49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.
Beautiful.
I often think it would be hard for me to be even more cynical about our species, but I think working in public polling could get me there.
The 39% of Americans with an opinion about Bowles/Simpson is only slightly higher than the 25% with one about Panetta/Burns, a mythical Clinton Chief of Staff/former western Republican Senator combo we conceived of to test how many people would say they had an opinion even about something that doesn't exist.
Bowles/Simpson does have bipartisan support from the small swath of Americans with an opinion about it. Republicans support it 26/18, Democrats favor it 21/14, and independents are for it by a 24/18 margin. Panetta/Burns doesn't fare as well with 8% support and 17% opposition.
Odds are good that approximately nobody, not the politicians talking about it, not the pundits talking about it, not the public talking about it knows what's actually in the Bowles/Simpson plan. Certainly what the B/S plan actually recommends is light years from what John Boehner is going to be able to convince his "conservative" caucus to support.