find out what they re going to do with it. you think we ll get a spending reduction plan in place by 2012? voters enormously skeptical. 73% say it s not likely. i want to put this in perspective. it s not just that they don t think a plan will come in the future. congress already they cut spending by a trillion dollars as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling. most say they don t even think those cuts will be delivered upon. heather: so what is next in the debt cutting plan? what do they think? most americans would like to see a plan that is mostly spending cuts. they expect if any deal does come out, it will be mostly tax hikes. they think the spending cuts will be ignored, the tax hikes will be implemented and then just to flesh out the full round of skeptic im, 62% say if taxes are raised, congress won t use it to reduce the deficit. they ll spend it on something new. kelly: i m running out of time. you ve got toell us, you are rasmussen, the best out there. what s the
behind by single digits against all of the top republicans. president in the low to mid 40s. the race is still a referendum on him. for chris christie, he s got to make his decision soon. he thinks he said no enough. we ll find out if he has one more no left in him. heather: i think maybe he might have one more no, but he ll keep us hanging just in case. is it all just hype? i don t know if it s all just hype. it s probably flattering to be begged to run for president. there is not a lot of call from the grassroots nationwide. only 20% think he should be running for president. that he should jump into this race. among republicans, 32% say he should get in. 25% say he doesn t. there is not going to be a huge grassroots, let s draft chris christie movement. this is coming from leaders, many of whom were discouraged by rick perry s last debate performance. kelly: we have that spending reduction plan that s still out there somewhere. the super committee trying to
happening. by involving, making certain that there are the provisions there that are going to be able to move forward in the senate, that are going to garner the most votes, that are going to send the right message to the markets, that are going to be there so that they have the support, not only of members of both chambers of congress, as you were just hearing, but also of the american people. it is going to take dealing with the spending problem first, all of the economists have told us that. they want to see a spending reduction plan. the ryan budget was a good step. the provisions we will take to the floor today would give us over 60 and just under 70% of the reductions in the ryan budget. that s a solid footing for moving forward for further and greater spending reductions. it would it sounds like you re talking about compromise, which is what the country is expecting from everybody there on the hill. i want to get your insider take on the yeah, let me say to that,
millions of americans? well, and what we re trying to do is to prevent that from happening. by involving, making certain that there are the provisions there that are going to be able to move forward in the senate, that are going to garner the most votes, that are going to send the right message to the markets, that are going to be there so that they have the support, not only of members of both chambers of congress, as you were just hearing, but also of the american people. it is going to take dealing with the spending problem first, all of the economists have told us that. they want to see a spending reduction plan. the ryan budget was a good step. the provisions we will take to the floor today would give us over 60 and just under 70% of the reductions in the ryan budget. that s a solid footing for moving forward for further and greater spending reductions. it would it sounds like you re talking about compromise, which is what the country is expecting from
congresswoman blackburn, the republican position of no revenue uses at all in deficit reduction is supported by only 26% of the american people. how can the republicans maintain that they are in any way acting as representatives of the people when they are taking a position that is opposed by over 70% of the people? i find it interesting that you phrase the question that way. i will tell you one of the things we hear repeatedly from people from coast to coast is that washington doesn t have a revenue problem. it has a spending problem. what the american people would really like to see us do is to get this out of control wasteful washington spending under control. we ve heard from economists from coast to coast there again who have said what you have to do is move forward with the spending reduction plan. they want to see that. the ratings agencies want to see it. we can t continue on this