What Percent of Americans Do You Think Support...

[Person Man]

Abolishing the Electoral College
Legalizing All Drugs
U.S. Flat Tax
A National Sales Tax
Banning Breast Implants
Banning Trans Fat

[tpfkaw]

Yes-No-Unsure, my vote in bold.

Abolishing the Electoral College

20-30-50

Legalizing All Drugs

15-80-5

U.S. Flat Tax

40-45-15

A National Sales Tax

FairTax:

20-20-60

VAT:

20-50-30

Banning Breast Implants

5-80-15

Banning Trans Fat

10-75-15

[dead0man]

Abolishing the Electoral College=<30%  (a lot of people either don't understand why it is the way it is or if they do, are just assholes)
Legalizing All Drugs=<25% (finally, one of these I can get behind)
U.S. Flat Tax=<30% (I could support it if it's set up right, but not the way it's normally broached)
A National Sales Tax=<35% (same as above)
Banning Breast Implants=~5% (now that's just silly)
Banning Trans Fat=~20% (that's almost as silly)

[Phony Moderate]

Abolishing the Electoral College - 30%
Legalizing All Drugs - 20%
U.S. Flat Tax - 20%
A National Sales Tax - 15%
Banning Breast Implants - 10%
Banning Trans Fat - 10%

[courts]

Abolishing the Electoral College - <30% (a lot don't know what it is)
Legalizing All Drugs - <10%
U.S. Flat Tax - 20-30%
A National Sales Tax - ~40%
Banning Breast Implants - <10%
Banning Trans Fat - 20-30%

A lot of teabaggers have an unhealthy fixation on the unFAIR tax and of course plenty of liberals the idea of a VAT now so I factored that in.

[Redalgo]

Abolish Electoral College: 60% support, 35% oppose, 5% unsure or no opinion.*
Legalization of all drugs: 15% support, 80% oppose, 5% unsure or no opinion.**
Establishing the flat tax: 30% support, 65% oppose, 5% unsure or no opinion.
A national sales tax: 30% support, 50% oppose, 20% unsure or no opinion.
Ban on breast implants: 5% support, 90% oppose, 5% unsure or no opinion.
Ban on trans fat in food: 10% support, 80% oppose, 10% unsure or no opinion.

* Many don't fully understand how it works but public views are what they are.
** Although if it were just marijuana my impression is that it would be 50/50/0.

[opebo]

Abolishing the Electoral College - 30
Legalizing All Drugs -                     30
U.S. Flat Tax                                   30
A National Sales Tax                        10
Banning Breast Implants                  10
Banning Trans Fat                            10

[kohler]

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote is strong in virtually every state, partisan, and demographic group surveyed in recent polls in closely divided battleground states: CO-- 68%, IA --75%, MI-- 73%, MO-- 70%, NH-- 69%, NV-- 72%, NM-- 76%, NC-- 74%, OH-- 70%, PA -- 78%, VA -- 74%, and WI -- 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE --75%, ME -- 77%, NE -- 74%, NH --69%, NV -- 72%, NM -- 76%, RI -- 74%, VT -- 75%, and WY – 69%; in Southern and border states: AR --80%, KY -- 80%, MS --77%, MO -- 70%, NC -- 74%, and VA -- 74%; and in other states polled: CA -- 70%, CT -- 74% , MA -- 73%, MN – 75%, NY -- 79%, WA -- 77%, and WV- 81%.

[kohler]

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. Elections wouldn't be about winning states. Every vote, everywhere would be counted for and directly assist the candidate for whom it was cast. Candidates would need to care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing states.

In the 2012 election, pundits and campaign operatives already agree that only 14 states and their voters will matter under the current winner-take-all laws (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in each state) used by 48 of the 50 states. Candidates will not care about 72% of the voters-- voters in 19 of the 22 lowest population and medium-small states, and big states like California, Georgia, New York, and Texas. 2012 campaigning would be even more obscenely exclusive than 2008 and 2004. Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or care about the voter concerns in the dozens of states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. Policies important to the citizens of ‘flyover’ states are not as highly prioritized as policies important to ‘battleground’ states when it comes to governing.

The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes--that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

The Electoral College that we have today was not designed, anticipated, or favored by the Founding Fathers but, instead, is the product of decades of evolutionary change precipitated by the emergence of political parties and enactment by 48 states of winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution.

The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for president. It does not abolish the Electoral College. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action, without federal constitutional amendments.

The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers, in 21 small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in AR, CT, DE, DC, ME, MI, NV, NM, NY, NC, and OR, and both houses in CA, CO, HI, IL, NJ, MD, MA ,RI, VT, and WA . The bill has been enacted by DC, HI, IL, NJ, MD, MA, and WA. These 7 states possess 74 electoral votes — 27% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.

NationalPopularVote.com

[RI]

A lot more women than you'd think are not big fans of breast implants. They have a tendency to lead to back problems in the long run, and a not insignificant number get them removed. Whether that means that they want to ban them, I can't say, but it's not like everyone likes them.

Not to mention the not insignificant socially conservative population who dislikes such appeals to immodesty.

[Free Palestine]

A lot more women than you'd think are not big fans of breast implants. They have a tendency to lead to back problems in the long run, and a not insignificant number get them removed. Whether that means that they want to ban them, I can't say, but it's not like everyone likes them.

Not to mention the not insignificant socially conservative population who dislikes such appeals to immodesty.

Plus they always look pretty nasty.

And, isn't sacrificing your own comfort in order to appeal to men pretty much a cornerstone of the western perception of feminine beauty?

[Person Man]

Here are some more-

Science-

Tripling NASA's budget to get to Mars by 2019 ala 1961-1969

Support continuing funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Support funing for lab-grown meat

Supports Obama Space Plan- Privatize Low Earth Orbit and build a Heavy Lift Launcher to leave Earth orbit in 10 years, abandon Moon mission- try to go to an Asteroid by 2025.

Supports Bush Space Plan- Continue to design a new launch system to go back to the Moon by 2022.

Crime-

Support Constitutional Amendment allowing for the death penalty for Child Molestation

Support Constitutional Amendment allowing for the death penalty for 16 and 17 year olds

Contraband-

Support mandatory maximum prison time for non-violent Federal Gun Control Violators (illegal weapons, has a gun when on a federal, not a state, Do Not Carry list)

Support the policy of withholding financial aid to students who have been convicted of misdemeanor drug charges

[tpfkaw]

For-against-not sure/don't care

Science-

Tripling NASA's budget to get to Mars by 2019 ala 1961-1969

20-20-60

Support continuing funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

30-30-40

Support funing for lab-grown meat

5-5-90

Supports Obama Space Plan- Privatize Low Earth Orbit and build a Heavy Lift Launcher to leave Earth orbit in 10 years, abandon Moon mission- try to go to an Asteroid by 2025.

10-10-80

Supports Bush Space Plan- Continue to design a new launch system to go back to the Moon by 2022.

10-10-80

Crime-

Support Constitutional Amendment allowing for the death penalty for Child Molestation

60-30-10

Support Constitutional Amendment allowing for the death penalty for 16 and 17 year olds

50-40-10

Contraband-

Support mandatory maximum prison time for non-violent Federal Gun Control Violators (illegal weapons, has a gun when on a federal, not a state, Do Not Carry list)

20-20-60

Support the policy of withholding financial aid to students who have been convicted of misdemeanor drug charges

70-20-10

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I don't support banning breast implants, but if I owned a strip club I'd refuse to hire anyone with them.

[opebo]

A lot more women than you'd think are not big fans of breast implants. They have a tendency to lead to back problems in the long run, and a not insignificant number get them removed. Whether that means that they want to ban them, I can't say, but it's not like everyone likes them.

Not to mention the not insignificant socially conservative population who dislikes such appeals to immodesty.

The latter reason is the actual source of most opposition to breast implants.. that and general resentment by women of those who best them in the attractiveness competition.  The concern about 'safety' is just a cover story for envy and spite, as usual.

[Free Palestine]

A lot more women than you'd think are not big fans of breast implants. They have a tendency to lead to back problems in the long run, and a not insignificant number get them removed. Whether that means that they want to ban them, I can't say, but it's not like everyone likes them.

Not to mention the not insignificant socially conservative population who dislikes such appeals to immodesty.

The latter reason is the actual source of most opposition to breast implants.. that and general resentment by women of those who best them in the attractiveness competition.  The concern about 'safety' is just a cover story for envy and spite, as usual.

How unthinkable that a female would do something to benefit her own comfort and health.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Abolishing the Electoral College - 55%
Legalizing All Drugs - 15%
U.S. Flat Tax - 29%
A National Sales Tax - 15%
Banning Breast Implants - 17%
Banning Trans Fat - 26%