[markomalley]

Poll data here

It's about time that people start recognizing where the fault lies...hopefully the pubbies in Congress can turn around the media campaign against them (reflected in their negative numbers)...but at least this shows that people are starting to tire of the "Bush's Fault" meme coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania.

[immadashell]

If Soetoro gets reelected it will be four more years of, “it's Bush's fault”.

[P.O.E.]

"The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making,”

Actually, more like 8 decades, if you want to peg FDR as the head honcho of this whole redistributive fiasco.

[nathanbedford]

Similarly, 53 percent of centrists said Obama has taken the right actions as president to boost the economy, compared with 38 percent who said he had taken the wrong steps.

Seventy-nine percent of centrist voters said Republicans had slowed the economy by taking wrong actions. Only 13 percent of centrists credited GOP lawmakers with policies that have helped the economy.

A few days ago I commented on the apparent anomaly seen in the results of the Rasmussen polls. Rasmussen has Romney and Obama virtually tied in the daily tracking poll for some time now with Romney enjoying the barest lead for the majority of recent times. Rasmussen also has independents in the party breakdown at 30.5%. Virtually all the polls tell us that Romney is doing better than Obama among the independents. Yet, Romney cannot seem to break away or profit from his presumed bulge among independents.

To make matters more confusing, this article uses a new term, "centrists." One can presume that these are "independence" or "undecideds" or something else. Their very peculiar idea that a Republican Congress which was absolutely impotent for two of the last 3 1/2 years is responsible for the course of the country's economic affairs is ludicrous.

In the face of such an absurdity one is tempted to say that the poll must have it wrong or, if the poll is roughly correct, the failure is not in the reality but in the Republican message machine.

Whatever the cause, I think we have to take the numbers very seriously because they might just explain why in the face of this economic wasteland Obama escapes his well earned blame and why the polling numbers seem to be stuck around 50-50.

The reality that Obama enjoyed super majorities in Congress until the voters repudiated him and 2010 seems to have no persuasive effect among these "centrists" against the naked assertion by Obama that the Republican Congress has been obstructionist. This is such a fatuous argument that one can hardly credit it. Nevertheless, according to this poll, the people who decide the election (assuming "centrists" = Independents) accept this preposterous assertion and might return Obama took office.

Obviously these "centrists" are either committed Democrats and not independents, or, if independents, they are among the most ignorant of potential voters. If it is the former, one must ask what sort of party breakdown are we talking about in this poll. If the latter, we must redouble our efforts to state the obvious in a way that is convincing and compelling.

[DeaconRed]

No Way.
Everybody knows it's Bushs' Fault. . . .

[wayoverontheright]

“The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making,” he told an audience last month in Cleveland.

Perhaps that's somewhat true, but the economy could be turned around in a matter of months.

First, rescind Sarbanes-Oxley, Obamacare, and Dodd-Frank. Reduce cap gains tax and eliminate taxes on dividends. Reduce corporate income tax rate to 15%. Allow repatriation of foreign profits at zero rate for two years (or permanently).

Begin privatization of Fannie Mae and Fredddy Mac to be completed in five years.

Eliminate EPA while approving Keystone Pipeline and allow drilling off shore and on public lands.

Pass legislation allowing for across-the-board deductiblity of health insurance premiums along with tort reform to lower mal-practice insurance for doctors.

Leave Bush tax rates in effect for two years and work towards gradual implementation of fair tax or national sales tax. Make it a federal crime for any elected congress-person to utilize the word "rich" in any discussion of tax reform.

Sell off some federally held public lands and return all others to states. Eliminate federal department of education and return education to state control.

Sit back and watch economic engine rev, revenues rise, and budget deficit begin to close rapidly.

One can dream.....

[LS]

Wait til the see “Dark Knight Rises” then they really will have no sympathy for OWS or Obama.

[Gabrial]

Facts are facts, and Americans are not as stupid as Obama’s experience in South Chicago leads him to believe. The facts are Obama has been the most fiscally irresponsible leader in the history of the modern world.

The $5,000,000,000,000.00 in debt Obama has racked up has done more to destroy America than any enemy anywhere in the world.

[CriticalJ]

The survey actually over sampled Republicans by 1%.

That is very unusual these days.

[KC_Conspirator]

Voters should blame him its his fault. He has had 4 years to fix it and only made it worse.

[Tzimisce]

And yet I’m told a majority of them are going to vote Obama anyway??????????????

[ScottinVA]

53 percent of centrists said Obama has taken the right actions as president to boost the economy, compared with 38 percent who said he had taken the wrong steps.

What about this hard push to socialism do these "centrists" like? Or... maybe they're not "centrists" at all. Liberals are fond of calling their ideology "mainstream" and "middle of the road."

[arrogantsob]

Apparently a large minority of voters is permanently confused and/or ignorant.

[daivid]

I'm tired of the excuses.

President Obama does not know how America works. Period.

He continues to spout left-leaning rhetoric and to blame President Bush. People just want a statesman who will lead the nation out of the economic funk, not a blame-shifter.