[IP] WSJ Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell
Title: WSJ Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell
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From: Barry Ritholtz <ritholtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:10:02 -0500
To: <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: WSJ Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell
Hey Dave,
By now, everyone knows that FCC Chair Michael Powell announced his resignation yesterday, effective in March of this year. In addition to reporting on the event, the Wall Street Journal ran an online poll on the Chairman's tenure.
WSJ subscribers can see the results here:
http://discussions.wsj.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=wsjvoices&tid=3404&vote=5&submit=Vote
I took a quick screen shot of the poll results -- if you don't have a WSJ subscription, you can see the results here:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/01/wsj_poll_gives_.html
Surprisingly, the typically conservative WSJ readers overwhelmingly gave the deregulator turned crusading moralist an "F." Over half gave him very poor marks -- 39% of the over 1000 voters gave the Chairman a failing grade --twice as many who gave him an "A" -- while 18% awarded him a "D."
While these polls are notoriously unscientific, I was surprised to see over half (57%) of the voting WSJ readerswere apparently none to impressed with the Chairman.
Regards,
Barry L. Ritholtz
Chief Market Strategist
Maxim Group
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New York, NY 10174
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