Creating jobs is the only one Bush did not win...The rest is terrific...Combine that with favorablity and 5 % looks solid...I like this poll!
This is the one that really galls me. I understand the why, but by default, Kerry gets a pass here!!! Kerry gets 51% and Senators don't even create jobs. Nothing in this guys record suggests he's ever successfully run a kool-aid stand.....well, ok, bad analogy. How about car wash? He just DOES NOT deserve his 'supposed' lead in job creation.
It galls me to no end that people seem to think that the President can create jobs.
All a President can do is set the stage through policy so industries and businesses can expand, which means more jobs available. Only rising productivity can dampen job creaation in a growing economy. Declining profits quicken the pace of job shedding.
The only jobs that a President can directly create are Presidential Appointmentns or creation of a new Government agency, office, cabinet department or a expanded enlistment for the armed forces.
George W. Bush has done much to set the stage for job creation the past two years. I think that the numbers will tell the tale after the first of the year. It doesn't happen overnight.