Hot Air links to a new Diageo/Hotline poll finding “Decreased Confidence in Stimulus Spending and Concerns Over Deficit; Double-Digit Increase in Percentage of Voters Saying Country Is On the ‘Wrong Track.’”
Read the whole report of the poll results; they’re fascinating. I was particularly struck by the following:
it is clear that concerns over the prospect of greater deficits trump concerns over economic recovery. When given the choice, voters would prefer a slower economic recovery that incurs smaller deficits than a quicker economic recovery with greater deficits. Specifically, 71% of voters say they would choose a slower economic recovery with a lower deficit, compared with 23% of voters who say they would prefer a quicker recovery with a higher deficit. [Emphasis added]
Instead of limiting the choice to those two theoretical alternatives, I wonder what the results would have been if respondents had been asked their opinion of Obama’s actual recovery policy: a much slower economic recovery with a much higher deficit.
