Posted on 07/22/2011 7:48:04 AM PDT by Hojczyk
n the first year and a half of Obama’s presidency, polls showed that while Americans agreed that the economy is bad, they remained optimistic that it was turning around. That optimism faded in the late spring of 2010 and a consensus that it is bad and getting worse has congealed ever since. But, until recently, voters have refused to blame Obama for the bad economy and still pinned the main responsibility on former President George W. Bush.
Now that has changed. According to a new FOX News survey (July 17-19, 2011), voters now believe that Obama’s economic policies are making things worse. While only 34% feel they are making things better, 49% believe his policies are making things worse.
And key constituency groups on whom the president must rely agree with the view that his policies are hurting. Independents agree they are worsening the situation by 30-50. Voters under 35 agree by 28-45. All white voters agree by 26-58. If young people and Independents run out on Obama, he is finished.
Even among subgroups that still feel Obama’s policies are working, the support is barely above 50%. Nonwhites think that Obama’s efforts are helping to make things better by 56-24 and Democrats agree by 58-17 that they are improving things. But these tepid margins are scarcely the stuff of which rapid support is made.
Meanwhile, pessimism about the economy’s future is intensifying. 58% of all voters think things are getting worse while only 26% see an improvement. One year ago, 52% said the economy was getting worse and 35% saw it improving.
Overall, Obama’s job approval has inched down in the FOX News poll steadily since his bin Laden high. On May 15-17 it stood at 55%. By June 5-7 it had dropped to 48%. On June 26-28, it was down to 46% and in the most recent poll on July 17-19, 2011 it had fallen to 45%.
And, according to other polls, Obama trials a generic Republican candidate and now only runs even with the strongest Republican alternative — Mitt Romney — at 45% apiece. Since the undecided vote always goes against the incumbent, this is truly a dismal showing.
Polls reflect a key message: Voters are waking up!
About time since Zero has been trashing the economy for 2.5 years.
Obuggery sucks!
Because the MSM media TOLD them to think that. When ask people "why do you blame Bush?", they have absolutely NO answer.
That’s good but not enough, and the folks have to learn that it’s LEFTISTS who destroy economies, not just one President.
slow learners, but they’re catching on.
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Ummm, good news?
/tentatively sticking head up from the foxhole
To pull up a Hilly-Billy-ism: “Now it’s time to hang the dead chicken around the dog’s neck.”
Geez....no kidding. There are a lot of hardheaded people in this country. Seems a large minority need to be banged over the head to get it.
It’s about time! Sometimes I question the minds of 1/2 of our country. We are knee deep in Sh!t in the country, thanks to them and it took them 21/2 years to realize their error. Amazing. No, amazingly stupid! Next time do the homework and don’t fall for “the silver tounged devil” again. Germans did and they did - learn a lesson, please people.
So? Obama’s $1B (much illegal from overseas) will so flood the airwaves with lies that people won’t know who to believe.
“slow learners, but they’re catching on.”
Think they’ll get when they’re living in a cardboard box?
IMHO...everything was going along swimmingly until 2005-2006 when the MSM and Nancy Pelousy started prattling about “the worst economy EVER”...and the Dems took the Congress in 2006 with the complicity of the MSM.
Its not altogether ‘Bammy’s fault...but that of his enablers and the Democrat Party.
Who’s the slow learner? July 19 Election in WI. Dems 3, US 0.
The Dems/unions got their voters to the polls.
The GOP/TeaParty was clueless what game they were playing. They apparently had no idea that the game is about who actually scores points at the polls. The GOP/TeaParty apparently thought points were scored, not by players, but by the noise created by the spectators.
The Subprime Housing Bubble was going to burst, no matter what. It was inevitable. However, yes, you are correct that the Democrats are interfering with our economic recovery.
Morris must be hurting for material. He takes a poll published by Fox and rewrites it as if it is his. Granted, he gives Fox credit. But his readers will say, “Dick Morris says...,” not, “A Fox poll rewritten by Dick Morris says...” And that is his intended effect, I’m sure. POS.
I notice a lot of this going on in the lamestream.
I did not vote for him -because I saw enough of his campaign to know he was a Communist. I can’t recall ANYTHING he has done-or signed —or supported that I could consider in Americas’ best interest. Like the Gays he represents everything he says is a destructive LIE. The economy -and everything he has touched has been defiled.And until we have an American in the White House and not the Enemy of America we can only expect things to continue to go badly.
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