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The Post wrongly told readers that readers that President Obama is proposing budget cuts to independent voters about whom it says:

“this bloc shares the tea party’s alarm over the $14 trillion national debt but takes a more nuanced view of how to achieve fiscal balance.”

Actually, polling data have consistently shown that independents place a top priority on job creation and see deficit reduction as a secondary concern. President Obama will likely secure more money for his campaign from funders and more positive coverage from the Washington Post and other news outlets by proposing cuts in the deficit, but the polling data suggest that any gains from independent voters will likely be indirect outcomes from these more obvious gains.