When the vast majority of the left is in favor of something, that should be our cue to vehemently oppose it.
(The Hill) — The spending agreement reached late Friday that staved off a government shutdown is considerably more popular with Democrats than with Republicans, according to a new poll.
Thirty-eight percent disapproved of the deal, while 5 percent had no opinion, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Monday.
The poll’s internal numbers found that Democrats and independents were most likely to favor the deal. Democrats backed it 66-28 percent (with a 6 percent margin of error), while independents supported it 56-39 percent (with a 5 percent margin of error).
Republicans, by contrast, expressed slight opposition to the deal. Forty-seven percent of Republicans said they supported the deal, negotiated chiefly by the GOP Speaker of the House, while 49 percent disapproved of the agreement.
Obama and Democrats in Congress have said they don’t enjoy making the kinds of cuts contained in the deal, but they might enjoy political credit for it anyway.