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With automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin Friday, majorities of Americans believe they arent a good idea and say the contentious budget negotiations make them less confident about the U.S. economy, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Despite those findings, a majority still supports Congress moving ahead with either the current cuts or a plan containing even more cuts as a way to reduce the deficit, suggesting the publics general appetite for reducing spending.
But the poll also shows that as the nations political actors once again quarrel over these automatic cuts totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years commonly referred to as sequestration or the sequester President Barack Obama finds himself in a much stronger position than his Republican adversaries.
If the president needs some tweaks and adjustments, the Republican Party is pretty much in need of a major makeover, says Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
The Republicans dont need a silver lining; they need a whole new playbook, Yang adds.
48 percent say Obama is pursuing a path on unifying the country in a bipartisan way, while 43 percent say he's taking a partisan approach that doesn't unify the country.
By comparison, 64 percent say Republicans are taking a partisan approach, versus 22 percent who say it's focused on unity.
NBC/WSJ poll: Public wary about sequester cuts, but Obama in stronger political position than GOP - First Read
Despite those findings, a majority still supports Congress moving ahead with either the current cuts or a plan containing even more cuts as a way to reduce the deficit, suggesting the publics general appetite for reducing spending.
But the poll also shows that as the nations political actors once again quarrel over these automatic cuts totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years commonly referred to as sequestration or the sequester President Barack Obama finds himself in a much stronger position than his Republican adversaries.
If the president needs some tweaks and adjustments, the Republican Party is pretty much in need of a major makeover, says Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
The Republicans dont need a silver lining; they need a whole new playbook, Yang adds.
48 percent say Obama is pursuing a path on unifying the country in a bipartisan way, while 43 percent say he's taking a partisan approach that doesn't unify the country.
By comparison, 64 percent say Republicans are taking a partisan approach, versus 22 percent who say it's focused on unity.
NBC/WSJ poll: Public wary about sequester cuts, but Obama in stronger political position than GOP - First Read
