The key statistic is this:
“85 percent support increasing taxes on the wealthy”
The typical Obama voter doesn’t want to pay taxes and doesn’t want to cut spending. They think that all the problems can be solved by taxing the wealthy.
This formula won’t work of course because the wealthy will just move their money offshore. Tax revenue will not keep pace with the rise in entitlements and insolvency will be just around the corner. Just ask the Greeks.
Of course the typical 0bama voter doesn’t want to pay taxes, they want others to pay them, but they do want to have it all. They do have to learn that they can not have it all and that they have to give in.
Glad someone got to this before me. But you know this statistic shows that its much worse than you put it (for the GOP in this current standoff).
The 85% are not all Obama voters, his margin was much smaller than that. That means even some Romney voters want this..
Poll this : “Would you rather have the House GOP extent tax cuts for the ‘middle class’ right NOW or hold out and not extend them unless they get them for ‘the wealthly’ too, and medicare cuts at the same time to cut the deficit?”
Obama is looking at internal polls phrased like this.
You know how this ends...
“A survey of 800 Obama voters, conducted last month by Benenson Strategy Group for the moderate Democratic think tank Third Way and shared first with POLITICO, finds that 96 percent believe the federal deficit is a problem and that 85 percent support increasing taxes on the wealthy.”
It is 85% of Obama voters