CNN Poll : 58% said the government should continue funding provisions of Obama’s health care law, 65% say the federal government should continue funding Planned Parenthood. 71% for funding the Environmental Protection Agency

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POLITICO.COM
Poll: Barack Obama gets more credit in budget deal
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
April 11, 2011


Poll: Barack Obama gets more credit in budget deal


Some excerpts :

Nearly six in 10 Americans say they back the budget deal reached by the White House and congressional Republicans late last week, and are giving a bit more credit to President Barack Obama than they are to members of Congress from either party.

Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed over the weekend for a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday said they approve of the deal that includes $38.5 billion in spending cuts through the rest of fiscal 2011, while 38 percent said they disapprove.

Support for the deal is stronger among Democrats — 66 percent of whom said they backed it — than it is among Republicans, 47 percent of whom said they support it. Fifty-six percent of independents said they’re in favor of the deal.

Overall, Americans give Obama and congressional Democrats more credit for making the deal happen, with 48 percent of those surveyed crediting them for the deal. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, get the credit from 35 percent of those surveyed. Another 11 percent credited both sides equally.

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House Speaker John Boehner, who many are identifying as the big winner in the negotiations, doesn’t get such positive marks from those surveyed: 41 percent approve of the job he’s doing, while 44 percent disapprove and 15 percent have no opinion.

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Majorities of those surveyed sided with Democrats on specific issues raised in policy riders attached to the budget bill. On whether the federal government should continue to fund Planned Parenthood, 65 percent were in favor, while 34 percent were opposed. On funding the Environmental Protection Agency, 71 percent expressed approval while 28 percent expressed opposition. And, on funding provisions of Obama’s health care law, 58 percent said the government should continue to do so, while 41 percent said it shouldn’t.

The poll was conducted April 9-10 and surveyed 824 adults. The error margin is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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