Political Pundits Got Debt Ceiling Scorecard Wrong

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/debbie-wasserman-schultz-debt_n_918440.html

WASHINGTON -- The rush to frame the winners and losers in the debt ceiling deal stands in stark contrast to the protracted negotiations over the debt ceiling themselves. On Thursday afternoon, the Democratic National Committee engaged once again, issuing a memo arguing that political pundits got their analyses wrong when they deemed the final result a win for the Republicans.

"The fact is, since President Obama reached a debt and deficit compromise with Republicans over the weekend, CNN and Gallup polls show that a hefty majority of Democrats and Liberals support the deal while a hefty majority of Republicans, and particularly the all-important Tea Party Republicans, oppose it," says the memo, authored by DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard and sent to The Huffington Post. "If you’re waiting for the rush of stories, columns and blogs with the inside the beltway intelligentsia admitting they missed the mark on this – don’t hold your breath. The very folks who rush to judgment on these things are rarely in a rush to admit they were wrong."

Going through the actual polling data -- which showed that two-thirds of Republicans and conservatives opposed the deal while a majority of Democrats and liberals approved of it -- Gaspard argues that reporters were basing their assumptions off either faulty or uninformed insight.

"The numbers show that while Democrats and liberals supported the President’s commitment to reaching a fair compromise, Republicans and Conservatives overwhelmingly opposed compromise," the memo concludes. "Of course this should be of little surprise. Poll after poll during the course of this discussion showed that Democrats by large margins favored compromise while the vast majority of Republicans opposed any compromise with Democrats whatsoever."

Something like 38% support

No one gives a damn if the people suffer only if the Party looks good.
Your team wins and all your supporters are dead, but, but the team won..........

Until most of the money at the top shifts down to the bottom 90%, nothing will change
When the shift happens everyone wins, when the top is heavy, the country topples over

doesn't have much of a "victory" ring in my ears.

Color me stupid, I guess, but just because the far right extremists don't like it doesn't mean I do.

:shrug: