MY view on what a study shows is that neither party speaks for the people now. That might point to compromise on this debt ceiling thing—over which the president is cleverly disingenuous and the Republicans seem confused. But the deeper point is that the Republicans have a lot of work to do in convincing people how real the entitlement (really, Medicare) crisis is.
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