Six in 10 Americans (61 percent) say they are concerned that they, a friend or a relative may lose a job because the employer is moving that job to a foreign country, according to a ‘Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing’ released last week. According to the poll, 41 percent of the respondents say they are “very concerned” about outsourcing, and another one in five (or 20 percent) say they are “somewhat concerned.”

The survey, according to a press release, is based on telephone interviews with 1,005 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted from March 5-7 and telephone interviews with 1,005 nationals, aged 18 or older, conducted between March 8-11. For results based on the total sample size one could say with 95 percent confidence that the margin or error is 3 percentage points, the release added.

Nineteen percent of the respondents said they were “not too concerned,” and the remaining 19 percent said “not at all concerned.”

The poll also revealed that six in 10 Americans say that the issue of sending U.S. jobs to foreign countries will be very important when they decide their votes for president.

Another four (27 percent) say it will be “fairly important.”

The question posed was: “Please tell me how important the economic issue of keeping American jobs from going overseas will be in deciding your vote for president. Will it be very important, fairly important, not too important, or not al all important?”

The chief economist for Gallup, Dr. Dennis Jacobe, said Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan raised many eyebrows on Wall Street by coining the phrase “irrational exuberance,” and added that his new catchphrase appeared to have become “palpable unease.”