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Why Congress won’t win a sequester showdown with President Obama — in 3 easy steps

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake on February 20, 2013 at 6:30 am

In politics, the simplest answer is almost always the right one.


House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, left, and House Speaker John Boehner

And that maxim is why Republicans in Congress would do well to avoid a confrontation with President Obama over the sequester.

Here’s why — in 3 very simple steps:

1. Regular people have no idea what the sequester is right now and, even once it kicks in, aren’t likely to pay all that close of attention to it unless they are directly affected by it.

2. Obama is popular with the American public

3. Congress is not.

Just in case you need a visual illustration of steps 2 and 3, here it is courtesy of Capital Insight polling wiz Scott Clement:



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