ABC/WaPo POLL: Advantage on Aiding the Middle Class Helps Keep Obama’s Approval Afloat

[jefferson_dem]

ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Advantage on Aiding the Middle Class Helps Keep Obama’s Approval Afloat
July 19, 2011 12:25 PM

Most Americans think the Republicans in Congress have got Wall Street and large corporations’ backs, while President Obama prevails on protecting the middle class and small businesses: an edge that helps explain his better-than-dismal job approval in the teeth of a terrible economy.

By a wide 59-26 percent, the public sees congressional Republicans as more concerned than Obama with protecting the economic interests of Wall Street financial institutions, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds. Americans even more broadly, by 67-24 percent, put the GOP ahead when it comes to looking out for the interests of large business corporations.

The tables turn – albeit with much narrower margins – on other measures. Obama leads the GOP by 18 points in looking out for middle-class Americans, 53-35 percent. He also has a 10-point advantage, 47-37 percent, as being more concerned with the economic interests of “you and your family.” And he leads by 9 points, 48-39 percent, on protecting small businesses.

The president’s advantage on small businesses is particularly notable, given the GOP’s efforts to portray his policies as damaging to small-business job creation. While Republicans are fully aboard, independents, the linchpin of national politics, say by 46-39 percent that Obama cares more than GOP leaders about the economic interests of small businesses, a fairly close call but with a tilt in the president’s direction.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/abc-news-poll-advantage-on-aiding-the-middle-class-helps-keep-obamas-approval-afloat.html

[CakeGrrl]

1. This is important.

The general public gets it. They see the President trying to get something done and the Republicans with their heads up their butts.

[HockeyMom]

2. Job Creators

as in Millionaires. Who do they think they are fooling? The American Public has seen jobs by the "job creators" being sent to India, China, and other Third World Countries, because of SLAVE WAGES and more profits for the "job creators". Hell, just listen to Backman. "End the Minimum Wage". Who believes that just ending the minimum wage at the lower end of the pay scale won't work it's way upward? If India pays their IT programmers $4,000 a year, maybe the US should pay their IT workers $3,000 a year, minus benefits, to "compete" with India? Sure corporations would like that, and it would further eliminate the middle class in America, which is what they REALLY WANT. Poor people are much easier to control, and look at all the PROFITS the corporations, er JOB CREATORS, can make.

Wake up, middle class America. It is YOUR future, and your children's, which are on the line.

[Fearless]

3. What if he agrees to cut social programs? What happens then?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. ...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gBSpMs6u-oo/Se30f0mZPKI/AAAAAAAAAdY/N6k1Ohugev8/s400/shooting+yourself+in+the+foot.jpg

[Fearless]

5. +1

[bigwillq]

8. ha ha

Very true.
:thumbsup:

[guruoo]

6. Depends on whether the cut is real. Or not...

Remember how the administration seemed to go with the last Republican demanded spending cuts,
but then turned around and used already allocated, but unspent funds (budget leftovers) to cover the loss?

[Fearless]

9. My question stands. What if he CUTS social programs.

[guruoo]

10. Funny, last one ignored it too.

[ClarkUSA]

7. Most Americans are smarter than the Chicken Littles who are always attacking Pres. Obama.