I’ve only seen polls of “adults” on the “soak the rich” topic. And, since half of “adults” aren’t even registered to vote, I really don’t know why anybody pays attention to that sort of poll.
Sounds like pure manipulation of public opinion through misleading polling.
You havent seen the video clips taken at Republican Town hall meetings? like the one in WI last week where Ryan got yelled at? They are very similar to the Obama-care ones except instead of being mad Obama is cutting their medicare they are mad that House Republicans voted (non-binding) to eliminate the medicare entitlement. Republicans never ran on that, they refused to talk specifics of any cuts before the election and said they were defending medicare from cuts.
That is how you lose the tax battle, make it look like a competition between voters entitlements and ‘tax cuts on the rich’ when you ran on protecting the entitlement. It changes everything.