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 presidents $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 countrys political system is working, more blame the Republicans in Washington than the president.
For all of Obamas well-documented woes, these and other results in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll underscore that politics are comparative, the publics economic ire is omnidirectional and its 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, its 49-34 percent, Obamas first significant advantage over the GOP on jobs in ABC/Post polling since early 2010.
The presidents 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 presidents hardly out of the woods.
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Where’s that BS-O-Meter thingy?
This is push polling by the “beneficiaries” of that pseudo-stimulus bill...
Plan!! ...I don't see no stink'n plan??
Fifty-two percent support the plan
Probably need to take a close look at who was polled.
welfare queens, government employees, and Democrats might have been overrepresented.
The problem with the poll is that the democrats were not listed as a choice.
LOL, this poll is so that Obama can say he is running against the House leadership.
What a crock.
this is scary....we all know those ABC/WaPo polls are the most unbiased and reliable
spin it any way you can...
Exactly and well said...
PUSH POLL.
Force the Democrats to pass it. Damn the spinless GOP, do NOT blink.
If you ask people do they support a jobs plan, most will answer in the affirmative. Ask them if they support a new stimulus, most will not. Ask them if they support half a trillion in new spending, most will not.
I didn’t look at the question specifics yet, but my guess is they just called it “job plan” instead of either a “stimulus” or “spending” bill.
Don't underestimate the ability of the media to move the masses of stupid sheep towards the poison fountain of HopeyChange.
Drink little sheep, your One the shepherd knows best how to take care of you.
“Manufactured bunkum for the Leftist masses”
It will do it’s job by convincing the uneducated and uniformed that if the majority of people approve of it, then they should too.
The Junk Media loves these sorts of polls since it tends to validate their existing story lines. Since most of the people who respond to this poll neither pay much attention nor vote, these tend to follow exactly the story line the "news media" is currently pushing. These people usually can be relied upon to just recite what ever the last headline or broadcast news blurb said.
ABC is transparently pushing the DNC directed fable that 0 is the "new Truman" running against the "do nothing Congress". What ABC was careful to cover up the 5 point+ advantage the GOP Congress holds over the Democrats in Congress on what voters consider the top issues of the nation.
Yeah, he might be making some headway....he is actively going around on our dime promoting his socialist agenda.
The Republican leadership, otoh, has snuck off into a corner and is sucking their thumb.
How about the Republicans letting their testicles drop, and go on their OWN “education tour”, showing people how Hussein’s plan is nothing but Porkulus Part IV?
Hussein is not going to shut his insufferable pie hole—all this assclown knows how to do is TALK and make speeches to fawning audiences and media. So be an alternate VOICE out there, Republicans!
The only constant opposition to Hussein everyday is Rush Limbaugh. And Free Republic.
The Washington Post isn’t even covering this poll, this way.
This poll is terrible for the Messiah. The jobs bill only helps him with his crazy base. Everyone else has turned Obama out.
Read and rejoice!
The problem with a poll like this, is that Congress is not a nationally elected office...of course everyone is mad at Congress.By that I mean, they are all mad at everyone else’s representative. They all believe they have the good one, and everyone else has the one that is ruining the country. So, when it comes to election time they will still vote for their own. ABC does not want to point this out because it will hurt their “people are going to vote out Congress template”
Oh bull ****ing sh!t!
LLS
LOL, great poll!!
Let’s see here:
Owner of polling company former 10 year employee of ABC
National Adults surveyed without any indication as to demographic %
Commissioned by 2 of the most liberal media sources in the free world
Weekend poll
I wouldn’t bet the farm on this one.
The libs continue to lie and try to support Bozo the WH clown. If this was true then 52% of Americans are total frickin' idiots. It, however, isn't true.
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