61% OPPOSE AUTO BAILOUT

A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies.


Auto industry executives testify before Congress.

Sixty-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey out Wednesday are dead set against the federal government providing billions of dollars in assistance for the automakers, with 36 percent favoring such a bailout.

The poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday, also indicates that a majority of Americans, 53 percent, don't think government assistance for the automakers will help the U.S. economy.

"Only 15 percent say that they would be immediately affected if the auto companies went bankrupt," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "Seven in 10 say that a bailout would be unfair to American taxpayers . . . . . . . . . . THIS JUST IN :DECEMBER 3-2008 . . . . . .USA OPINION POLL

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