I can’t help but wonder how well Rassmussen polls correlate on a week-by-week basis with other polls.
The electorate is Stuck On Stupid.
Rasmussen just pegged 50% of its respondents as ‘too stupid to live’
The Right ceded the MSM/Hollywood/Academia to the Left long ago.
These are the results of handing them our entire communication culture in America.
Propaganda works!
Wow. If true, this country is about done. I saw another story elsewhere about Obama being one of the most admired people in the country. Hard to find hope for the future when the whole country is completely nuts.
Don’t include this voter in your tally; I have never seen spending like this congress has been spending.
Never underestimate the Regime Media’s ability to to fool the sheep.
His poll is flawed,it should be Democrat control.
That headline is somewhat misleading. Blaming the problems on the recession and blaming Bush are two different things...
It was the Congress, during the last two years of the Bush Administration that spent the money. The President can’t just spend money unless Congress wants him to. That Congress was under Democratis control. So guess who you have to blame.
Bush is gone for two years and the idiots still blame HIM for the economy. All those years of the LSM attacking him and blaming him for everything short of the assassination of JFK really had an effect on voters’ psyche.
Ignorance IS bliss
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...
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.
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
If Bush is guilty of anything, it is not vetoing enough. DumBO is guilty of spending too much.
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.