According to a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll, 94 percent of likely Republican caucus goers want candidates to talk about the budget deficit, more than any other issue. According to the same poll, 74 percent of likely Democratic caucus goers want candidates to talk about the budget deficit.
"When three-quarters of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans agree that presidential candidates should talk about deficits, it's clear that neither party can sidestep our budget problems," said Maya MacGuineas, head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. "Candidates should be tearing up their stump speeches and replacing them with ideas on how they plan to tackle our debt. Voters are demanding it."
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The poll findings buttress the efforts of First Budget, a joint initiative of Fix the Debt and The Concord Coalition to raise public awareness of the dangers posed by the nation's unsustainable budget policies and make solving this problem a high priority for the 2016 presidential candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The poll results also follow a drumbeat of activity by First Budget to raise the importance of the issue in Iowa. First Budget recently announced a Cabinet of local leaders, and in the last 10 days, First Budget leaders and volunteers have been spreading the message through media across Iowa, including in the Sioux City Journal, Newtown Daily News, the Quad City Times, WMT radio in Cedar Rapids and KXEL radio in Waterloo.
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