Showing posts with label Simpson Bowles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simpson Bowles. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Public Policy Polling discovers some people like Nonsensical, made up "Panetta-Burns" budget plan.

Pollsters are aware that some people just don't want to look stupid about the issues, so they pretend they have an opinion. Well, this is one such example:
Which produced these tweets
Business Insider: Public Policy Polling tested people's reaction to the Simpson-Bowles plan to reduce the national deficit.

To compare, the firm also gau ged the reaction to the so-called "Panetta-Burns plan," which isn't a real plan. It's based on a mythical combination of Leon Panetta, the current Secretary of Defense and former chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, and Conrad Burns, a former Republican Senator from Montana. Despite the fact that there is no such thing as the "Panetta-Burns" plan, 25 percent of respondents offered an opinion on it. Eight percent said they view it favorably, while 17 percent said they do not have a favorable opinion of the "plan."
Of course, you gotta like the response to another PPP question:
49 percent of Republicans now say that the disbanded community organizing group ACORN stole the 2012 presidential election for President Barack Obama, according to a survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP) released Tuesday.