l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 Friday, September 30, 2011
Federal bailout funding may have prevented General Motors from going through
a normal bankruptcy process, but it has come at a significant price in
terms of reputation and potential buyers.
Fifty percent (50%) of American adults are less likely to buy a GM car
because of the bailout. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey
finds just four percent (4%) are more likely to buy from the company that
critics refer to as Government Motors. Forty-two percent (42%) say the
bailout has had no impact on their buying plans one way or the other. (To
see survey question wording, click here).
The flip side of the data is that 51% are more likely to buy from Ford
simply because it did not accept bailout funding. Twelve percent (12%) are
less likely to buy from Ford, and 34% say the bailout has had no impact.
Twenty-five percent (25%) of adults say they or someone in their family
avoided buying a GM car because of the bailout. Again, Ford is on the other
side of a great divide. Nineteen percent (19%) say they or someone in their
family bought a car from Ford because it did not take bailout money.
The bad news for GM is that these findings have changed little from a year
ago, so negative perceptions of the bailout linger despite the repayment of
a substantial portion of the money.
The national survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on September 25-26, 2011
by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage
points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports
surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology.
In June 2009, 17% of Americans though it was a good idea to protest the
government bailout of GM by boycotting the company and refusing to buy its
cars.
Ford recently ran an ad featuring a car buyer who said he "wasn't going to
buy another car that was bailed out by our government." The Detroit News
reported that the company pulled the commercial “in response to White
House questions (and, presumably, carping from rival GM).” However, others
said that despite calls from the White House, “there was not any pressure
to take down the ad."
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans are less likely to buy from GM,
along with 35% of Democrats and 47% of those not affiliated with either
major party.
That partisan divide is similar to data released earlier showing that Ford
is viewed more favorably than either GM or Chrysler. Prior to the bailouts,
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