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Nation’s Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows
New York Times ^ | 4/21/11 | JIM RUTENBERG and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN

Posted on 04/21/2011 4:31:14 PM PDT by crosshairs

Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. At a time of rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment and a cacophonous debate in Washington over the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations, the poll presents stark evidence that the slow, if unsteady, gains in public confidence earlier this year that a recovery was under way are now all but gone. Capturing what appears to be an abrupt change in attitude, the survey shows that the number of Americans who think the economy is getting worse has jumped 13 percentage points in just one month. Though there have been encouraging signs of renewed growth since last fall, many economists are having second thoughts, warning that the pace of expansion might not be fast enough to create significant numbers of new jobs. The dour public mood is dragging down ratings for both parties in Congress and for President Obama, the poll found.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mood; nation
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To paraphrase Confucious: Erections have consequences.
1 posted on 04/21/2011 4:31:20 PM PDT by crosshairs
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To: crosshairs

Bush’s fault!!!


2 posted on 04/21/2011 4:32:27 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: crosshairs
Nation’s Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows

Nothing compared to how low it will get if SHTF.

3 posted on 04/21/2011 4:33:32 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: crosshairs

Buyers remorse is setting in on the foolish Obama Voters.


4 posted on 04/21/2011 4:34:44 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

and the stock market rises on this news today. LOL


5 posted on 04/21/2011 4:36:09 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: screaminsunshine

BINGO!


6 posted on 04/21/2011 4:38:59 PM PDT by A. Morgan
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To: crosshairs
Its just like the Carter era all over, except without the smiley faces!

Hey Obama! Have a Nice day!


7 posted on 04/21/2011 4:39:07 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: crosshairs

Lowest point since... Obama became president.


8 posted on 04/21/2011 4:39:11 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: crosshairs

Could it be possible that America is finally waking up?


9 posted on 04/21/2011 4:39:58 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: crosshairs

For any people here who think people are blindly going through life not “Getting It”, it appears that they are. The only reason that it took a while is because some stragglers were still buying into the Regimes line that they had it all under control. There is no question now. He is incompetent on all fronts except selecting the best Ice Cream joint in any given town.

I don’t recall things this bad even in the late 70’s. It just gets worse every day.


10 posted on 04/21/2011 4:40:48 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: crosshairs
Nation’s Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows

Oh bullsh!t!

I've been reading this gawd damm drivil for the last two years and I am gawd damm sick and tire of this bullsh!t mood reading nasty a$$ gobblety gook!

KEEERIST, things were going good until I had to read this biased bullsh!t, uncalled for, annoying, worthless, alien, sh!t!

I just want to relax and be myself and enjoy life in this liberal pi$$ puddle of a place without people trying to tell me that my gawd damm mood stinks!

11 posted on 04/21/2011 4:43:17 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: crosshairs

Jimmy Carter V 2.0. You were expecting something else?


12 posted on 04/21/2011 4:45:26 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: mylife
Thank you FRiend!

Your the 9th person today to wish me a good day today in that fashion. : )

13 posted on 04/21/2011 4:45:55 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: hadaclueonce

Correction, Jimmy Carter “Vista”


14 posted on 04/21/2011 4:46:29 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: EGPWS

See? Happiness is infectious!


15 posted on 04/21/2011 4:47:39 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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I don’t recall things this bad even in the late 70’s. It just gets worse every day.

Jimmy Carter was a miracle worker compared to this guy.

16 posted on 04/21/2011 4:52:57 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: mylife
Hey ! You over there! Quitcher whinin'

Don't you know MickieD's is hiring?

WORST PRESIDENT EVER

17 posted on 04/21/2011 4:54:20 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: atc23

You been to Mickey D’s lately?

I paid $3 for a Big Mac and the patties were the diameter of a beer can and about 1/8th of an inch thick.


18 posted on 04/21/2011 5:00:11 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: okie01
Jimmy Carter was a miracle worker compared to this guy.

You had me audibly laugh out loud on that one. Hilarious. You couldn't be any more right. Our family had to tighten belts and of course put a sweater on in the winter, but this whole thing now seems to be trending more towards the depression era with the high foreclosures, unemployment and general despair by people you run into to.

At least during the Carter years, you could still get a V8 on a passenger car. Now we have the Chevy Firebug, I mean Volt.

19 posted on 04/21/2011 5:03:38 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: crosshairs
obama_thought7

Obama: ''My plan to balance the budget is this: more smoke, more mirrors, more QE, more
spending and more taxes on all productive people. I do think at a certain point
you've made enough money. All aboard the bullet train to bankruptcy.''
20 posted on 04/21/2011 5:08:25 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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