Wow: Is Debt Ceiling Fix Essential? 47% Yes, 39% No

[dkf]

Partisans Dug in on Budget, Health Care Impasse
Is Debt Ceiling Fix Essential? 47% Yes, 39% No

Nearly a week into the first government shutdown in more than 17 years, most Americans express frustration and concern about the situation. Yet on the core issue dividing Republicans and Democrats in Washington – whether cuts or delays to the 2010 health care law should be part of any budget deal – there is little support for compromise among members of either party.

http://www.people-press.org/2013/10/07/partisans-dug-in-on-budget-health-care-impasse/

39% of the population doesn't care if we raise the debt ceiling. I am flabbergasted

[safeinOhio]

1. 80% of that 39%

don't vote either.

[ProSense]

2. Wow,

The survey also finds that Republicans are taking more blame for the shutdown than the Obama administration, but only by a slim margin. By 38% to 30%, more say that Republicans are to blame for the government shutdown than the Obama administration; 19% volunteer that both sides are equally to blame. Two weeks ago, about as many said they would blame Republicans (39%) as the Obama administration (36%) if the federal government shut down.

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With the nation rapidly approaching its borrowing limit – possibly as soon as Oct. 17, according to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew – 47% say it is “absolutely essential that the federal debt limit be raised to avoid an economic crisis.” Yet roughly four-in-ten (39%) are skeptical saying “the country can go past the deadline for raising the debt limit without major economic problems.”

Opinion about raising the debt limit was more evenly divided in July 2011, a few weeks before the last major showdown over the issue. At that time, 40% viewed a debt limit increase as absolutely essential in order to avoid a crisis, while nearly as many (39%) said it would not pose major problems.

...Republicans' BS is backfiring.

Obama's number's improving, check!

Seven-point jump in the importance of raising the debt ceiling since the last time Republicans took it hostage, check!

More red flags for GOP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023803422

[dkf]

3. So the 39% is basically the same people.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. People are monumentally under educated and over propagandized. n/t

[dkf]

5. Who is propagandizing the idea the debt ceiling is a nothing event?

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. The constant Republican Mantra that we should fear the debt, lower the debt,

that debt is a clear and present danger, that the government is just like you average household budget or even a business budget is propaganda that teaches a false view of the world. People have not only been encourage to think in simplistic terms, but they are propagandized with a false view.

Rand Paul and another Republican are on record saying that not raising the debt ceiling is no big deal.

[dkf]

8. Are they advocating default or other means?

[ladjf]

7. This this poll is valid, we are indeed a stupid group. nt