May 5, 2011
A Majority Opinion Research national poll of voters finds that 46% of American voters do not think that Congress should vote to increase the United States debt ceiling. On one side, 66% of Republicans and 51% of independent voters do not think the debt ceiling should be raised; while on the other side only 32% of Democrats think it should be raised.
Q. Do you think Congress should vote to increase the United State’s debt ceiling?
| Yes |
25% |
| No |
46% |
| No Opinion |
29% |
The poll of 1,032 voters was conducted on May 4, 2001 and was weighted by age, race, gender and political party affiliation. The poll has a maximum sampling error of +/- 2.9%. |
