Yahoo/The Daily Caller: Republicans more upset with debt ceiling deal than Democrats

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The Daily Caller – 12 hrs ago....tweet5ShareEmailPrint......Despite the sentiment that the deal struck to raise the debt ceiling deal was a victory for the GOP, Republicans are more upset about the deal than Democrats, according to polling done by Gallup the night that the deal was signed into law.

In general, a plurality of Americans dislikes the deal, with 46 percent saying they disapprove and 39 percent saying they approve. Democrats are generally in favor of the bill, with 58 percent approving and just 28 percent disapproving. Republicans, disapprove by the similar margins, with 64 percent saying they dislike the bill and 25 percent saying they approve of it. Independent sentiment is closer to that of Republicans, with 50 percent disapproving of the deal and 33 percent approving.

The numbers may seem surprising given the storyline that the Republicans were the victors in negotiations. As The Washington Post’s 2Chambers blog reported, “as the bigger picture goes, the advantage goes to the Republicans, who will have for the first time transformed a routine vote to raise the federal borrowing limit into an opportunity to deliver on their pledge to reduce the size of government.” But the numbers are very much in line with the polling going into the deal.

A CNN/ORC poll released Monday, after the plan had been introduced, but before it was passed by the House, found that a majority — 52 percent — of the public disapproved of the agreement based on what they knew of it, and just 44 percent approved. Opinion diverged sharply among partisan lines, with 63 percent of Democrats approving, while 58 percent of Republicans disapproved. The poll found independents to be very much in the Republican camp, with 62 percent disapproving of the agreement.

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