Americans evenly split on need to raise debt ceiling

A new Pew Research poll conducted July 15-17 shows that Americans are evenly split on the need to raise the debt ceiling.  40% say it is essential to raise the debt ceiling by August 2^nd; 39% believe there will be no problem if the country goes past August 2^nd without raising the debt ceiling.  Republicans in general and Tea Party identifiers in particular see no problem in not raising the debt ceiling.

Read the complete poll results herehttp://people-press.org/2011/07/18/public-split-evenly-on-urgency-of-debt-limit-debate/