Ohio voters see Wal-Mart as positive part of community

(Poll:Ohio over 50% dummy)

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/business-7/1166009944220370.xml&storylist=cleveland

12/13/2006, 6:34 a.m. ET
By MEREDITH HEAGNEY
The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio voters who live near a Wal-Mart say it has a positive effect on their community and criticism of the discount chain doesn't influence whether they shop there, a poll released Wednesday found.

Even 53 percent of registered voters in union households said Wal-Mart has had a positive effect on where they live, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll conducted by phone Dec. 4-10. But 40 percent of voters in union households also have an unfavorable opinion of the retail giant, compared to 31 percent who do not.

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has faced criticism from labor unions and politicians who have called on the private employer to provide higher wages and better benefits for its 1.3 million U.S. workers.

"Wal-Mart has become a political pinata for Democratic officials, including many 2008 presidential candidates," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn...

Probably the same people who complain about nothing being made in America anymore... duh.

Keep buying your "stuff" idiots.

or to make the connection between such "unrelated" things. Trust me. I live in Cincinnati, and we're not all like that, but that mentality is HUGH here (lol) and comes out many different ways.

we are sooooo doomed.

but the cynic in me couldn't help it.

have been devastated by right wing trade and economic policies- and yet people keep right on voting Republican. :shrug:

I can't tell you how many times we see rattle-trap cars/trucks, struggling down the interstate, and the only thing holding the jalopy together is a "W" sticker. And maybe one of those Jesus-fish things.

These poor sods will endlessly vote for their crooked masters who pass laws to make it legal to take their money, send their children off to war, and then double over with hilarity and mock their continued gullibility behind closed doors while swilling single malt and puffing $50 ceegars.

Go figger.

state office. Coincidence?

nt

jim

Everyday low prices, everyday low prices, everyday........................................

:rofl:

otherwise I would :cry:

much of which focuses on Ohio.

Fucking idiots! :nuke:

feel surrounded by idiots.

just wondering.

this pertains to Ohio, not the nation in general. After all, a cop gets killed and its regulated to state forums, but a poll is apparently a national concern. Thats all.

I think those folks are just happy to have somewhere they can at least afford to buy the basics of survival.

Ohio has the nation's highest rate of job loss

"In the suburbs, poverty increased from 7.1 percent to 9.4 percent, a jump mirrored by national trends, said Alan Benrube, a fellow and research director with Brookings' metropolitan policy program.

The increase gave the metropolitan area one of the fastest growing suburban poverty rates of communities studied in the report, he said. The number of children living in poverty also increased throughout the region, the study showed.

The study used 2005 federal income guidelines to define poverty, Benrube said, which is a yearly income of about $20,000 or less for a family of four. Benrube said the shift was probably due more to suburban residents suffering job losses and other economic setbacks than to low-income families leaving Cincinnati.

"Economies are regional in nature," he said. "With economic weakness affecting a lot of the Midwest, and especially Ohio in the last several years, people in the suburbs aren't immune to that. They're losing their jobs. They're seeing their hours cut back. They're seeing their salaries cut. And a lot of families are falling into poverty."

more: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061211/NEWS01/612110396/-1/CINCI

see also: http://www.policymattersohio.org/trade.htm