Poll: Tea Party Voters Oppose Cuts To Medicare, Social Security
by Karl Singer, thinkprogress.org -- 11/18/2011
Newsflash:
A new McClatchy-Marist Institute for Public Opinion poll shows 81 percent of voters oppose major cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
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Even supposedly anti-government Tea Party supporters opposed the cuts by a 76-22 margin.
Who the HELL is Obama trying to make happy?
Grover drown-the-guvmint Norquist?
Newsflash! That's what the Overwhelming Majority want too.
New Polling Says Overwhelming Majority Wants Social Security Left Alone
by Evan McMorris-Santoro, TPMDC, talkingpointsmemo.com -- May 23, 2011,
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Fresh polling from Ohio, Missouri, Montana and Minnesota published first by TPM show voters in the states overwhelmingly oppose any cuts to the Social Security entitlement program, even in the name of reducing the national debt. The coalition of progressive groups which sponsored the survey say the polls send a clear message to the Democratic Senate incumbents up for reelection in each state:
cut Social Security and you’ll incur the wrath of an angry electorate.
Public Policy Polling (D) conducted the polls, which were sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy For America, MoveOn.org and CREDO Action. All four groups are strongly opposed to making cuts to Social Security, which some -- including President Obama’s debt commission -- have said are necessary to put the government’s fiscal house in order for the future.
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The results (each poll surveyed more than a thousand people has a margin of error of about 3%):
In order to reduce the national debt, would you support or oppose cutting spending on Social Security, which is the retirement program for the elderly?
Ohio: 16% support, 80% oppose
Missouri: 17% support, 76% oppose
Montana: 20% support, 76% oppose
Minnesota: 23% support, 72% oppose
And here's a Poll from
this month:
Cutting Social Security and Medicare? That's the 'Middle'
by Peter Hart, fair.org -- Apr 08, 2013
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But who exactly wants to cut Social Security and Medicare? Not many people, according to this recent Washington Post poll:
Just 17 percent supported cutting Medicare benefits, and 21 percent said the same for Social Security. These are policy ideas that never poll very well. But for elite media the "middle" is where brave politicians go in order to slash benefits for everyone else.
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Who the HELL is Obama trying to make happy?
The ghost of Ronald bust-the-unions Reagan?
Maybe then, he should ask California voters what they want too?
(any guesses, folks?)
Newsflash! It's not just Liberals and Progressives that OPPOSE cutting Medicare and Social Security --
it's damn near everyone!
So DC triangulators -- Quit punching hippies ... and start thinking about the Ads the GOP is already working on:
"Democrats want to Cut YOUR Social Security ... (not us.)
Obama put it on the table ... (not us.) We didn't even ask for it. Honest."
... and they'd be right.
It's your padded-chair future on the line, pols. Get a clue. Take a Poll, already.
(It's not called "the 3rd rail of politics" without good reason.)