Posted on 10/05/2011 8:19:18 AM PDT by toma29
Barack Obama has jumped to a 15-point lead over the Republicans in Congress in trust to handle job creation, a sign the beleaguered president’s $450 billion jobs package has hit its mark in public opinion. Fifty-two percent support the plan – and most say it just might work.
Overall approval of the U.S. Congress, meanwhile, has dropped to its lowest in polls dating back to the mid-1970s. And of the eight in 10 Americans who are dissatisfied with the way the country’s political system is working, more blame the Republicans in Washington than the president.
For all of Obama’s well-documented woes, these and other results in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll underscore that politics are comparative, the public’s economic ire is omnidirectional – and it’s possible to move the bar.
A month ago, Americans divided evenly, 40-40 percent, on whom they trusted more to handle job creation, Obama or the congressional Republicans. Now, after his jobs proposal and ongoing promotion of his plan, it’s 49-34 percent, Obama’s first significant advantage over the GOP on jobs in ABC/Post polling since early 2010.
The president’s also maintained a large advantage over the Republicans in Congress in being seen as more concerned with the interests of middle-class Americans, now 52-32 percent. And the GOP, by a vast 70-17 percent, is seen as being more concerned than Obama with protecting the interests of the wealthy, a sentiment on which Obama has capitalized with his proposed millionaires’ tax.
THE WOODS – The president’s hardly out of the woods.
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Both are equally likely explanations.
What a Joke Nancy and Harry had a 9% approval rating while they were leaders in the house and Senate.
He’ll try, though. Funny how Obama was called the next coming of FDR. Then Lincoln. Then Reagan. Now Harry Truman. All with that 800 pound Jimmah gorilla hanging from the chandelier.
Yes he will. It will be a cornerstone of his campaign strategy.
I still say our side sucks at marketing.
Our congressmen need to bypass the MSM and do YouTube...
Specifically: write some bills and market them for overturning the Frank/Dodd bank fees,bills for overturning EPA, explanation why free speech is fine, but the protestors taking down Wall St is stupid and explain why. When common sense is “perpetuated”, MSM can’t say anything and hopefully these brains full of useless mush will improve. Now these CommiePossies are trying to recruit college kids. Gee, do you think it’s Van Jones per orders from Obama? Hmmmm????
Heard this on the radio news (ABC during Beck’s show) this morning. Almost drove off the road laughing.
Just a bit of propaganda from the administration’s unofficial Ministry of Public Information over at ABC.
Manufactured bunkum for the Leftist masses.
Maybe Obama is trying to lose.Doesn’t he get to keep all the money he raises if he doesn’t use it..He is so far using our money for travel, meals, etc..So the money could be his little nest egg to live the style he is become accustom too..Every time the fools opens his mouth he sticks his foot...
ABC poll, which did not ask about if people are fed up of Dem but they did ask if people are blaming the GOP
What a crock of crap this is all, ABC doing a biased poll and then reporting it as if it was a true reflection of the population
Time to march on these networks and demand they stop being corrupt for this admin
Look at the question they ask if people blame republicans but do not ask the question do they blame the Dems
The whole poll is so biased in how they asked these question and now ABC reports this as FACT
The pro queer, cross dressing liberal biased corrupt media at it again and then they have the nerve to say they’re not biased
IMO, this is pure BS, ka ka, Liberal spin. RATs are TOAST; all of them at least where their Constituents have brain cells functioning.
Let me get this right.
A large majority of Americans don’t trust Obama’s leadership on the economy.
The Republicans in Congress are doing their best to put a roadblock in front of his plans. (Seemingly a good thing.)
Therefore, the Republicans in Congress are less trustworthy than the Dems on jobs and economic policy. (Say what?)
Somehow this just doesn’t equate. Somebody’s polling is all screwed up.
ABC news?.....all I need to know.
(Barack Obama has jumped to a 15-point lead over the Republicans in Congress in trust to handle job creation, a sign the beleaguered president’s $450 billion jobs package has hit its mark in public opinion. Fifty-two percent support the plan – and most say it just might work.)
Can there really be that many stupid people??
1. Its not even a real plan. Same old shit...
2. The Republicans tried to bring it up for a vote and the Democrats stopped it..
Really people. You gotta buy a clue.............
it matters as this is the criminal liberal media lending the rats a hand in their effort to regain control of the house in ‘12...
“I’m not sure how it matters since Obama will not be running against “the Republicans in Congress” in 2012.”
If he doesn’t run, then the scuttlebutt is that they are going to draft Andrew Cuomo.
“I’m not sure how it matters since Obama will not be running against “the Republicans in Congress” in 2012.”
If he doesn’t run, then the scuttlebutt is that they are going to draft Andrew Cuomo.
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