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David Brooks rightly points out this morning that the wind is at Republicans' back on the debt ceiling debate. The question is how hard it's blowing.
Events are being driven by the Republican leaders. The playing field on the debt-ceiling fight is tilted in their direction, so they want to make this fight as consequential as possible. They want to use this occasion to reshape fiscal policy for decades.
If the wind is blowing hard, decades may be right.
Gallup's poll results this morning suggest the wind is blowing pretty vigorously. Public opposition to raising the debt ceiling remains high - across the board.
A lot of Americans say they don't know enough to say whether Congress should raise the ceiling, but the results are still pretty interesting.
Independents trend toward Republican opposition in a significant way, and considering the margin of error, Democrats are pretty evenly split. This suggests, though it doesn't automatically entail, that public support for serious cuts in exchange for an increase remains high.
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