GALLUP: Only 38% (58% of Dems, 33% of Inds, 26% of Repugs) support debt ceiling agreement

[jefferson_dem]

More Americans Oppose Than Favor Debt Ceiling Agreement
Americans are twice as likely to think it will make economy worse rather than better

by Jeffrey M. Jones

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are more likely to oppose (46%) than favor (39%) the agreement President Obama and Congress reached to raise the federal debt ceiling. Majorities of Democrats and liberals favor the agreement, while conservatives and Republicans largely oppose it.



The results are from an Aug. 2 USA Today/Gallup poll conducted the night after the bill was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Obama. This concluded weeks of tense negotiations to raise the amount of money the government could legally borrow by the Treasury Department's Aug. 2 deadline or face the United States' possibly defaulting on its obligations.

Americans are quite pessimistic that the debt ceiling agreement will have a positive impact on the United States' debt situation. Twenty percent view it as a "step forward" in addressing the situation, while roughly the same percentage, 22%, say it is a "step backward." Half think it will have little impact, describing it as neither a step forward nor a step backward.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/148802/Americans-Oppose-Favor-Debt-Ceiling-Agreement.aspx?version=print

[demosincebirth]

1. If the republicans oppose it, then , I guess, I must be for it. nt

[CakeGrrl]

2. Dems approve most of all, eh?

Maybe those are the Dems who didn't take Boehner at his word when he said he got 98% of what he wanted and were subsequently licking his boots as "tough negotiator" compared to the President.

Good to know someone's thinking clearly.

[marlakay]

3. I wonder how many of the dems were paying attention

like us?? or if they just called people who voted only and support obama and trust him...

[CakeGrrl]

11. Is it that hard to believe that DU doesn't represent the mainstream? -nt

[Dawgs]

19. No. It's not hard to believe that many Democrats are uninformed. n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Ask yourself this....

Would 58% of Dems support the exact same deal if GWB was President?

[CakeGrrl]

10. GWB got his clean debt limit raises.

If this obstructionist Teabag-infested Congress had instead done its job, we wouldn't BE here.

That's all they needed to do.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Yes he did

But, would 58% of Dems have supported this current debt ceiling deal if GWB was President?

[CakeGrrl]

14. Ask them. And if GWB had invoked the 14th in response to no deal,

Would the same crowd that advised Obama to do so have wanted to impeach GWB?

[targetpractice]

4. Do folks assume "Independents" are "centrists"?

I think that would be a bad assumption... I supposed anyone dissatisfied with Democrats or Republics could call themselves Independent.

Since 50% of Independents don't like this right-leaning bill... then maybe they are more liberal than assumed?

[jefferson_dem]

5. These are not the same.

Independents do not claim affiliation with a political party. "Centrists" may also be characterized as "moderate". That is, they do not claim a "liberal of "conservative" ideological orientation. Often times centrists/moderates are also independents but could they could also be either Democrats or Republicans. Gallup has it right by separating party and ideology.

[targetpractice]

12. Thanks... My bad...

For some reason I only read the first three lines of the survey results... If I'd been more patient and read the entire table, I would've answered my own question. ;-)

Thank you very much for the reply, tho. :-)

[last_texas_dem]

6. I wonder what percentage (supporters or opponents)

could identify anything about the deal besides the fact that it raised the debt ceiling? IIRC, a majority of Americans were opposed to even doing that, so the heavy opposition to the deal, even regardless of what the deal involved, doesn't seem all that surprising.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Probably about 98% or more don't know what the hell is in the deal.

[DCBob]

9. Repubs think they have been had again.. and Progressives think just the opposite.

and the rest of us know the truth.

[TheKentuckian]

15. Yeah, that further crippling demand and contraction are wise.

God bless Herbert Hoover!

:patriot:

Partisan idiots that will vote to cut their own throats and sabotage the nation into a malaise as far as the eye can see aren't restricted to the moronic TeaPubliKlans.

Just as stupid and feckless but thankfully less racist.

[CakeGrrl]

16. Primary challenges aren't a good idea, are they?

:hi:

[TheKentuckian]

17. That is the system.

[DFLforever]

18. I think what the Democrats are approving

is the rise of the debt ceiling.

While most of the Repubs are opposed to it.

I doubt it's much more complicated than that.

[treestar]

20. Do they even know what is in it?

Do they realize the default would have caused terrible problems? IMO the average American is too uninformed for their opinion to be convincing.