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that offer, the phone call the president had with boehner on tuesday night was an attempt to save the talks and assure boehner that the white house wasn t trying to be insulting with their offer and it was a tense conversation. so when it comes to the sticking point, the president has a big edge on this as far as the public is concerned, particularly on taxes and in our poll 76% said they d be willing to accept higher rates on the wealthy, including 61% of republicans and it was tax rates. that s what we asked in our question, folks. perhaps trying to be sure they don t appear stubborn, republican leadership aides are floating a story overnight that boehner told the president private live that he would be open to more tax revenue but he hasn t budged on the rate issue, more than $800 billion the gop has offered if the president puts more entitlement cuts on the table, though, a place where the democrats are least willing to give ground.

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