Special guest today at the top of the 4 o’clock hour: Charles Taylor, Director of Pew’s Financial Reform Project.
PewFR just conducted a poll of 1,000 likely midterm voters on the importance of financial reform. From their findings:
When asked to rate key national priorities, 37 percent of Americans say that preventing another financial crisis and 27 percent of Americans say passing financial reform are two of the most important national priorities on which Congress and the president should focus – following only creating jobs and ensuring that bailouts provided to Wall Street banks are paid back.
“Americans understand that their jobs and personal economic situations are closely tied to the overall health and well-being of the financial sector,” said John E. Morton, managing director of Pew’s Economic Policy Group. “It’s clear that voters overwhelmingly favor financial reform that will protect consumers, create an early warning system, improve transparency and end the dangerous ‘Too Big To Fail’ dynamic. These results send a message that Congress should take action now – to fix the current system and to prevent another crisis down the road.”
The survey queried 1,000 likely voters in the 2010 midterm election. Nearly half (44 percent) believe that it is likely that the country will endure another financial crisis within the next three years. A report on the results is posted at www.pewfr.org.
We’ll find our from the project’s director himself, tonight, what this could mean for the upcoming elections.
