Poll: Most blame Obama for economy

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Politico

For the first time, a majority of Americans blame President Barack Obama for the nation’s economic problems, according to a new poll Thursday.

A majority - 53 percent - said Obama deserved “a great deal” or a “moderate amount” of the blame for the economic problems that the United States currently faces, the USA Today/Gallup poll shows. This figure has jumped from 32 percent in July 2009, after Obama had only been in office for six months.

Meanwhile, 69 percent said that former President George Bush deserved a “great deal” or a “moderate amount” of blame for the economy, down from a high of 80 percent in July 2009.

Republicans said that Obama was to blame by a margin of 83 percent to 16 percent, while Democrats said that Bush was to blame by a margin of 86 percent to 13 percent, the USA Today/Gallup poll found.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66436.html

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Short memories.

[chrisa]

2. Americans

[Auggie]

22. Media

[cppuddy]

21. Typical RW Gallup BS. Their #s are crap

[Bandit]

28. You don't believe he could have done more over the last three years?

I blame him for siding with Republicans time and time again to prolong this economic mess America is in.. Republicans created it but Obama and the Democrats are not doing much to correct it....If I were to be polled about it I would have to say Obama has blame and it is now his economy.. When he first came to office it was Bush* and the Republican's economy... It is still a Republican economy but run under the Obama Administration..

[Name removed]

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[Bandit]

32. What a brilliant response...

I can tell you are indeed a very wise man.... Now using some of that wisdom please explain just how Obama has corrected the economic mess Republicans left us with? Expanded the "War on Terror"...extended the Bush* tax cuts....put forth an almost completely Republican Health Insurance Bill....I will give him credit for the Stimulus plan, except it was so little that it was doomed to fail and then become a wonderful talking point for the Republicans about how he failed with it...But I am sure you know much more about things...

[get the red out]

3. I've reached a point

where I hate my fellow Americans for the most part. They are absolutely unable to brace themselves against propaganda. My dog has a longer attention span.

[tularetom]

4. That doesn't prove anything

The longer Obama is in office without a drastic improvement in the economy, the more people will associate the slump with him. That's only natural.

And I believe that is why the republicans more or less punted on the 2008 election. They knew how badly bush & co. had screwed things up and that the economy could not be fixed in a single presidential term. Whoever got elected was going to bear an ever increasing share of the blame for the way things were and it would be much better if that person was a Democrat.

So they put up a ticket almost certain to lose. And things worked out the way they hoped. Obama didn't cause any of this. But more and more people have forgotten that he didn't and are now blaming him. And the republicans and their stooges in the liberal media make sure to mention Obama every time they comment on the crappy economy.

That's to be expected. What I don't understand is why a smart guy like the President failed to see this coming.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. It proves that the President will have a tough reelection fight, if

they nominate someone like Romney.

[A wise Man]

31. From 2000 to 2006

rethugs fucked this country goooooooood. Thrown out in 2006 and put back in, in 2010. Now they have been worst more than ever. Now assholes with short memories want to put them back in again...... I've gone asleep and awakened in "TWILITE ZONE IN REVIEW"!!!!!!!!! Just shoot me!!!:wtf:

[Aerows]

6. Why aren't they blaming Wall Street

And the fact that the people who screwed up our economy are living it up on the money they stole from the rest of us? Why aren't they blaming our "regulatory" agencies like the SEC and the Fed who are supposed to be the ones who prevent financial disaster and it was allowed to flourish on their watch? Start looking there.

[JTFrog]

19. They are.

But you don't really expect the media to report or reflect that do you?

[Aerows]

36. Thanks for the reality boost

And LOL, no I don't. It's disgusting, disgraceful, and something we have to change.

Thanks for that candid analysis, though. It was exactly what I needed to see for a change.

[jefferson_dem]

7. Typical Politico bullshit. Recycled story based on old data.

Here for month-old numbers used in the politico write-up: http://www.gallup.com/poll/149600/Slight-Majority-Blame-Obama-Economy.aspx

[Ian David]

8. I blame Harry Reid more than I blame Obama.

Blame, in order of responsibility:

1) G.W. Bush
2) Harry Reid
3) Reagan
4) Clinton
5) Goldman Sachs
6) President Obama
7) Ben Bernanke

[bloomington-lib]

14. Let's throw Greenspan in there too. He allowed a lot of what happened to be possible

[Ian David]

25. You're right. He should be in there, too. n/t

[No Elephants]

18. Clinton, who said he wanted repeal of Glass Steagall on his desk ASAP is

fourth on your list?

Interesting choice.

[Ian David]

26. See also:

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT CLINTON,
PRESIDENT BUSH, PRESIDENT CARTER, PRESIDENT FORD,
AND VICE PRESIDENT GORE
IN SIGNING OF NAFTA SIDE AGREEMENTS
http://www.historycentral.com/documents/Clinton/SigningNaFTA.html

[Javaman]

24. +1 nt

[Kingofalldems]

9. Even the link says this poll is a month old

Why is it being posted in LBN? :shrug:

[No Elephants]

20. Maybe poll results are first being made public?

:shrug:

ETA The story also says it's a "new poll Thursday."

[elocs]

10. Not unexpected. I think there were Americans who had cut Obama slack about the state of the economy

but after nearly 3 years, despite obstructionist Republicans in Congress, they have begun to blame him mostly for things not improving with the economy.

Do even Democrats have a line, 3 years, 4, 5, 6...where they begin to blame Obama for not doing enough to improve the economy, not that he created the mess he inherited?

[Scuba]

11. Most polls are designed to shape opinion, not measure it. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. +1

[treestar]

12. It is moronic to blame any President alone for the economy

Except Bush, due to several of his choices.

And it is moronic not to blame Bush forever. Do these idiots think everything that happened before Obama took office is wiped away after a certain period.

People are idiots, that is all.

[No Elephants]

13. "A great deal or a moderate amount" What the hell kind of poll question is that?

One designed to make President Obama look bad, is my guess.

[JTFrog]

23. The kind that the new DU feeds off of.

Won't be long til the swarm shows up to tell us how true it is and how it's all Obama's fault. :eyes:

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. USA Today/Gallup poll. 'Nuff said.

[ejbr]

17. Geitner/Sumner....you reap what you sow. n/t

[Capitalocracy]

27. Plenty of blame to go around

Pretty ridiculous that those numbers have gone down so much for Bush (although he's still beating Obama by a good margin)

[GoCubsGo]

29. The United States of Amnesia.

Gore Vidal knew exactly what he was talking about when he coined that phrase.

A majority of Americans gave George Bush a second term, too. 'Nuff said.

[uponit7771]

33. -1 Poll says majority STILL blame Bush than Obama, Obama's numbers just increasing over time as it.

[Malikshah]

34. Wow...this and the Ohio post showing Obama struggling. Guess we should

just give up, huh???

Nothing like a cold shower of ammonia in the morning to wake us up to the fact that we're going to LOOOOOSSSSEEEEEEEE!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

Guess to some, the glass is always half-empty.

In the end, it's a matter of choice. I choose to focus on the positive. :)

[Freddie Stubbs]

35. No, it means that we have to work harder

[NYC_SKP]

37. It Burns...

eom.