Poll: 49 percent support tax cut deal

[Roy Rolling]

Source: USA Today Gallup Poll

WASHINGTON — Americans are inclined to support the tax-cut deal negotiated by President Obama and congressional Republicans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, but the compromise hasn't boosted optimism about the prospects for bipartisan action to address the nation's problems.
Even as leaders in both parties predict the package will pass Congress, the public apparently views the process that reached it with some skepticism.

Forty-nine percent of those surveyed support passage of the deal — a plurality but not quite a majority — while a third oppose it and nearly one in five say they're not sure.

By an overwhelming 51%-20%, they say the handling of the tax issue has made them more pessimistic rather than more optimistic about the ability of the government to address the biggest problems facing the country.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-12-13-poll-tax-cut-deal_N.htm?csp=34news

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Geez Louise, pollsters just told us this morning that 69% supported this. I just polled my single-person office and 100% of respondents (me) say that using polls to gauge this issue is, apparently, not an exact science if not worthless.

[aquart]

1. I am completely and totally against it.

And nobody asked me.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. 69% support it, so stop saying that!

:D

Polls are always about the questions asked and who is asking them. You can get a pollster to create a poll that will say just about anything you want it to. Ask Frank Lutz or Meredith Chaiken.

[madrchsod]

3. i just read that on that democratic underground site! so...

it must be true!

that poll was a ...

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[valerief]

4. 99% support it. All you need to ask is, do you think President Obama should raise your taxes during

this recession? I'll bet 99% say no, so the RW media translates that to America Supports Tax Cuts.

[NeoConsSuck]

9. Let's just make it 1000%

and remove all doubt. These tax cuts and lowering the payroll tax is the greatest thing since sliced bread. While they eat cake, we'll eat the sliced bread.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. the media is once again catapulting the....

...bullshit. Pfft.

[denem]

6. 18% No opinion.

[mr_liberal]

7. Obama hurt his own deal in the minds of voters

by being so defensive abotu it and saying "hostage takers" etc...

He should have put a positive spin on it (like Clinton did) and he woudl have even better support in the polls.

still his approval numbers will go up after this. But for deals in the future, he needs to sell the deal instead of acting like he's mad about it.