Group: Public skeptical about economy (Pew Research Center)

[sabra]

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/business/13700941.htm

Group: Public skeptical about economy

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - People are skeptical about the economy despite recent encouraging signs, with worries about the costs of gas, heating oil and health care.

Views of the economy show sharp partisan differences, with Republicans far more likely to be optimistic than either Democrats or independents, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

"There's not as much economic optimism as might be warranted by hard economic indicators," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, said Tuesday. "I was surprised by the growing gap between the way Republicans and the rest of the public see the national economy."

About a third, 34 percent, said economic conditions today are excellent or good, while 64 percent said only fair or poor. That's up slightly from the 25 percent who said in October that economic conditions are excellent or good, but down slightly from 39 percent who felt that way right after Bush was re-elected.

[UpInArms]

1. "Views of the economy show sharp partisan differences"

My word! That koolaide must be some powerful stuff!

[Theres-a]

2. *snarf*

Nice!!!!!

[Demeter]

3. The Only Hard Data Is What An Individual Experiences

The rest is made-up numbers of made-up quantities. There hasn't been truth in economics in any GOP administration since Eisenhower.

[AX10]

4. republicans are blindly partisan, that's why.

if they were broke on the street, they'd say everthings just swell. :puke:

[hatrack]

5. Gee, I wonder why!

:eyes:

[K-W]

6. "despite recent encouraging signs"

Huh?

[Tempest]

7. He meant to say

"Despite recent encouraging spin".

[area51]

8. "Public skeptical about economy"

Gosh, I wonder why? </sarcasm>

It could be b/c anyone who's lost a job & tried to get another knows that the economy's not doing well @ all, to put it charitably.