A whopping 15% favor additional stimulus spending.

Via Fox News:

President Obama, after delivering a barbed inaugural address that focused on controversial social agenda items, plans to return to the economy in his State of the Union Tuesday — but his prescription for growth is still at odds with that of the Republican Party, and many voters.

The president is expected to revive his calls Tuesday for government “investments” in infrastructure and education — meaning spending.

While the recurring push, for Republicans, brings back bad memories of the stimulus law they opposed, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling told Fox News on Tuesday that closing the deficit “doesn’t mean you pull back on everything.”

“I don’t think that laying the foundation for future growth (with research and highway spending) is anything to discount in any way,” Sperling said. “What you need to do is be smart.”

Obama on Tuesday night is expected to focus on economic growth, while acknowledging the need to close the deficit through a combination of budget cuts and tax increases.

“The core emphasis that he has always placed in these big speeches remains the same, and it will remain the same — the need to make the economy work for the middle class,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.

Fox News poll released last week showed that 73 percent of voters say cutting spending would be more likely to help strengthen the nation’s economy — as opposed to just 15 percent who believe increasing spending would do the trick. Opposition to another round of stimulus also ran 2-to-1, according to the poll.

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