Poll: Voters Favor More Financial Institution Regulation

By a margin of 50-37 percent, consumers favor increasing government regulation of financial institutions. That's according to a recent Quinnipiac University National Poll conducted February 2 through 6. The was conducted among 1,155 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. Live interviewers called landlines and cell phones. Other interesting consumers opinions from the poll include:

Americans say 2-1 that President Trump should:

not cut regulations on businesses or to combat climate change;
not repeal Obamacare
not build a wall on the border with Mexico
not restart the Keystone XL or the Dakota Access pipelines

60% of those polled support "renegotiating major trade deals with other countries, even if it means paying more for the products you buy,"

89% support increasing federal spending for roads, bridges, mass transit and other infrastructure.

But voters oppose 59-38% building a wall along the border with Mexico. Opposition to the wall rises to 63-35% if the U.S. has to pay for it.

A total of 72 percent of American voters are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about climate change. Only 17 percent of voters say the U.S. is "doing enough to address climate change," while 18 percent say the U.S. is "doing too much," and 59 percent think "more needs to be done to address climate change."

Voters say 56-33% that U.S. Senate Republicans were wrong to prevent for 10 months a vote on President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. But these same voters say 65-25% that Senate Democrats should allow a vote on the new Gorsuch nomination.

American voters don't believe, 61-28%, that 3 to 5 million non-citizens voted in the 2016 presidential election. The biggest problem in presidential elections is voter suppression, 33% of voters say, while 30% say voter fraud is the biggest problem and 29% point to outside interference.

Read more from the poll.

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