I am not. Dodd-Frank has hurt investments of mine. Obamacare threatens the freedom of my grandchildren. I am unemployed.
Well you wait until we get closer to the election. There will be more of these “Are you better off than four years ago polls?”. Four years ago in Oct/Nov the Dow was 8800 or so and now it is 13000. When this same poll is conducted in October there will be almost nobody who relies on investments for their income that can honestly say they are worse off now.
I know that the DOW is a leading indicator for the economy - in other words the drop in the Dow around October was partly due to the fact that the market anticipated that the Commie would beat McCain (who wasn’t much better than the Commie). So these polls are all smokescreens.