Regarding the Fiscal Cliff Policy, the Republicans and Democrats have very different views. The Fiscal Cliff is the policy taken in order to decrease the nation's deficit. The congressional Republicans are not pleased and do not want to enforce several spending cuts and increases on taxes. They want to only increase taxes for limiting tax breaks, like income tax deductions. However, the Democrats are strong supporters and are willing to work hard on the crisis.
The way I conducted my research included using appropriate and formal terms, using key words, and checking to see if sources are reliable. I used the "advanced search" option and typed in the most important words. I avoided websites that didn't seem reliable and used sites such as Huffington Post and CNN. I also made sure the dates were recent and the people who wrote the articles weren't random people with biased opinions. Using key words was the most helpful and gave me several and more reliable sources.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/12/13/poll-americans-support-gop-position-fiscal-cliff/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/politics/obama-congress/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/fiscal-cliff-poll-pew_n_2292151.html
Good use of the tools to make the searching more efficient; I'm sure you will continue to find them useful as you use them more and become better at it. Neither side was a "strong supporter" of the cliff. Both were aware that not solving the problem would have been a disaster, but differed on how to go about doing side. Allowing the automatic changes that would have gone into effect on 1/1/13 would have served the Democratic goals more than the Republican, but nobody was really going to come out ahead.
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