One of the most upsetting stat is that voters by and large didn’t blame Obama for the horrid economy. I blame (of course) the reporting on this. There is a research paper (can’t remember where I read it), that studies the nature and tone of economic reporting by TV and newspapers and compares the verbiage, headlines, etc. When there is a Republican in the WH, things are always painted in a very bad light. A Democrat in the WH? Words like “unexpected,” and “surprise,” etc. Never any blame to the man in the Oval Office if it is a Democrat.