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Recent polling suggests a shift in public support for raising the debt ceiling, challenging traditional Republican strategies and necessitating a new approach to avoid electoral consequences.
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The full transcript provides more context on the historical trends and political strategies related to the debt ceiling, offering a comprehensive analysis of the current situation.
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Well, howdy there, I don't know, people, it's Beau again.
So today, we're going to talk about
an incredibly interesting poll
that may change some dynamics up on Capitol Hill.
Recently, the Republican Party has decided to go
to an old standby when they want to generate
a little bit of controversy and try to demonstrate
that they are doing their part
and really sticking by conservative values,
they tend to go after the debt ceiling.
And this is something that has typically worked
for them in the past.
However, new polling suggests things might be different
this time around.
Back in 2011, only 24% of people supported
raising the debt ceiling.
36% of Democrats, 16% of Republicans, and 22% of Independents, 24% of voters.
That's low.
That's incredibly low.
Because of the lack of support for raising the debt ceiling, the Republican Party, well,
they always feel pretty safe about turning that into a campaign issue and sticking to
their guns on that. New polling from this month, 52% of Americans support raising the
debt ceiling, 79% of Democrats, 26% of Republicans, and 47% of independents. The Republican Party
cannot afford to upset 47% of independents. They are having trouble electorally as it
is. That is not a sound strategy. They may suddenly become a little bit more
interested in working out a deal and raising the debt ceiling without causing
a massive crisis in the process because what these numbers suggest is that if
If they cause a crisis or cause the country's credit to be downgraded or anything like that,
that they're going to be the ones held responsible at the polls.
It's also worth noting that contrary to the way things have normally gone,
46% of Americans support raising taxes to deal with the debt.
really high number. 50% support cutting programs and services. The problem is the
only thing that's really available for them to cut as far as the Republican
Party, Social Security, Medicare, stuff like that. Stuff that they know will not
sit well with voters. While the voter may say right now, yeah, cut those services,
cut those programs, when grandma's checks light, they're going to blame the
Republican Party. And Republicans know that. That's why they booed the proposal
from the Republicans at the State of the Union. This might change dynamics. If the
Republican Party is paying attention to anything right now, this should change
dynamics. They should look at these numbers and say this is not going to
play out the way it has in the past and start to become a little bit more
accommodating when it comes to trying to figure out exactly what needs to be done
to raise the debt ceiling. Everybody knows it's going to happen because
there's no way that in this session they're going to make cuts to get rid
of all of the deficit. So the debt ceiling will be raised. The only real
question left is how much the Republican Party thinks they can get away with
before raising it. It's one of those things where if they don't raise it they
crash the economy and they're invested. They may not have a problem with hurting
us commoners but they're not going to hit their own portfolios. The debt
ceiling is going to be raised. Now they just have to work out the deal. Anyway
It's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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