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Finally, The Debt Ceiling Message Getting Through

07-19-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell

The polls about raising the debt ceiling have been discouraging. It seemed that too many people just didn’t understand the issue enough to make an intelligent choice on a poll. Well, that’s finally changed.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, being released today, shows that 55% of all Americans finally understand that not raising the debt ceiling would be a problem, 63% of Democrats, 59% of Independents and even 47% of Republicans. On the flip side, 18% say not raising the debt ceiling would have no impact on us and 33% of Tea Partiers feel it’s no problemo.

The “should we/shouldn’t/don’t know enough” numbers are still discouraging, being practically dead even for the three choices. 

There is a margin of error of 3.1% on this poll of 1,000 adults.

So, anyone want to make book on how long the Republicans can ignore these numbers?

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