Rasmussen: 71% Say Obama’s Policies Have Driven Up Deficit

Rasmussen ^ | August 5, 2009

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Seventy-one percent (71%) of U.S. voters say President Obama’s policies have increased the size of the federal deficit, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Only five percent (5%) say the president’s policies have cut the deficit, and 10% say they have had no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

Eighty percent (80%) of investors say Obama’s policies have driven up the deficit, a view shared by just 57% of non-investors.

Not surprisingly, 88% of Republicans blame the president’s policies, compared to 52% of Democrats. But 79% of voters not affiliated with either party agree.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[mikelets456]

....and 95% of blacks still approve of everything he does, or you’re a racist!

[The_Reader_David]

Alternative headline: 29% of Americans surveyed suffer from terminal innumeracy.

[Kansas58]

29% are, apparently, in mental institutions!

[Koblenz]

How could 29% say no? Even if you like Obama and support his policies, those policies still have increased the deficit.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Alternative headline: 29% of Americans surveyed suffer from terminal innumeracy.

Just plain illiterate, if you ask me. That 29% can’t possbily even know the definition of the term “deficit”.

[Force of Truth]

Only five percent (5%) say the president’s policies have cut the deficit***

I wonder what the ethnic makeup of that sample is?

[Signalman]

w could 29% say no? Even if you like Obama and support his policies, those policies still have increased the deficit.

Wait a second, 5% say Obama has CUT the deficit. On what planet are these imbeciles living?

[PhiKapMom]

More likely the word is racial make-up. Absolutely disgusting that people are so enamored with the fraud, they cannot see the forest for the trees or outright lie.

[throwback]

Huh? Makes you wonder who's dumber; pollers or pollees. Why didn't they ask how many thought they were born with feet?

[DejaJude]

Seems the bloom is off the rose.

[SaveTheChief]

This can’t be right. The chosen one has told us that everything bad was inherited. He wouldn’t lie to US, would he?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

How could 29% say no? ...

[Boiling Pots]

They are of the “I was high on crack when the pollster called” persuasion.

[BornToBeAmerican]

29% = Margin of error - It just couldn’t be 100%, could it? /sarc

[maggief]

"Only five percent (5%) say the president’s policies have cut the deficit, and 10% say they have had no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure."

[VanDeKoik]

But isnt it Bush’s fault?

[ModelBreaker]

“Only five percent (5%) say the president’s policies have cut the deficit, and 10% say they have had no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.”

What planet are these people from?

[meyer]

Only five percent (5%) say the president’s policies have cut the deficit, and 10% say they have had no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

In other words, 15% of the respondents are complete morons that should not be allowed to vote. Additionally, 13% are of questionable intelligence and require further testing.

[eureka!]

When looking at these polls and scratching my head, I always reflect on the fact that 50% of the people out there are below average intelligence. Factor in media bias, lack of interest in politics and the liberal bent of our educational system, the numbers make some sense.