November 6- 9, 2011: Politico/George Washington University Battleground 2012 Survey—Nationwide poll on making spending cuts to Medicare and Medicaid by increasing beneficiary costs.
(As youmay already know, President (Barack) Obama and the US (United States) Congressrecently agreed on a law to increase the national debt ceiling. One of the keyparts of this law was the creation of a bipartisan committee to examine ways tobalance the federal budget. This committee has been nicknamed the supercommittee.)…This super committee is likely to consider a number of proposalsto achieve its goal of finding a way to balance the federal budget. I am goingto read a list of proposals. Please listen carefully as I read each one andtell me if you would favor or oppose that particular proposal….Makinghundreds of millions of dollars in spending cuts to Medicare and Medicaidthrough increasing beneficiary costs…(If Favor/Oppose, ask:) Is that stronglyfavor/oppose or somewhat favor/oppose?
6% Favorstrongly
13% Favorsomewhat
24%Oppose somewhat
52%Oppose strongly
5% Unsure
Methodology: Conducted by Tarrance Group& Lake Research Partners, November 6 – November 9, 2011 and based on 1,000telephone interviews. Sample: National likely voters. Likely voters areregistered voters who said they are somewhat/very/extremely likely to vote in2012. [USTARR.11BATT3.R26]
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Politico/George Washington UniversityBattleground 2012 Survey, Nov, 2011. Retrieved Dec-8-2011 from the iPOLLDatabank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University ofConnecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html