Poll: Public Wants Priority On Job Creation, Prefers Deficit-Closing Via Tax Hikes

Personally, I prefer coffee to tea and the voters agree:

And although a combined 22 percent of poll-takers name the deficit/government spending as the top issue the federal government should address, 37 percent believe job creation/economic growth is the No. 1 issue. [...]

The most popular: placing a surtax on federal income taxes for those who make more than $1 million per year (81 percent said that was acceptable), eliminating spending on earmarks (78 percent), eliminating funding for weapons systems the Defense Department says aren't necessary (76 percent) and eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries (74 percent). The least popular: cutting funding for Medicaid, the federal government health-care program for the poor (32 percent said that was acceptable); cutting funding for Medicare, the federal government health-care program for seniors (23 percent); cutting funding for K-12 education (22 percent); and cutting funding for Social Security (22 percent).

There's also this, which is interesting:

If I'm a House Republican representing a district that Obama won in 2008, the fact that the president is about a millon times more popular than John Boehner is going to give me pause about picking Boehner's side in a high-profile fight.