, neither of which will happen until 2014.

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Occupy Wall Street

'Bipolar Inequality': Did Americans Sign Up For This?

Kyle Leighton | October 25, 2011, 6:02AM

For the past few weeks, the questions about Occupy Wall Street have been about its direction and policy positions.

"Where are the protesters taking this thing?" media-types ask. "What are their demands?" people want to know.

The real question? Why are we trying to blast past the reason that people are down at Zuccotti Park, or in Madrid's main square, or on the streets of Tokyo? -- A combination of high unemployment (and maybe even moreso, underemployment), income inequality and easy access to the offending economic data has made people angry enough to get out and protest.

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