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Respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll were sharply split on the federal government's year-old, $60 billion rescue of General Motors and Chrysler LLC.

Respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll were divided on where the blame for late passage of the state budget should fall, but their low regard for lawmakers is clear. Just 1 percent approves of the state Legislature’s overall performance.

More than half of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say social media sites are not important to their work or professionally.

More than half of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll disapprove of President Barack Obama’s recent legislative wins—the financial regulations and health care reform bills—and nearly two-thirds disapprove of his overall job performance.

More than half of the respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say the outlook for Paychex Inc. after the departure of Jonathan Judge as president and CEO is positive.

More than four in 10 respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll expect the stock market to rise over the next 12 months.

Respondents to this week's Rochester Business Journal Daily Report Snap Poll say a performing arts center at Midtown Plaza would be a catalyst for development but the city and county should not help pay for it. See dozens of comments from readers.

Readers say a performing arts center at Midtown would be a catalyst for development, but the city and county should not pay for it.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents to this week's Rochester Business Journal Daily Report Snap Poll say voter approval should be required on the divisive issue of mayoral control of the Rochester City School District.

More than half of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll favor an excise tax on U.S. customer service calls transferred to foreign call centers.

A large majority of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say BP PLC—and not U.S. regulators—is responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent, readers disapprove of the government’s response to the oil spill.

More than half of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll would vote for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over three potential Republican opponents in the 2010 race for governor. See dozens of comments from readers.

Three-quarters of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll support offshore wind power on Lake Ontario. See dozens of comments from readers.

Rochester offers a bounty of special events each summer, and this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll asked readers to name their favorites. The plurality of respondents to this week's poll chose the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.

More than two-thirds of respondents to this week’s RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll favor Arizona’s new immigration law, which makes illegal immigration criminal by defining it as trespassing.