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RE :”Poll: Majority would blame both sides equally if talks fail, By Meghashyam Mali - 12/13/12 07:50 AM ET
A new poll finds that a majority of voters would blame both President Obama and congressional Republicans equally if efforts to find a deficit deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” fail.
Fifty-six percent surveyed in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll say both sides would be responsible if a compromise is not reached. Nineteen percent would blame Obama and Democrats only, with 24 percent saying the GOP would be at fault.
But voters in the new WSJ/NBC poll also give the president a strong review in talks, with Obama holding a 53 percent approval rating. Forty-three percent disapprove of the president’s overall job performance.
On the issue of taxes, 59 percent say Obama received a mandate in the election to eliminate Bush-era tax rates for those making over $250,000 a year, with 36 percent saying he didn’t receive such a mandate.”

I saw this on cable yesterday too.
This is some good news, I think it is because there are no GOP members on TV saying “Shut it down” this time around.

Bohner looks like he is really upset about this on TV too, HA-HA,.

Will see how it plays out. Naturally I am not optimistic.

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Fifty-six percent surveyed in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll say both sides would be responsible if a compromise is not reached. Nineteen percent would blame Obama and Democrats only, with 24 percent saying the GOP would be at fault.

Even if a poll response represents good polling practices, and this one might qualify, it's tricky to translate that directly into a budget deal. As you yourself have pointed out, although some polls show that budget cuts should be the #1 priority, nobody, including the GOP, can find any significant cuts that are popular.

If polls asked "Would you be in favor of raising taxes by eliminating deductions X, Y, and Z," then "raising taxes" in that sense might not be so popular. Maybe that is what the GOP is trying to get at, but I doubt that would work very well, since, for one thing, polls don't ask the question like that.

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This is some good news, I think it is because there are no GOP members on TV saying “Shut it down” this time around.

Yes, that is an improvement.