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By Jon Cohen, Washington Post, December 13, 2010; 12:00 PM
About seven in 10 Americans back the tax deal negotiated last week by President Obama and congressional Republicans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The high bipartisan support for the package masks more tepid public approval for some of the main components of the agreement that comes before a key Senate vote this afternoon....
A slender 11 percent of those polled back all four of the deal's primary tax provisions.....
But put all four items together, and 69 percent of all Americans support the package. Large majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents alike favor the agreement....
Comments
Seems like the majority likes that whole compromising thingie--the way it works where you get some things you like and the other guy gets some things he likes but you don't like. Instead of gridlock. On economic issues at least.
Charlie Cook's Dec. 7 column seems related: It's the economy, stupids, you were supposed to be focusing on it like a laser beam:
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:03pm
Artsy, thanks for that link. Whether he should have delayed healthcare will continue to be one of the great debates. And could he have gotten the necessary stimulus if he had concentrated on that instead? There's only so much stimulus you can get in 18 months via infrastructure. As for a WPA, which in my mind is the thing which was really needed, there is no way he would have gotten it.
by Oxy Mora on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:15pm
Well, first, I happen to think it's a dumb thing to think, because reform of our health care situation is crucial to our long term economic health. And if they had done nothing business and individuals would have been bitching about the rising costs and how nobody cares. But I suspect he's right,. It wouldn't have been that hard to solve, all you had to do was keep messaging that you are fixing health insurance for economic purposes.Which they didn't do very well. Bill Clinton did it as a new president, I think even before he was inaugurated there were summits with business about health care costs killing them, and I recall he just kept saying the laser beam line over and over so much that there were parodies of it. People understood back then that it was an economy issue, now apparently they don't, at least not the way it was approached.
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:24pm
The messaging against it was extremely effective. I'm reading :Deadly Spin", a tell all by ex-insurance PR guy Wendell Potter. How they marginalized Michael Moore is unbelievable. For some hundreds of thousand dollars in PR they had every news outlet in the country framing Michael Moore and "Sicko" in exactly the words and phrases they provided. Same with the health care bill.
by Oxy Mora on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:48pm
LOL, USA Today/Gallup concludes nearly the opposite:
I think mebbe I should just let poll geeks like Articleman handle commentary on this one...
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:16pm