{"id":16444,"date":"2012-10-30T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/majority-says-auto-bailout-was-mostly-good-for-economy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:42:24","slug":"majority-says-auto-bailout-was-mostly-good-for-economy","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/10\/30\/majority-says-auto-bailout-was-mostly-good-for-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Says Auto Bailout Was Mostly Good for Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a survey earlier this year, a majority of Americans (56%) said the government loans made to GM and Chrysler in the midst of the financial crisis were mostly good for the economy, while 38% said they were mostly bad. In October 2009, almost a year after the loans were announced, public opinion was reversed: Just 37% said the loans were good, while 54% said they were bad.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Views of the auto bailout have grown more positive among nearly all groups. In February 2012, Republicans were essentially divided over the auto loans (44% mostly good for the economy, 52% mostly bad). In 2009, 70% of Republicans thought they had a negative effect on the economy while just 23% said they were mostly good for the economy.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independents also had negative perceptions of the auto loans in 2009 (33% mostly good, 59% mostly bad), but opinions earlier this year were more positive than negative (54% vs. 40%). And while about half of Democrats (53%) said the loans were good for the economy in 2009, that number had risen to 72% this February.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opinion about the loans to General Motors and Chrysler were particularly positive in the Northeast and Midwest in the 2012 survey. 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