Posted on 05/07/2020 4:01:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Nearly half of Americans believe the US would be faring better in the coronavirus pandemic if Barack Obama were president instead of Donald Trump, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
The survey found that a wide plurality of adults (47 percent) think the hard-hit U.S. — where more than 1.2 million COVID-19 infections have been reported and more than 73,000 people have died — would be in better shape under Obama than under Trump.
Only 24 percent of Americans say the crisis would be the same; only 29 percent say it would be worse. And though partisans are predictably split — 79 percent of Democrats say Obama would have made things better while 67 percent of Republicans say he would have made things worse — a plurality of independents (45 percent) side with the Democrats.
The unfavorable comparison between the current president and his Democratic predecessor is one of the clearest signs to date of an emerging dynamic that will define the remainder of Trump’s term and the presidential election.
Americans don’t just disapprove of aspects of Trump’s coronavirus response. Instead, they increasingly blame the size and severity of the U.S. outbreak on Trump himself.
As a result, disapproval of the way Trump has handled the pandemic rose to a new high of 53 percent in the poll. A majority of Americans now say Trump deserves most (35 percent) or some (19 percent) of the blame for the deadly pathogen’s spread in the U.S. — and nearly two-thirds say Trump could have “reduced the damage done by COVID-19” a lot (43 percent) or somewhat (21 percent) “if he had he acted sooner.”
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Mitt Romney is an arse, but he was sure right about the 47%.
who was interviewed, Don Lemon’s cousins?
NO.
Don Lemon’s boyfriends.
Not surprising since the same people and then sone were stupid enough to elect the 0bomb twice!
Only the 1/2 wits...
Barack Obunghole would be playing golf.
Propaganda machine: mission accomplished.
Romney and the 47%....
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Can’t remember. Was it they are too lazy to work and want welfare?
Just compare h1n1, swine Flu, mers, Sars... against Wuhan flu.
Trump easily wipes the floor with the Zero !
Who is 0bama?
Romney was caught on a hot mike telling the truth. That 47% covered not only those who are too lazy to work and want welfare, but those who wanted cushy jobs as bureaucrats, administrators, the ruling class and enablers.
Romney....
Thanks. For once he was right. Still a conniving, sneaky RINO, though.
Yahoo news is trying to supplant the Communist Party’s paper the Peoples Weekly World for the worst news source in the country, and is winning.
If Obama had to address the coronavirus pandemic, he would have taken 2 years to set up a commission to study it, then hire Dr. Gosnell to direct research on the virus and how to kill more babies.
After that, he would create something like “Newsome’s Nazis”, young leftist to go out an spy on people who didn’t appear to be obeying Dur Furher’s stay in place orders. They would be known as “Barack’s Homey Organization” and would be taught how to march down the streets of our cities and towns in lockstep , all the while singing “Deutchland, Deutchland Uber Alles”.
Yes, Obama would have created a “Fourth Reich” under the guise of containing the virus, just as Hitler created the Nuremberg Laws to “contain” the Jews. His top medical advisors would be old Communist Party doctor Quentin Young (his personal physician for many years) and Dr. Mengele Ezekiel Emanual, the psycho progenitor of “age genocide” and brother of his advisor Rahm Emanuel, the later failed mayor of Chicago (aka the city known as “The Shooting Gallery”).
Democrats are not only fools, ignoramuses and crooks, the top ones are traitors to America with their blind obedient to any Marxist/Islamist/black racebaiter who comes along (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jessie Smollett, Joy Reid, etc).
The media is our enemy.
They don’t report anything about Trump without a hard Leftist bent one.
We must do something about the media.
Yahoo news is the totally “BRAIN DEAD” version of the NY Times.
Yep. As the old saying goes, even a blind squirrel can find an acorn once in awhile.
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