The latest New York Times poll confirms something I’ve noted before, namely that the Democrats’ handling of the debt ceiling deal, though unpopular, was less unpopular than the alternative:
In a zero-sum contest, that’s good enough. But the problem for President Obama’s re-election campaign is that he needs to run against Perry/Romney/Bachmann not Boehner/McConnell.
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