Americans blame Republicans in Congress more than congressional Democrats or President Barack Obama for the current “fiscal cliff” crisis, as the deadline approaches for action to avert big tax increases and spending cuts, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Thursday.
When asked who they believed to be more responsible for the “fiscal cliff” situation, 27 percent blamed Republicans in Congress, 16 percent blamed Obama and 6 percent pointed to Democrats in Congress. The largest percentage – 31 percent – blamed “all of the above.”
A similar breakdown was found in response to questions about the economy. Asked who was responsible for the national unemployment rate, the poll found 23 percent chose Republicans in Congress, 16 percent said Obama and 7 percent said Democrats in Congress, while 32 percent picked “all of the above.”
The U.S. unemployment rate stood at 7.7 percent in November, according to Labor Department figures.
“Fiscal cliff” refers to the tax increases on nearly all Americans and the deep, automatic government spending cuts due to begin in January – possibly pushing the United States back into recession – if lawmakers do not take action.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans polled in the online survey said the impending “fiscal cliff” was not affecting their holiday spending.
The survey of 1,477 Americans, interviewed online, was conducted Dec. 23-27. The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
(Reuters)
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And all the people who answered were the typical unintelligent uninformed take take take obama zombie voter.
Do these losers know that the Republicans passed at least 3 budgets that went to the senate where Prince Harry Reid didn’t even bother bringing up for a vote?
Do these losers understand that OblamO could end this in a split second by immediately cutting his massive spending? Obama is like the CEO of the country and its up to the CEO to make sure his company is prosperous.
The problem is Obama HATES this country as it was founded. He despises anyone with money. All he wants to do is spread it around. The UssR tried that. If anyone should be blamed, its OblamO himself followed by each and every Demorat!
Isn’t it Bush’s fault? If he hadn’t lowered taxes “for the rich” then there wouldn’t be at a fiscal cliff today.
this is not a surprise as most American only believe what they are told in 10 second sound bites on the news. These people are not intelligent enough to understand that they are being manipulated by the liberal press.