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Voters aren’t buying the rhetoric from President Obama on his proposed spending freeze, according to new polling from Rasmussen:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just nine percent (9%) think the freeze will reduce the deficit a lot.

Eighty-one percent (81%) disagree, including 42% who say it will have no impact. Another 39% say the freeze in nearly all areas except defense, national security, veterans affairs and entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will reduce the deficit a little.

Still, 56% favor the president’s plan for a three-year freeze on discretionary spending. Only 24% oppose it, and 20% more are undecided. Other data suggests that voters view the proposal as a first step in the right direction.

Overall, 57% would like to see a cut in government spending, 23% favor a freeze, and 12% say the government should increase spending. Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly favor spending cuts. Democrats are evenly divided between spending cuts and a spending freeze.

What’s more, voters aren’t buying the rosy picture of the economy that the president painted during his State of the Union address to Congress, with majorities not believing that Obama has cut taxes for 95% of Americans or that the economy is growing or that 2 million more people have been put back to work by “stimulus” spending.