Cutting Social Security and Medicare? That's the 'Middle' to Cokie Roberts [View all]

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http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/cutting-social-security-and-medicare-thats-the-middle/

To Roberts, Obama has been shoring up liberal support on other issues–immigration, guns, marriage equality. But these budget moves have a different purpose:

This is a move towards the middle, to getting those independent voters who he lost in the last election…. by emphasizing deficits, which is something they say they care about.

But who exactly wants to cut Social Security and Medicare? Not many people, according to this recent Washington Post poll: Just 17 percent supported cutting Medicare benefits, and 21 percent said the same for Social Security. These are policy ideas that never poll very well. But for elite media the "middle" is where brave politicians go in order to slash benefits for everyone else.