Posted on 06/09/2011 2:51:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Forty-eight percent say that another Great Depression is likely to occur in the next year - the highest that figure has ever reached. The survey also indicates that just under half live in a household where someone has lost a job or are worried that unemployment may hit them in the near future. The poll was conducted starting Friday, when the Labor Department reported that the nation's jobless rate edged up to 9.1 percent.
"The poll reminded respondents that during the Depression in the 1930s, roughly one in four workers were unemployed, banks failed, and millions of Americans were homeless or unable to feed their families," says Holland. "And even with that reminder, nearly half said that another depression was likely in the next 12 months. That's not just economic pessimism - that's economic fatalism."
According to the survey, more than eight in ten Americans say that the economy is in poor shape, a number that has stubbornly remained at that level since March.
Not surprisingly, with that much economic angst, the economy is the number one issue, the only one that more than half of the public says will be extremely important to their vote for president next year. Nearly all issues that at least four in ten say will be extremely important to their vote are domestic issues. Terrorism also makes that list, but Afghanistan is fairly low and Libya is tied for dead last out of the 15 issues tested. Abortion and gay marriage also rank very low, indicating that 2012 may be an election that is shaped more by bread-and-butter issues than social and moral concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
.....being the three term Governor of the state that has added more jobs over the past decade than all other states combined is going to be damn compelling. Not to mention presiding over one of the few states without budgetary woes while having one of the lowest tax burdens in the Country.
Indeed.
Americans should study up a bit on Rick Perry's life and political career.
A good thing to remember is the proof is in the pudding (so to speak). Perry was Bush's Lt. Gov and much was made of what a weak office "Governor" is in TX -- that the Lt Gov held the strings of the state. So Perry has done both, assuming the Gov. office when Bush was elected to the WH.
Before everyone gets so wrapped around the axle, they should start thinking how Rick Perry looks to the country, as compared to Mitt Romney. The economy will drive the voters first and foremost and Romney believes that spot is his.
But wait! Romney has a HUGE anchor called Mass. Health Care, no current state success story (TX "created" 38% of ALL jobs in the country this last accounting) and despite being attractive and possessing a pleasing voice, Mitt just isn't charismatic (and the idea that he's the chosen one is very off-putting -- to say the least).
Perry's social issues are solid. And he is not inflexible about voter's opinions. He is not a dictator-style leader.
Perry puts a face on the border issues.
He hunts (picked off a coyote when it attacked a family dog during a walk).
He runs an oil/energy state.
He goes after Barack Obama and his failure to lead.
I think Perry and Palin would make a very attractive ticket -- how they're billed will be decided in the months ahead.
Some have commented that Michele Bachmann might be being groomed by the Bush-McCain campaign team to pair up with Mitt Romney. It crossed my mind too. Your thoughts?
I think Greta Van Susteren should take a trip around TX (it's not North Korea!) and show the jobs, the construction, the growth -- what the country could be experiencing.
Might be. How awkward for the Democrats.
Please give your reasons philman_36. I’d like to know.
I find it interesting that whenever a replacement for the amateur is mentioned by the lamestream media, it’s never Sarah Palin who is mentioned. It’s like they’re floating trial balloons for someone, anyone but her.
Why?
In my view it’s because she is the only one who presents a threat to their hegemony.
I would like to think that you consider me to be of good judgement after years of replying to your posts.
This CNN report doesn’t pitch Perry. That’s entirely Cincinatus’ Wife’s nonsequitor jump in logic.
I've noticed that too. The oh so obvious "elephant" in the room. When her name is brought up it's usually, "I don't think she will run." She hasn't announced." "She has more power not being president." "Her negatives are too high." And so on...
Dear Lurker, I've linked to an article that does mention Perry (and the economy) and asked for discussion because the economy and Perry are linked. I'd like to know your opinion if you want to add it.
No attempt to lead the public along by the noses there.
We CAN hear what our wallets are telling us.
I’m happy for your opinion philman_36. We do have a long history of comment exchanges. I’m thinking tactically. If you had a P and P ticket vs a R and B ticket (just supposing) how would you go? (I realize I’m giving you a straight line)
True. No need for a push poll -- but a need to make CNN look informed -- credible....??
Isn’t it funny that the Paulites so seldom read the articles?
CNN has been failing at that for years, LOL!
He won despite the push by establishment GOP to elect Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Rick Perry’s Tenth Commandment
"......Speaking of presidents: Rick Perry has a complicated relationship with the Bushes, which is to say that he’s hesitant to criticize them and they hate his guts. W. stayed well away from Perry’s gubernatorial-primary melee against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose oatmeal-mushy Republicanism has a distinctly Bushian savor to it. But the mark of W. was all over the campaign against Perry. Former president George H. W. Bush endorsed Senator Hutchison, an unusual step for the habitually reserved retiree, who usually stays well removed from the dirty business of vote-grubbing, surveying the groundlings from the heights of his eminence. Bush père was joined in his support by former vice president Dick Cheney, who offered an endorsement and called Hutchison “the real deal.” Hutchison was further fortified by the Bush clan’s in-house Machiavelli, former secretary of state James Baker, who led the Florida recount fight in 2000 and remains their go-to fixer. W. mouthpiece Karen Hughes came out of the political woodwork to support the insurgency, along with W.’s secretary of education Margaret Spellings. Karl Rove advised Team Hutchison. The gang was all there: All this in a primary challenge to unseat an incumbent Republican governor with one of the most conservative — and most successful — records to be found: Que paso, Bushes?
Part of that was payback. Perry, generally circumlocutious on the subject of W., gave himself a little time off the leash during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. Often caricatured as yet another snake-handling southern social conservative, Governor Perry backed thrice-married dress-wearing pro-choice lapsed Catholic Rudy Giuliani, on the theory that Rudy would be a badass commander-in-chief abroad and a reliable constitutionalist at home. Politics being politics, the Texan and the New Yorker met up in Iowa, where more than a few Hawkeye conservatives were already getting restive about out-of-control federal spending on the Republicans’ watch. Governor Perry let loose the observation that “George” — and the Bushies hate it when Perry calls him “George” in public — “has never been a fiscal conservative.” Never? “Wasn’t when he was in Texas . . . ’95, ’97, ’99, George Bush was spending money.” He also criticized Bush as being limp on immigration.
The truth hurts, but there’s more to the Bush-Perry friction than that. One longtime observer of Lone Star politics described the Bushes’ disdain of Perry as “visceral,” and it is not too terribly hard to see why. The guy that NPR executives and the New York Times and your average Subaru-driving Whole Foods shopper were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is that guy. George W. Bush was Midland by way of Kennebunkport. Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was. (Governor Perry confesses that one of the politiciany things he’s done in office is insisting that the Texas highway atlas include Paint Creek, making him the hometown boy who literally put the town on the map.) Bush is a Yalie, Perry is an Aggie. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard, and Perry was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130s in the Middle East. Bush has a gentleman’s ranch, Perry has the red meat. The irony is that Perry, a tea-party favorite, personifies the hawkish new fiscal conservatism that has allowed the GOP to find its way out from under George W. Bush’s shadow, but he himself remains in the shade of that politically poisonous penumbra...."
And Perry wants more of the same! NO!
I think the “lamstream media” moniker has stuck. You betcha! Ha!
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