Divide Among Voters

February 23, 2009, President Obama:

 

“And that's why today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half at the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges that we have long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now in this administration for getting our spending under control."  

One sign of the divide in the country might be some that a majority of voters think he meant it and has been trying hard to do it. His years in office have gone the opposite direction because of Bush or Republicans or ... something else. They will give him much credit for trying. Another group suspects (thinks it knows) that he never meant it to begin with.  

In a similar sense of the divide among voters, George Will suggested: The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government’s size is at any moment, it is the bare minimum necessary to forestall intolerable suffering. To add to this, the conservative will say that the present level of government is part of the problem and it needs actual reduction.

At this point, just wondering if that is the case.