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NEW IBD/TIPP POLL: Americans? Message To New Congress: Less Gov?t, Please. A new IBD/TIPP poll o?

By Glenn Reynolds

NEW IBD/TIPP POLL: Americans’ Message To New Congress: Less Gov’t, Please.

A new IBD/TIPP poll on public attitudes suggests that Tuesday’s event was less an election than an intervention: Stop what you are doing; you’re hurting us all.

A majority of the public wants Washington to stop the spending that has exploded the budget deficit. In a listing of top priorities for Congress, cutting the deficit by cutting spending came in No. 1, cited by 53%. (Fully 73%, including a majority of Democrats, said this is a “high priority.”)

Will they listen?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 06, 2010 (boomark / email).