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Cost of Air Force 1 – Conservatives low in Polls

Cost of Air Force 1 – Conservatives low in Polls

The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering — $181,757 per hour. That’s the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president.
Estimates over the years based on government reports and independent number-crunching have always reflected a steep cost for presidential travel, but the figure provided by the 89th Airlift Wing appears to be far higher than any previously reported. It was first published in a report this week on presidential travel by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
“It’s astonishing. It’s far higher than any other … figure that’s been reported on. It’s very surprising, and of course it’s just a fraction of the overall cost involved with presidential travel,” said policy analyst Demian Brady, who wrote the study. http://fxn.ws/huMxqJ

The Conservatives are still leading, sitting at 31.5 per cent nationally. Support for the Liberals is at 29.1 per cent, the NDP are sitting at 27.2 per cent, the Green Party is at 5.9 per cent and the Bloc Québécois is at 5.2 per cent.
The results are from a Nanos national random telephone survey of 1,000 Canadian aged 18 years and older, conducted between Feb. 19 and 24. The results are accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Conservative support is at the lowest level in the Nanos tracking poll since August, 2009.
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