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CNN poll: More Americans would blame Republicans if country went off fiscal cliff
Washington Examiner ^ | November 26, 2012 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 11/26/2012 8:13:29 AM PST by Qbert

A new CNN poll shows that more Americans would blame Republicans if the country went off the fiscal cliff rather than President Obama.

45 percent of those polled by CNN said they would blame Republicans more; 34 percent said they would blame Obama.

But Republicans might have a political opportunity if they can convince Americans that President Obama is not working to cooperate with Republicans.

According to CNN, nearly half say Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with the Republicans, although seven in ten want him to compromise with the GOP.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; 2012polls; blame; congress; fiscalcliff; obama; taxandspend; taxhikes
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To: Glacier Honey
It sounds like we are joking,,I'm not and I don't you or many others today in FR are either.

Let 'er Rip. I am sick and tired of Congress using these PANIC scenarios to get what they want.

"TARP" left a very bad taste in my mouth, I will never forget.

Tell me where can I find this "Great Fiscal Cliff"? Where is it located? Sounds like a FUN place to visit.

81 posted on 11/26/2012 1:24:51 PM PST by annieokie
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To: Qbert

Lets see:

CNN’s poll

CNN says what every single day? “Republican Fault”

And one wonders why said poll would say this?

Of course - when public schools have been teaching liberalism for how many decades now?


82 posted on 11/26/2012 2:42:47 PM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: Qbert

Yep. In retrospect, the Romney campaign strategy was abhorrently bad. They played patty cake from July forward. They left so much on the table because they used a very simplistic message and repeated it over and over.

I think most of us felt it at time throughout. If it wasn’t for the 1st debate, we probably all would have been crying foul by mid October.

Our side needs to be naming each and every tax increase over the past four years every time the interview camera is on. There have been massive increases already, especially on the
rich’. Yet here we are with trillion plus dollar deficit. Tax increases solve nothing, other than sucking money out of the economy, slowing growth and causing money and jobs to find their ways overseas. Yet, our side is sitting here on the defensive and diddling around the edges.

Personally, I don’t give a rat’s a$$ about this fiscal cliff because nothing that comes from it will be much of an improvement, other than kicking our problems out a few months or a couple years. Our people and our government is not remotely serious about fixing the problems Washington has created.


83 posted on 11/26/2012 6:09:09 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Longbow1969

"I don't know what you're talking about. Pretty much everyone, even folks like Nate Silver, thought the Republicans would take the House by winning more than 50+ seats..."

I'll refresh your memory: you were babbling away about how the rapidly rising stock market in the fall of 2010 was "almost like an October surprise" for the Democrats that would cost the Tea Party big time. You can try your revisionist history but I still remember your argument because it was so laughably bad...

84 posted on 11/26/2012 7:47:50 PM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Qbert
I'll refresh your memory: you were babbling away about how the rapidly rising stock market in the fall of 2010 was "almost like an October surprise" for the Democrats that would cost the Tea Party big time.

I have no idea of the context or the point I was making in some random post from 2010. My track record of predictions is generally quite good because they are grounded in reality rather than wishful thinking.

The idea that we could "unskew" polls was just stupid. That ridiculous unskewedpolls website deserves to be laughed at. That so many conservatives bought into this nonsense was troubling. Calling out stuff like this so it doesn't happen again is a valuable exercise.

85 posted on 11/27/2012 6:46:57 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

"I have no idea of the context or the point I was making in some random post from 2010. My track record of predictions is generally quite good because they are grounded in reality rather than wishful thinking."

You were making that argument repeatedly- which is why I still remember it so well. You can go around tooting your own horn- but some of us remember. It was your same old predictable argument... the Republicans are going to lose... yawn.

"The idea that we could "unskew" polls was just stupid. That ridiculous unskewedpolls website deserves to be laughed at."

I never posted anything from that site, or even mentioned that site- so why do you keep leveling this accusation at me? (Btw, the fact of the matter is that there was a rash of bad polling this year from many, many outfits- don't take my word for it- Obama's own internal pollsters admitted it). But all Conservatives are the same, blah, blah, and they're extremists, and removed from reality, etc., and they deserve to be despised, don't they Longbow1969?...

86 posted on 11/27/2012 7:31:40 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Qbert
I never posted anything from that site, or even mentioned that site- so why do you keep leveling this accusation at me?

Because that is what my original comment on this thread was - a joke about how silly it was to think polls could be "unskewed". You're the one that responded to me when I posted that.

But all Conservatives are the same, blah, blah, and they're extremists, and removed from reality, etc., and they deserve to be despised, don't they Longbow1969?...

Oh stop it. You sound ridiculous.

87 posted on 11/27/2012 8:16:27 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

"Because that is what my original comment on this thread was - a joke about how silly it was to think polls could be "unskewed". You're the one that responded to me when I posted that."

I was responding only because you were misinterpreting my original comment. Reading comprehension, man.

88 posted on 11/27/2012 8:51:56 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Qbert
I was responding only because you were misinterpreting my original comment. Reading comprehension, man.

Listen sport, I responded to the original post with a joke about "unskewing" polls. It was a generic response. To which you attacked me personally by calling me a crypto-socialist and then a fraud. I did not attack you. Actually, I've been here a lot longer than you and I don't recall seeing your name or any of your posts. And you aren't getting anywhere acting like a jerk and attacking people personally because you don't agree with them.

89 posted on 11/27/2012 9:50:59 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

"Listen sport, I..."

Looking through some of your comments to other people on other threads, you seem like a very quarrelsome fellow. Some advice: chill out.

90 posted on 11/27/2012 7:41:33 PM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

$10 excise tax on movie tickets. $15 excise tax on DVDs. $2/track excise tax on music downloads. 20% gross revenue tax on movies. 15% excise on cable TV.


91 posted on 11/27/2012 7:45:01 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown are by desperate appliance relieved or not at all.)
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To: Jim Noble

Michael Moore thinks your tax ideas stink.


92 posted on 11/27/2012 8:38:07 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Qbert
Some advice: chill out.

When you attack other people and hurl insults you are usually going to get called out on it. Dial back the venom and you might find that people will be better able to tolerate you.

93 posted on 11/28/2012 8:23:49 AM PST by Longbow1969
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