57% Okay With Government Shutdown If It Leads to Deeper Budget Cuts

[sailingaway]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/march_2011/57_okay_with_government_shutdown_if_it_leads_to_de eper_budget_cuts


Democrats also are more than twice as likely as Republicans and unaffiliated voters to believe that a partial government shutdown would be bad for the economy.

There’s a similar divide between Political Class and Mainstream voters. Fifty-two percent (52%) of the Political Class say avoiding a shutdown is more important than deeper spending cuts. Sixty-five percent (65%) of Mainstream voters put more emphasis on spending cuts.

Seventy-six percent (76%) of Political Class voters say it is better to avoid a shutdown by authorizing spending at a level most Democrats will agree to. Sixty-six percent (66%) of those in the Mainstream would rather see a shutdown until deeper spending cuts can be agreed on.

Most of those in the Political Class (52%) see a shutdown as bad for the economy, but just 38% of Mainstream voters agree.

[Kylie]

A shutdown would be bad for the political classes economy.

But it would be fantastic for the rest of us, at least those of us who don't expect a check from it.

[nayjevin]

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 30-31, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Telephone survey, FWIW

Good news if accurate, I'd say. But 'Likely Voters' reached by telephone is not exactly mainstream America.

[tangent4ronpaul]

"Political class voters" - what's that? did they survey Congress?

[matt0611]

A shutdown would be bad for the political classes economy.

But it would be fantastic for the rest of us, at least those of us who don't expect a check from it.

Hell yes!

[Keith and stuff]

A partial government shutdown would be excellent for the US economy. The longer it is partial shutdown, the more it will improve the US economy.