Two new national polls released overnight show Republicans are risking – in the words of the Wall Street Journal – "isolation from many independent voters" – in the debt ceiling debate that has been roiling Washington for weeks.
The NBC News/WSJ poll finds that on the basic idea that the debt ceiling should be raised in the first place, 38 percent say yes it should, while 31% disagree. That's a huge shift from the same survey taken a month ago, where a majority (39 percent) said it should not be raised, while 28 percent said it should be.
And of those polled over the weekend by the Journal/NBC, 58% support President's Obama approach of a $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan over 10 years.
Of course, as you'll hear any and every D.C. Republican say on cable news, we haven't actually seen the specifics of the President's plan yet.
This article appears in Jul 14-20, 2011.