Bush Still Gets More Blame for Economy Than Obama

[babylonsister]

April 21, 2010
Bush Still Gets More Blame for Economy Than Obama

Of the three party groups, only Republicans say Obama bears more blame than Bush
by Lydia Saad


PRINCETON, NJ -- More than a year into Barack Obama's presidency, Americans are more likely to say George W. Bush is responsible for today's economic problems than they are to say Obama is responsible. Gallup shows a significant uptick since last July in the percentage of Americans blaming Obama at least a moderate amount (from 32% to 50%), but little decrease (from 80% to 75%) in the percentage blaming Bush.



Proportionally, the gap in perceived culpability for current economic problems is even wider when one looks at the percentage blaming each president "a great deal" -- 26% for Obama and 42% for Bush.

Obama has stated that he "inherited the most profound economic emergency since the Great Depression." And while some of his critics dispute the extent of the crisis, there is little debate that he arrived in Washington amid rising unemployment, struggling equity and housing markets, distressed banking and auto industries, and a rapid retreat in consumer spending. Americans in July 2009 clearly recognized that the nation's economic problems preceded Obama's term; at that time, close to half of Republicans (43%) -- in addition to most independents (63%) and nearly all Democrats (92%) -- believed Obama bore little or no responsibility for them.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/127472/Bush-Gets-More-Blame-Economy-Obama.aspx

[kentuck]

1. That tells me...

that most people are not buying the Republican propaganda.

[fugop]

2. There's that number again

Freakin' 24% blame Bush not at all. Not at ALL! Considering that 20% didn't blame Bush at all a year ago, just months into Obama's presidency, I guess we know where the teabaggers are.

Meanwhile, what a bizarre poll. Obviously, they didn't want to show the numbers of who do you blame MORE, so instead they just let people choose to blame both - which, while it's an obvious middle path, makes the poll sort of ... more useless than usual. You don't really get a comparison, so much as a load of people blaming both Bush and Obama.

But I think it's funny that Gallup didn't ask who you blame more, instead hoping it would deflect from Bush to let respondents blame both.

[stray cat]

3. Of course - its like whether to blame an arsenist or a fire fighter for a fire

[liberal N proud]

4. He broke it

Obama is trying to fix it and the Republicans are trying to stop him.

[WI_DEM]

5. Why should Obama? Actually the economy is improving now and Obama deserves credit for that.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. What's so infuriating is that should the economy completely turn around.

in terms of the number of jobs, rest assured that the M$M and the Republicans will award Bush, disregarding how Obama cleaned up the mess.

I mean, why isn't the M$M focusing on the fact that Wall Street has rebounded? Why isn't the M$M praising Obama for being right about the car industry "bailout" (which was really a LOAN, though the M$M continues to wrongly call it a 'bailout')? It's so frustrating how culpable the M$M is.

[Cha]

6. Amazing..with all the lies swirling about by republicons..

of course the republicons think that..their leaders lie for a living.

[Dappleganger]

8. Well he was in charge of destruction for eight fucking years.