Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 1/20-23. Registered voters. MoE 3.1% (No trend lines)

"Which of the following statements best describes your opinion on the United States' current economic situation: corporate greed helped lead to the current crisis and these practices need to be reined in to fix our economy - or - now is not the time to constrict corporations while we are trying to get our economy back on track?"

        Rein in     Now is not    Not sure
        practices   the time
        to fix      to constrict
        economy     corporations  

All        59           33            8
Women      67           25            8
Men        51           43            7
Dem        80           15            5
Rep        35           54           10
Ind        59           32            8
White      56           36            8
Black      71           20            9
Asian      59           31           10
Latino     67           30            4
Tea Party  37           57            6
Non-TP     67           27            6
18-29      57           29           14
30-45      57           37            6
46-65      63           32            5
65+        57           34            9
Northeast  70           25            5
Midwest    58           34            8
South      50           40           10
West       61           32            6
$0-30K     63           28            8
$30-$50K   58           35            7
$50-$75K   63           29            8
$75-$100K  55           40            6
$100K+     57           34            9

No surprise that the chief proponents of keeping the corporate world unleashed are overlapping categories of Republicans and Tea Partyers. But more than a third of both say greedy practices should be reined in. There are some surprises elsewhere in the poll. While big gaps exist between various demographic segments, as you can see, a majority of every geographical region, every age group, both sexes, all racial groups and every income cohort wants more corporate regulation. In most cases, it's a significant majority.

Such data will, of course, be less than a gnat's bite to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which seeks to overturn every newly passed financial regulation it possibly can, as Kevin Bogardus recently reported. We can expect the hilariously named chamber ally, the Committee for Truth in Politics, to pour hundreds of millions into a campaign to get business out from under the boot heel of allegedly burdensome regulations. They'll make the usual phony claim that their special interests represent the general interest. Their biggest target remains the best thing to emerge from the Great Recession, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. But if the CFPB didn't exist they'd be after something else. Years ago it was "burdensome" truth-in-lending, truth-in-advertising and food-labeling laws. It's remarkable they aren't fighting to make rear-view mirrors and turn-signals optional.

The poll indicates that the American public doesn't agree with this unfettered corporation approach. Potent data for any Democrat who cares to make use of them.