And Now Comes The CBS Poll

[Kathianne]

Poor Obama, he's not catching any more breaks.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...61-503544.html

A majority of Americans have a negative impression of the economy and expect the effects of the recession to linger for years, according to a new CBS News poll.
Most also say President Obama has spent too little time on the economy, which Americans cite as the country's most important problem by a wide margin.

Three in four Americans now say the effects of the recession will last another two years or more. More than eight in 10 say the condition of the economy is bad, up five points from last month.

Just 25 percent of Americans say the economy is getting better - down from 41 percent in April. About half say it is staying the same, and the remaining quarter stay it is getting worse.

More than half of Americans - 52 percent - say Mr. Obama has spent too little time dealing with the economy.

And with unemployment near 10 percent, the economy is their priority: Thirty-eight percent volunteer it as the country's most important problem. That far outpaces the percentage that cited the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan (seven percent), health care (six percent), the deficit (five percent), and the oil spill in the Gulf (five percent).

The county's most important economic problem, Americans say, is jobs, volunteered by 38 percent of respondents. Coming in a distant second was the national debt, the deficit and spending, cited by 10 percent in the poll, which was conducted between July 9th and 12th.

Just 27 percent of Americans say their local job market is good. Seventy-one percent call it bad. Nearly one in four expect their household finances to get worse over the next year, twice the percentage that expects their finances to improve...

[red states rule]

Now that is the change we need!

[Kathianne]

and here's Bill Press's rant on yesterday's results:

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[KarlMarx]

Obama is inept, he's the Barney Fife of Presidents




Obama probably has the same stunned look on his face when he views the latest economic figures

[Trigg]

Great so if you don't like what Obama is doing and what he's accomplished it's because you're spoiled children who are impatient.

Lets forget that MOST Americans don't like the health care bill that was shoved down our throats.

Lets forget that MOST Americans don't like the fact that this country is in debt up to our eyeballs and the gov. just keeps spending money.

Nope, it must be because we're spoiled.

[jon_forward]

when you control the money presses money becomes a non-issue. //research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?graph_id=13009

[red states rule]

Another laughable excuse from the liberal media on Obama's tanking poll numbers

Eleanor Clift actually says Obama's numbers are down because he has not blamed Pres Bush enough.

Confidence in President Obama as the agent of change to restore the economy and chart a positive course has deteriorated to the point where nearly six in 10 voters say they “lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country,” according to the latest Washington Post/ABC poll. The president’s overall approval rating remains a relatively healthy 50 percent, with Democrats backing him (82 percent), independents faltering (47 percent), and Republicans unified in withholding their support (15 percent).

Obama inherited a big mess, and people are frustrated that he hasn’t fixed the economy. Counseling patience together with a show of resolve and determination helped President Reagan weather the storm in his first midterm election under conditions remarkably similar to today. Unemployment stood at 10.8 percent when voters went to the polls in November 1982, and Reagan’s numbers were 49-47, almost identical to Obama’s (50-47).

One key difference: Obama hasn’t done as good a job as Reagan of blaming his predecessor. Jimmy Carter for years served as the GOP’s version of Herbert Hoover while Obama let George W. Bush slip away into the ether, a former president so invisible that he might as well be in a witness-protection program. Bush’s upcoming book, Decision Points, won’t be released until a week after the November election, reinforcing the GOP’s decision to keep the unpopular president out of the mix in the midterms.

The gloomy numbers mean little for Obama looking forward to 2012 as they will change radically many times over before then. The disenchantment stems mainly from the things Obama had to do to stabilize the economy, and which have been tarred as government overreach even as they worked to pull the economy back from the abyss but fell short in making life better for average Americans. Campaigning on a slogan of things could have been worse is not a winning platform.

Obama has the right message in asking voters to make a choice: do they want to go back to the policies that got us into the mess, or stick with him—and the Democratic Congress—in getting us out of the mess, however slowly and painfully. Obama is on the campaign trail for his fellow Democrats, but when a president is not on the ballot, history tells us it’s hard for him to yank his party across the finish line. Reagan couldn’t do it in 1982, but his slogan, “Stay the Course,” kept Republicans together, and they lost a manageable 26 seats in the House and held their own in the Senate, a result that Obama would call a victory.

The disappointment in Obama could translate into a windfall for Republicans in the fall if the GOP can keep the focus on Obama’s failure to meet the expectations he raised as a candidate, as opposed to their own shortcomings. One notable finding in the poll is that voters like Republicans even less than Democrats, and that was not the case in 1994, the last time the GOP engineered the kind of upheaval they’re hoping for in November. The GOP then had a charismatic leader in Newt Gingrich along with a crop of insurgents that the broader electorate saw as plausible, as opposed to the Tea Party candidates getting headlines today for who can be the wackiest.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/13/c...he-course.html

[Kathianne]

Great so if you don't like what Obama is doing and what he's accomplished it's because you're spoiled children who are impatient.

Lets forget that MOST Americans don't like the health care bill that was shoved down our throats.

Lets forget that MOST Americans don't like the fact that this country is in debt up to our eyeballs and the gov. just keeps spending money.

Nope, it must be because we're spoiled.

and that was my point in posting the drivel.

[red states rule]