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Obama’s policies are to blame for the continuing bad economy, up three points from last month. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the recession that began under Bush is at fault.

Aren't they two distinct questions?

[Michael Eden]

You have a point there.

There are good polls. But there are also a lot of bad polls, with loaded questions designed to elicit an intended response.

I would argue that Obama was more “responsible” for the economic crash in 2008 than was Bush in the sense that Obama championed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and helped prevent any reform of these GSEs that were most responsible for the destruction of our mortgage industry. Bush tried repeatedly to regulate Fannie and Freddie.

I’ve written a bunch of articles trying to point this fact out. Here’s one:
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/biden-we-misread-the-economy-and-its-all-the-republicans-fault/

But obviously Obama was not yet president - just a slimebag Democrat Senator who took more money from Fannie and Freddie than anybody - when the collapse occurred.

But mind you, Obama was part of a huge Democrat majority in both the House and the Senate when the collapse occurred, also. That seems to always get forgotten.