Posted on 07/05/2011 2:03:41 PM PDT by markomalley
Barack Obama has now been president for more than 29 months, yet in none of those months has a majority of Americans believed the nation’s economy is getting better rather than worse, according to the Gallup poll.
In fact, in no month of Obama’s presidency has belief that the economy is getting better exceeded 41 percent among American adults, a peak it reached in April 2010 and again in January 2011.
In the most recent three day-period reported by Gallup—July 1-July 3—only 31 percent of Americans said they believed the economy was getting better. Meanwhile, 63 percent said they believed it was getting worse.
Each day, Gallup asks approximately 500 American adults a simple question: Do they think that economic conditions in the country as a whole are getting better or getting worse? Gallup then regularly publishes the most recent three-day average percentage for each answer, while periodically publishing the monthly averages.
While 41 percent is the highest percentage of Americans who told Gallup they believed the economy was getting better during any month of the Obama presidency, there have been some three-day periods in which a somewhat higher percentage told Gallup they believed the economy was getting better.
However, since the three-day period ending on Oct. 15, 2009, according to day-by-day data released by Gallup, the percentage of Americans who said in any three-day period that they believed the economy was getting better peaked at 46 percent on Dec. 30, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.
The last time as many as 40 percent of Americans said they believed the economy was getting better was in the three-day period that ended on Feb. 16, 2011.
In June, belief that the economy was getting better never rose higher than 34 percent in any three-day period.
Because the tactics of smoke and mirrors and blaming Bush only works on 0bama's Core Constituency, who have no clue about economics and don't work anyway.
Epic fail
All that matters is what they believe in October 2012, and the media will tell them that things are rosy, and they will believe.
. . . “yet in none of those months has a majority of Americans believed the nation’s economy is getting better rather than worse, according to the Gallup poll”.
Sadly, a “majority” of those folks will once again vote for this loser and empty suit in 2012.
It all makes no friggin sense! Every poll shows most believe things are bad and getting worse. Obama has approval on his economic policy below 40%. He is around 40% approval any many other issues. yet he manages approval ratings near or above 50%. How? Who could honestly say he’s done a good job?????
The polls are being cooked
One big potemkin village.
Which is why I firmly believe he will win easily in 2012. Despite how awful things are both domestically and internationally, he has 50% approval. He doesn’t have do a single thing differently and he wins. I’ve never seen someone so immune to bad news.
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