McClatchy-Marist Poll: Americans see debt deal as bad for nation

[Better Believe It]

Poll: Americans see debt deal as bad for nation
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
August 8, 2011

It's not just the stock markets. The marketplace of public opinion also is turning thumbs down on the debt-ceiling deal, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

The poll found that Americans think the deal is bad for the country, bad for members of Congress who voted for it and bad for the poor, the middle class and the elderly. Americans think that the only ones whom the deal treated fairly were the wealthy and corporations.

"They're negative on the debt deal, negative on the outcome, negative on the process," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the survey.

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MAJOR POLL RESULTS

By 65-27 percent, they think it treated the elderly unfairly. That belief was found almost evenly across party lines.

By 63-29, they think it treated the poor unfairly. Independents felt the strongest, 69-26.

By 61-30, they think it treated the middle class unfairly. Republicans felt the strongest, 66-27.

By 69-28, voters support raising taxes on people with annual incomes of more than $250,000.

By 62-32 they support eliminating subsidies to oil and gas companies.

By 84-14 they oppose cuts in Medicare or Social Security.

By 50-46, they support cutting defense spending.

By 73-23 they oppose cutting Medicaid and entitlements.

[CreekDog]

1. Obama thinks it will help him win

even if it won't. :(

[TwilightGardener]

3. No, he doesn't. He knew this was a loser, he knew he was the first President

to have to go through this unnecessary "crisis" that he had to negotiate his way out of. This wasn't on his agenda.

[myrna minx]

2. K&R - It's maddening that the Repubs claim to have a mandate for this slashing and the WH claims

to be powerless against them.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. The pukes will say anything to get their way and the White House is complicit

Frustrating as hell, but no mystery unless you insist on believing that Obama's on our side.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. But, the real question is, Did this Glorious Achievent make it to The List?

[Warpy]

6. Polls like this are why I trust democracy

and they're also why the Koch heads are trying to decrease suffrage and rig elections. They know damned full well they are acting against the will of the people.

They'll be able to get away with it for a while. However, the longer they get away with it, the more violent the response will be when people have had enough.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. You got it. And for the FEEBLIES watching our words,

we do not foment violence or treason. Rather we simply predict what is likely to occur BECAUSE of Kochian policies and the adverse impact on so many people.

[FreakinDJ]

7. My Oh my - trully a surprise