NBC-WSJ Poll: Americans Oppose GOP Spending Cuts

[Trajan]

ah now polls dont count

Polls that ask about a plan that hasn't yet seen the light of day don't count.

i think it was about the general overview of where people are. Not a response to a plan not yet made public.

So to sit there and say its about the new Ryan plan, is quite dishonest.

and how long have they been in negotiations to pare down the budget for 2011 that the DEMS did NOT do last year? How many ongoing resolutions have their been in the last 7 weeks?


for the last 6-7 weeks...

 

[Trajan]

ah now polls dont count

polls always count, however this poll is from feb..hello. Its april 5th...

further every poll should be studied as to questions, how they are asked, who they are asking and the sampling quotients.

sometimes you have to go back a month in order to find a current poll.
It just works out that way till the next one. We dont do weekly like president approval ratings...etc...

The date is meaningless. a month or two doesnt change that much. Had this been 6 months to a year you would naturally have a point, unless it was the last poll of this nature to be taken.

see my last response, a lot has changed. congress is not working in a vacuum.

 

[Oddball]

ah now polls dont count

Polls that ask about a plan that hasn't yet seen the light of day don't count.

i think it was about the general overview of where people are. Not a response to a plan not yet made public.

So to sit there and say its about the new Ryan plan, is quite dishonest.

The "general overview" as defined by the pollsters.

Meaningless.

 

[Toro]

NBC-WSJ Poll: Americans Oppose GOP Spending Cuts

MSNBC is reporting the results of a NBC/WSJ poll that Americans are "adamantly opposed" to cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and k-12 education.

The survey of 1,000 adults (200 reached by cell phone) -- which was conducted Feb. 24-28 and has an overall margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points -- also listed 26 ways to reduce the federal budget deficit.

The most popular: placing a surtax on federal income taxes for those who make more than $1 million per year (81 percent said that was acceptable), eliminating spending on earmarks (78 percent), eliminating funding for weapons systems that the Defense Department says aren't necessary (76 percent), and eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries (74 percent).

The least popular: cutting funding for Medicaid, the federal-government health care program for the poor (32 percent said that was acceptable); cutting funding for Medicare, the federal-government health care program for seniors (23 percent); cutting funding for k-12 education (22 percent); and cutting funding for Social Security (22 percent).

Those numbers, GOP pollster McInturff says, "serve as a huge flashing yellow sign to Republicans ... if they are going to start to talk about changes to Medicare and Social Security.”
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That's funny. They took a poll during Feb 24-28, which is weeks before the budget proposal today.

Thanks for sharing!

This doesn't have anything to do with Ryan's budget. There have been several polls like this over the past year.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/148967-polls-on-deficit-cutting.html

And they are all the same - Americans want to cut the budget deficit but they don't want anything cut that affects them. They also don't want their taxes raised.

This deficit problem won't be fixed until people stop thinking like this. People have to understand that they are going to have to feel some pain, not expect everyone else but themselves to feel the pain.

 

[Mr Liberty]

best damn pie chart I have ever seen.

 

[Zander]

It's the spending stupid!!!!

 

[Oddball]

i think it was about the general overview of where people are. Not a response to a plan not yet made public.

So to sit there and say its about the new Ryan plan, is quite dishonest.

The "general overview" as defined by the pollsters.

Meaningless.

ah well, that must be it. They ask very simple questions, and they are meaningless.

Hey by all means leave if you find it meaningless. Go post pictures in Palin threads.

They are very simple questions, made up out of whole cloth about a spending cut plan that hasn't yet been released.

It's about as meaningful as a poll of fantasy football players about who is going to win the 2020 Super Bowl....That is to say not at all.

Now, why don't you go start an equally meaningless Palin thread?