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Voters Still Pin Bad Economy More On Bush Than Obama
Rasmussen Reports ^ | December 28, 2010 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 12/28/2010 7:58:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Nearly two years into the Obama presidency, voters still believe the nation’s continuing economic problems are due more to President George W. Bush than to the policies of the current occupant of the White House.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters think current economic problems are due primarily to the recession which began under the Bush administration. Forty-two percent (42%) say Obama’s policies are more to blame.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushsfault; rasmussen; stupidpeople
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ignorance IS bliss


21 posted on 12/28/2010 8:22:51 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just as with FDR and Hoover, we can expect this spin to last for decades. It was during Hoover’s admin that the Great depression started but it was Roosevelt’s policies, based on FDR’s economic ignorance and stupid advice of the East Coast academics and leftist radicals, that kept the boot of regime uncertainty on the throat of the economy for another decade.

Obama, Volker, Tiny Tim, the Bernank, Jarret, etc, etc are reading from FDR’s same playbook. Just as the academics wrote self-justifying histories telling how FDR “saved” the economy they will reprise their chorus to tell us how Obama has done likewise. They will hold to this stupid theory as they do to “global warming”. Failing to understand the problem they will continue to offer the wrong solutions whilst congratulating themselves on how much worse things would have been but for their heroic ministrations.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history...


22 posted on 12/28/2010 8:23:04 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: Paine in the Neck
That explains the invention of the "saved or created" job statistics.

Bush lost or created jobs. Obama saved or created them.

-1/+1 vs 0/+1

23 posted on 12/28/2010 8:28:01 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The economic mess we are in now is due to a twenty year cheap credit binge in which investing was replaced by sequential asset bubbles, and savings by credit-fueled consumer spending.

It happened during the administrations of Bush senior, Clinton, and Bush junior more or less without interruption.

Yes, Obama has done all he can to screw things up, but to argue that this all could have been fixed by electing someone else in 2008 is pure fantasy. We have a decade or two of austerity in front of us, even if we start doing everything right.

24 posted on 12/28/2010 8:32:29 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Imagine the parade to celebrate victory in the WoT. What security measures would we need??)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Any defense of Bush has to start with Bush himself. He's better able to do it than little me or little you.

I'm sure the fact that there's not too many Bush defenders who've gone public is because he won't explain or defend himself.....so why should anyone else bother to do it for him?

The Grand Old Party has many thing to thank GW for, but his failure to defend false charges is not one of them. His silence on this economic issue is perceived by many as galling and selfish....and by the enemy as an admission of guilt.

His self-important view of himself as being above everything now that he's out of office hurt the party two years ago on this issue and continues to hurt Republicanism and conservatism immeasurably now.

Leni

25 posted on 12/28/2010 8:36:27 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

Well Leni, he sure defended the September bank bailouts, when by rights he should be hung in effigy for that decision.


26 posted on 12/28/2010 8:39:03 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Imagine the parade to celebrate victory in the WoT. What security measures would we need??)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Bush is guilty of anything, it is not vetoing enough. DumBO is guilty of spending too much.


27 posted on 12/28/2010 8:39:58 AM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s all in the wording. The question asks whether the recession began under Bush OR whether Obama’s policies are to blame. Most people know that Obama didn’t start the recession. He simply made it much worse. Respondents do not BLAME Bush as the healine suggests. They are merely saying that the recession began while he was still in office.

The question poses a false dilemma. It does not give the option of saying that the recession both began under Bush and was made worse by Obama. If they asked THAT question, it would be off the charts negative for Obama, as the last election clearly showed.


28 posted on 12/28/2010 8:40:31 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only in the Democrats dreams


29 posted on 12/28/2010 8:45:19 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bush certainly shares the responsibility, along with many of his predecessors. His tax cuts were excellent, but he did NOTHING to control spending and pork. And he added several expensive and stupid programs, such as No Child Left Behind and Medicare Prescription.

Also, when the Democrats sabotaged him through his Goldman Sachs treasury secretary, and pulled their October surprise propaganda blast that the economy would collapse unless they passed TARP and the Government Motors takeover, Bush stood there with his mouth open and did nothing.

Sure, the main problem is Obama. But Bush helped set him up by his deer-in-the-headlights failure to fight back.

Which is to give him credit, actually. I liked him personally. But the whole Bush family does seem to be part of the NWO machine, I’m afraid. It’s at least possible that he did it on purpose.


30 posted on 12/28/2010 8:46:48 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

George WHO?

Why don’t they poll this question using Wendell Wilkie, Arlo Guthrie or Nelson Eddy while they’re at it. Each of them would likely poll at least 40%.


31 posted on 12/28/2010 8:54:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These numbers tend to correlate with a “Christmas Polling Trend” in the Presidential Approval Poll. Ras has BHO suddenly coming from -19 to -11. IMO this reflects polling noise caused by an over polling of Libtards. This has previously occured around holidays and long weekends. I really don’t know how to account for the shift, but it makes simultaneous polls somewhat suspect.


32 posted on 12/28/2010 8:59:59 AM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt.”

Astounding, thank you for that.


33 posted on 12/28/2010 9:03:04 AM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

began during Bush administration does not correlate to “blame”


34 posted on 12/28/2010 9:15:01 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NOT ANYMORE. o'ZOMBIE just exonerated BUSH by passing Bush's Tax Cut extension.

Can no longer run against BUSH. He will now run against Ronald Reagan. hahahahahaha, took the Reagan BIO to HI. to get tutored. lol.

What an idiot?

35 posted on 12/28/2010 9:18:11 AM PST by annieokie
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To: digger48
That was George H.W. Bush that gets the media blame for that one.

True, but I was illustrating how the media blamed W for damned near everything.

36 posted on 12/28/2010 9:41:47 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Cheetahcat

Here’s the thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2648082/posts


37 posted on 12/28/2010 9:58:49 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A new Rasmussen survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters would drown if they looked up during a rainstorm.


38 posted on 12/28/2010 10:36:18 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Tralala boom-dee-aye!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Here’s the thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2648082/posts";

Thank you for the link.


39 posted on 12/28/2010 11:21:47 AM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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