“voters were asked whether the TARP program, otherwise known as the bailout, was started under President Bush or President Obama”
A push question. You’re looking for a certain outcome.
Now choose other important questions, such as the history of the current president of the United States, his votes on key issues while in Illinois, etc., etc., and you will find that CNN/MSNBC/Network viewers are more “uninformed”.
Push polls are absolutely 100% meaningless. The sooner that fact is understood by a plurality of the people, the sooner we can be free. It’s a fact that leads to many other facts.
They should have asked if a certain Senator who shall remain nameless, but who will be vacationing in Hawaii soon approved of TARP in the Senate.
“53% of Americans believe that President Obama was the only President responsible for the bailout of Chrysler and GM. In December of 2008 the Bush administration distributed $17.4 billion to the auto industry as part of the TARP program.”
This is a red herring. The purpose of TARP money was to shore up troubled institutions financially until they got back on their feet. After that they were to pay the TARP funds back to the govt. Obama’s crime was to prevent a legal bankruptcy proceeding in order to illegally dispossess bondholders, then use TARP money to take ownership while cutting in his union buddies.
“The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the stimulus saved or created anywhere between 2.0 to 5.2 million jobs.”
Yeah, but the Obama’s CBO used Administration guidelines to make this estimate. I heard Jared Bernstein describe a technique on NPR. They applied arbitrarily assigned multipliers to various stimulus outlays to “estimate” jobs created or saved.