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How much do voters really know about Solyndra?

Chalk this up as the most depressing statistic you’ll see today (well, other than this one):

A majority of voters are unfamiliar with the failed solar panel maker Solyndra after a strong GOP push to make the federally backed company’s failure a political liability for President Obama, a new poll shows.

But voters that have heard of the California company, which collapsed after receiving more than a half-billion dollars in taxpayer-backed loans, have an overwhelmingly negative view.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 58 percent of registered voters are unaware or unsure of the company, which went bankrupt in 2011 after receiving an Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009 to manufacture advanced solar panels.

Twenty-five percent of respondents had a negative view of Solyndra, 15 percent were neutral and just 2 percent held a positive view on the subect, according to the survey conducted in late September.

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  • trmkc
    Posted on October 5, 2012 at 1:34am

    Where is the story about Nancy Pelosi’s brother in law, Ronald Pelosi’s $737 million grant for a wind farm in Tonapah, New Mexico? The Guardian ran in a while ago. I have never seen it in American media.

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  • XenaWP
    Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:01pm

    Progressives(socialist) have taken over the enviroment movement, and now climate change is just another code word for redistrubution of wealth. They dont really care about the enviroment, its just a means to the end.

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