Posted on 08/22/2012 7:57:44 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Two new polls have caught Barack Obama and the Democrats in a crossfire.
A USA Today/Gallup survey of both national voter sentiment and the views of registered voters in 12 states identified as “battlegrounds” paints a bleak picture for Obama.
When asked the “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” question, made famous by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 campaign against Democrat Jimmy Carter, respondents in the important “swing states” told Gallup they were NOT better off by a wide 56/40 margin.
The national response to this question was only slightly better for Obama as registered voters said they were NOT better off by a 55/42 margin. Gallup’s accompanying report added, “While that question has been posed only episodically, when other recent presidents were seeking re-election, the current finding is the WORST IT’S BEEN when it was asked.”
But Gallup did provided Obama a straw to grab on to. The survey reported that Obama is actually ahead by a 47/44 margin in the “swing states” with Mitt Romney leading in the other 38 states by a 47/45 margin.
In other words the people who are the MOST unhappy with their condition after four years of Obama want to re-elect him, but those who are less unhappy with what Obama has done to them, after four years, want to vote him out. And we are supposed to believe this.
A second less scientific survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation asked 3,130 American Adults about their feelings toward living under a larger federal governments and dealing with government regulation of their everyday lives. By a 55/40 margin the respondents want smaller government and fewer regulations.
In what must be an ominous sign for Obama, only 25% the respondents were Republicans.
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Biased samples of “Registered voters” and “American adults”—Meh!
Each day that quota baby cretinistic loser is allowed to show his wimpoid face is a bad day for the inhabitents of earth.
“I haven’t had a raise in four years and the cost for my benefits keeps going up. As is the price of everything else. So I am not better off. But Romney would pack up my job in a box and ship it to India. Then I’d be REALLY scroooood!”
That’s the sort of pretzel logic you hear from some of the cretins around here.
“the only way to show that you are a TRUE conservative is to work for obama’s re-election!”
Romney should include the following questions in every one of his campaign speeches:
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Are you satisfied with the direction Obama is taking us?
Do you want the government to mandate more of aspects of your life?
Sadly, stupid people tend to double down on stupid. These are the same people who try to win their money back when they lose it in a casino.
Liberal pretzel logic...
I actually do believe that.
The reason is that the people who feel they are the most worse off include Blacks and post-collegiate Liberals who can’t find jobs. They won’t vote based on economic issues but on race and cultural ones. And even on economic issues they’ll buy the spin that it’s all still the fault of Bush and the GOP.
So yes, these results make good sense.
“When asked the “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” question, made famous by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 campaign against Democrat Jimmy Carter, respondents in the important “swing states” told Gallup they were NOT better off by a wide 56/40 margin.”
It’s a safe bet that most of the 40% are FOS and lying to themselves. Nobody I know is better off than four years ago. The ones that one better off are working for the “gubmint”.
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