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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (210262)12/3/2012 12:45:29 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 543578
 
What's great is that bipartisan suicide will be blamed on the R's.

If “fiscal cliff” talks fail, public blames GOP 53%, Obama 29%

In a new WashingtonPost/PEW poll the public says it will blame Republicans, and not President Obama and Democrats, if the upcoming “fiscal cliff” talks should fail…

Even worse for the Republicans, they lose the poll in every demographic except “Republicans.” Independents, men, even southerners all blame the Republicans if the fiscal cliff talks fail…




To: Steve Lokness who wrote (210262)12/3/2012 2:15:12 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543578
 
The political angel of going "over the cliff" is an empirical problem. Only polls can answer the wisdom of that. I see that Wharfie has some polling later on that suggests the Reps are more likely to get the blame. Sounds like Krugman is right on the politics this time.


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