Poll Watch: 58% Favor a Partial Government Shutdown Until Spending Cuts Are Passed
According to the latest Rasmussen Poll.
As Republicans and Democrats in Congress haggle over the budget, most voters would rather have a partial shutdown of the federal government than keep its spending at current levels.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of Likely U.S. Voters would rather have Congress avoid a government shutdown by authorizing spending at the same levels as last year. Fifty-eight percent (58%) says it’s better to have a partial shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending to cut.
I don’t think this is in the cards, since most voters don’t see passage of a budget as an emergency – an emergency worth extreme measures like a government shutdown.
So, there will be NO government shutdown but probably a series of continuing spending resolutions, since the GOP would rather see this issue come up every few months as we head into election season 2012.
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SELDEN
Tea Party/Multinational Motto = LET THEM EAT CAKE!
Michael Spurlock
That’s going to be hard to spin, especially since the majority polled also say they’ll put the blame where it belongs, on the Democrats.
Robin Renee' Wilson-Sauls
Isn’t bargaining where you can simply say no, but taking away all chances is simply taking away the right to ask?
celebs4truth
Nothing is EVER going to get accomplished, and the root of the problem is NEVER going to be understood until people actually start asking the right questions, and that is…Why is America facing nation wide austerity measures, and where did all our money go? Find out, or be doomed to repeat this over and over again.
celebs4truth
Nothing is EVER going to get accomplished, and the root of the problem is NEVER going to be understood until people actually start asking the right questions, and that is…Why is America facing nation wide austerity measures, and where did all our money go? Find out, or be doomed to repeat this over and over again.