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Party Identification and Attitudes toward Government Spending

- February 14, 2011

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In response to “my post”:https://themonkeycage.org/2011/02/more_on_deficits_and_public_op.html last week, reader Jim Bach made this graph, based on “these data”:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2011/02/new_poll_same_public_resistanc.html. He writes:

bq. The issues (along the y-axis) are rank-ordered by Republican respondents’ preferences. The x-axis is the percentage of respondents who chose to *not* cut spending on that issue. It shows quite clearly how opposed to spending cuts most voters are, regardless of partisan ID or feelings about the deficit.

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