DOWN TO +55%

I noted before that two polls found that over 60% of Americans preferred a mixture of spending cuts and tax increases to help fix the deficit problem and now a new  Reuters/IPSO finds that 56% want a mixed approach.

Americans back mixed solution for debt crisis: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:57pm EDT

The poll found that 56 percent of Americans want to see a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases included in a deal to bring down the U.S. budget deficit and permit a vote to raise the country's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

This is the approach favored by Obama and his fellow Democrats to begin to put America's fiscal house in order.