Cold Comfort: Poll: Barack Obama gets more credit in budget deal

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By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 4/11/11 1:09 PM EDT

Nearly six in 10 Americans say they back the budget deal reached by the White House and congressional Republicans late last week, and are giving a bit more credit to President Barack Obama than they are to members of Congress from either party.

Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed over the weekend for a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday said they approve of the deal that includes $38.5 billion in spending cuts through the rest of fiscal 2011, while 38 percent said they disapprove.

Support for the deal is stronger among Democrats — 66 percent of whom said they backed it — than it is among Republicans, 47 percent of whom said they support it. Fifty-six percent of independents said they’re in favor of the deal.

Overall, Americans give Obama and congressional Democrats more credit for making the deal happen, with 48 percent of those surveyed crediting them for the deal. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, get the credit from 35 percent of those surveyed. Another 11 percent credited both sides equally.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52927.html#ixzz1JF6aEYuv

[Kber]

1. Interesting

It doesn't exactly fit the political narrative of a "Republican victory" that I've been reading about.

Thanks for posting.