[hindsightbias]

Difficult to say what the will of the people was on TARP as it changed week to week depending on what the stock market had done that day.

But three days later they were for it before they were against it:

https://www.astrid-online.it/static/upload/protected/GALL/GA...

On the draft, that wasn't a new law. Selective Service was probably a 1940s law. A majority didn't think the war was a bad idea until 1968 and a majority supported Nixon pretty much to the end regardless of the reimagining that hippies were ever a majority.

https://time.com/archive/6875220/a-time-louis-harris-poll-th...