Posted on 07/19/2011 10:07:14 AM PDT by Yankeedoodah
Who’s buying into White House scare tactics? Not Republicans, and not tea partyers either, says a new Pew Research Center poll gauging public reaction to President Obama’s predictions that certain doom looms if the debt ceiling isn’t raised by Aug. 2. Even Reuters points out that the “language of Armageddon”and “biblical rhetoric” has surfaced during the protracted political stalemate.
The method is not working with the intended audience, however: 65 percent of tea party supporters say the deadline is no major problem and the nation can sail past it; 53 percent of Republicans, 39 percent of the overall public and 28 percent of Democrats agree
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