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Thursday, July 14, 2011
National polll: Voters would blame GOP over Obama in debt limit battle
American voters would be more likely to blame Republicans than Democratic President Barack Obama if the debt limit is not raised, although they don’t think much of the way the president is handling the economy.
Those are two key findings in a national Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday as Obama and congressional Republicans continue a standoff on the best way to raise the government’s credit limit.
Here’s what the poll found on the debt limit question:
Voters would blame Republicans over Obama, 48-34 percent, if the limit is not raised.
Voters said, 67-25 percent, that an agreement to raise the debt limit should include tax hikes for the wealthy and corporations, not just spending cuts.
Voters said, 45-37 percent, that Obama’s proposals to raise revenues are “closing loopholes,” not “tax hikes.”
Voters also said, 57-30 percent, that the president’s plans would impact the middle class, not just the wealthy.
On the broader question of the economy, voters disapproved, 56-38 percent, of the way the president is handling the economy. By a 45-38 percent margin, however, they said they trusted the president more than congressional Republicans to handle the economy.
Also, the president’s approval rating was 47 percent approval, 46 percent disapproval, unchanged from a June 9 survey.
“The American people aren’t very happy about their leaders, but President Barack Obama is viewed as the best of the worst, especially when it comes to the economy,” Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling institute, said in a press release.
The poll was based on 2,311 telephone interviews with registered voters conducted by live interviewers over land lines and cell phones from July 5 to Monday, July 11. The margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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