Majority Back Cutting Off Funds for ACORN

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Voters believe Congress should cut off federal funding to the controversial community organizing group ACORN by 51 percent to 17 percent with 32 percent undecided, a verdict in sync with Thursday's overwhelming House vote to do just that.

A survey by Rasmussen Reports conducted Sept. 16-17 found that 70 percent of voters had been following the ACORN story very or somewhat closely, no doubt because of the now-famous video showing a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute getting advice from two employees on how to cover up the source of their income in seeking housing aid.

Sixty-seven percent of those polled had a somewhat or very unfavorable view of the group while 15 percent viewed it positively.

Fifty-seven percent believe that criminal investigations of ACORN underway in several states are the result of alleged illegal behavior while 20 percent attributed them to political motivations.

The national survey of 1,000 likely voters has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Filed Under: Polls, Poll Watch, Congress

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