In a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, a majority of Americans, 56 percent, expressed a negative view of the country's political system.
For example, in a 2009 survey that he co-authored, academic agricultural biologists expressed a negative view, on balance, of the effects of intellectual property rights on their access to biological research tools, and said this hindered progress in their discipline.
However, perhaps because Florida has been particularly affected by the housing crisis, just 28 percent said they had a positive view of the consultant work that Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, did for a government-sponsored mortgage corporation, and 52 percent expressed a negative view.
But the group is deeply unpopular with people in households without guns, who were twice as likely to have a negative view of the N.R.A. as a positive one: 41 percent of them expressed a negative view of it, while only 20 percent expressed a positive one.
Those who had heard of a chief executive or chief financial officer refusing to return other analysts' calls, because they had recently downgraded the stock or expressed a negative view, were much less likely to cut the company's rating in response to unexpectedly weak profits.None of this is outright bribery.
Despite the lack of convincing evidence to show that generics are harmful, the study's co-author Dr. William Shrank wrote that among the 43 editorials he reviewed, more than half "expressed a negative view of generic-drug substitution".
"About four-in-ten Americans (43%) say they have a favorable opinion of Muslims, while 35% express a negative view.
Although he credits the production for "getting its science lesson across in a superficial way", he expresses a negative view of the narration, remarking that "at times Ed [Bishop] comes across like a presenter of one of those old schools programmes from the 70s, just imparting a string of dry facts".
Thus, the students had no reason to fear consequences of expressing a negative view.
In the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, 54percentt of independents expressed a negative opinion of the Affordable Care Act, while 42percentt had a positive view.
