61 % disagree with Obama on debt ceiling

Bloomberg:

Americans by a 2-to-1 ratio disagree with President Barack Obama’s contention that Congress should raise the U.S. debt limit without conditions.

Instead, 61 percent say that it’s “right to require spending cuts when the debt ceiling is raised even if it risks default,” because Congress lacks spending discipline, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Sept. 20-23.

That sentiment is shared by almost three-quarters of Republicans, two-thirds of independents, and a plurality of Democrats. Just 28 percent of respondents backed Obama’s call for a clean bill that has no add-on provisions.

“Sometimes it can be hard to negotiate if Republicans are making irrational demands, but to say ‘I’m not going to talk at all’ -- I’ve just never found not negotiating to be an effective way to get something done,” Sam Manders, a 29-year-old lacrosse coach from Gray, Maine, and a Democrat, said in a follow-up interview.
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Almost two-thirds of the public would rather see the automatic reductions replaced with targeted cuts. That strong sentiment comes even as most people aren’t personally affected by the across-the-board cuts; 30 percent of Americans say their households have felt the spendingreductions. while 66 percent say they haven’t.
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This polling should tell Obama that he needs to work with Congress as opposed to pushing the issue into a government shutdown because he does not get all he wants.  Such a move is likely to hurt and him and Democrats the most.