SHOT: In Calling On Congress To Pass His Tax Hike Position, Obama Claimed “The American People Are With Me On This.  Poll After Poll Shows That’s The Case.” OBAMA: “So I’m not proposing anything radical here.  I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton — back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot.  And this is not just my opinion.  The American people are with me on this.  Poll after poll shows that’s the case.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks On Taxes, Washington, DC, 7/9/12)

CHASER:A New McClatchy-Marist Poll Shows That By A 52 Percent To 43 Percent Margin, Americans Are Not With Obama, Preferring Extension Of All Expiring Tax Cuts. “A majority of Americans want the Bush tax cuts extended for everyone, despite a strong push by President Barack Obama to eliminate them on higher incomes, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. The poll found 52 percent of registered voters saying they want all the tax cuts extended, including the tax cuts for incomes above $250,000, while 43 percent want the cuts extended just for incomes below that threshold.”( David Goldstein, “Poll: Majority Want Tax Cuts For All, Even The Wealthy,” McClatchy Newspapers, 7/13/12)