CNN.com Determined to Omit News That 66% of Americans Favor 'Cut, Cap and Tax'
For the second day in a row, CNN is doing its level best to avoid noting some interesting data from its latest poll that shows some 66 percent of voters favor the Republican-sponsored "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan.
The only mention of that fact on air is when guests bring it up and today the CNN.com website is casting the poll's results as evidence that while Obama is losing enthusiasm among liberal voters, that the public at large is skeptical of congressional Republicans.
From a story filed at 1:01 p.m. Eastern by CNN's political unit:
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama's approval rating is down to 45 percent, driven in part by growing dissatisfaction on the left with the president's track record in office, according to a new national survey.
A CNN/ORC International Poll also indicates that the Republican "brand" is taking a beating in the minds of Americans.
That poll is, of course, the very same poll that contains data showing broad public support for Cut, Cap and Balance as well as even higher numbers (74%) favoring a federal balanced budget amendment.
It's just that the results were split up so that CNN could make two days of news political advocacy out of the story instead of one.
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Yes, but those are all "hard-line conservatives"
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 4:06pm.
not normal people, so they don't count.
If 66% opposed this bill, CNN would be saying it was "wildly unpopular."
It's their own stinkin' poll!
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 4:08pm.
Who is running that freak show? Am I taking crazy pills?????
Nope
Submitted by BMorgan53 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 6:44pm.
They are the ones who've been sucking the loco weed tea!
Tax?
Submitted by Rukus on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:05am.
Is that heading supposed to say 'Cut, Cap and Tax'?
Yes the public might be
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 2:07pm.
Yes the public might be skeptical of the Republicans ability to hold the debt limit down and cut spending, without giving into job killing tax increases, because of the severe left wing ideological front put up by all the democraps in the Senate (which forever disposes of even the possibility that there are any fiscal conservative democraps in the Senate. The blue dogs are neutered, and with 66 percent against their caving in to Obama, Reid and Pelosi's tax borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow fiscal (sic) policies, they had better update their resumes.