Let's try this same experiment two years from now, when Obama is actually up for reelection, and job growth has started to catch up with the economic uptick.Unless the republicans use their majority to keep that from happening in order to try to recapture the whitehouse.
See thread below on what a lousy press secretary Robert Gibbs is for the reason these people's views are so completely incoherent.Obama surrounded himself with cynical Democratic Party hacks like Emmanuel and Gibbs, and this is the result. A stimulus way to small, mass joblessness, and unhappy voters. He was more interested in 'reaching across the isle' and working with the major power brokers in Washington.
>They may not particularly give a damn about politics and its role in their lives. They may be less materialistic than eastern or western liberals, and have their consciousness focused on love and family, and nature and small satisfactions, rather than power. These people don't live in tenements. They live in a pretty nice part of the world; they have cars; they have TVs and cell phones. They are living their lives, not playing out your political paradigms.So, as long they have their homes and cars and cellphones, they will ignore everything their elected officials do to affect the lives of other people across town, or across the country, or even across the world? That sounds about right. And not to unfairly knock anyone for default human behavior, but this probably isn't the city on the hill that you imagine it to be.
A new national poll released Sunday indicates that eight in 10 Americans say that the economy is in poor shape, and the number that says conditions are very poor is on the upswing after steady declines through the spring.Most disapprove of both GOP and Democrats in Congress
According to the survey, more Americans hold the Republicans responsible than the Democrats, with 44 percent blaming the GOP and 35 percent picking the Democrats.
"And when George W. Bush's name is added to the mix, the number who blame the Republicans rises to 53 percent, with just a third saying that Barack Obama and his party are at fault."
Thirty-four percent of people questioned in the poll approve of the job Democratic leaders in Congress are doing, with 64 percent saying they disapprove of how congressional Democratic leaders are handling their duties. According to the survey 31 percent give Republican congressional leaders a thumbs up, with two out of three disapproving of the job they are doing.Plurality say GOP would do a better job fixing economy
Although more people blame the Republicans than the Democrats for the country's economic problems, a larger number of people think the Republicans are more likely to fix those problems, according to a new national poll.CNN Poll of Polls: GOP holds 8-point advantage
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday indicates that 41 percent of adult Americans say congressional Republicans are more responsible for the nation's economic problems, with 35 percent saying the Democrats are more to blame, and nearly one in five saying both are equally to blame.
But 47 percent of those questioned say the economic policies of congressional Republicans are more likely to improve economic conditions, with 41 percent saying Democrats in Congress have the better prescriptions, five percent saying both have equally good solutions and five percent saying neither are more likely to improve conditions.
"Independents are the key group on these questions," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "By a five-point margin, they tend to blame the GOP for our current economic woes. But they prefer the GOP over the Democrats by 13 points when asked which party can improve economic conditions."
A CNN Poll of Polls compiled and released Friday indicates that 50 percent of likely voters would choose a Republican candidate for Congress if the election were held today, with 42 percent saying they would vote for a Democrat.It's like, wtf America? I get that too many voters don't grasp the finer points of economic policy and history, but I'm having a harder time parsing that majorities of those polled simultaneously blame Republicans for the recession, disapprove of them more in general, and yet think they'd do a better job fixing things and favor them more in the generic ballot.
Right, because Bush did such a wonderful job for people like you and me.Seriously? That's fucking ridiculous. He sounds like he's not as well-informed as he could be, but calling him a racist? Really?
Be honest, you're upset because you voted for the black man.
She does realize that Bush bailed out A.I.G., right?The problem is that republicans try to blame the democrats for all economic measures (and mix them all together). And the democrats don't try to say otherwise. You don't see Obama out there saying, "Bush did X, bush did Y", so of course people don't know. And our news media doesn't bother telling the truth; they just repeat what politicians say. If no politicians don't say it, it's not important.
At a baseline level, the problem here is ignorance.
We're a minority in our own party. Americans aren't charitable people, and do not want a charitable government. Our values, while good, are out of touch with American values.Meh. Polls show that when you actually poll individual issues, people line up with the Democratic Party. When you ask people if they are "conservative" or "liberal" they tend to say conservative, but many people don't consider those terms in terms of the republicans or democrats. For example, most African Americans consider themselves "conservative" but never, ever, vote for republicans. The labels are fairly meaningless.
It's like, wtf America? I get that too many voters don't grasp the finer points of economic policy and history, but I'm having a harder time parsing that majorities of those polled simultaneously blame Republicans for the recession, disapprove of them more in general, and yet think they'd do a better job fixing things and favor them more in the generic ballot.It only takes a handful of incoherent people to create results like that, not majorities. If 90% always blame one party for everything, and vote for the other you could have a situation where 55% blame the republicans, and 55% are going to vote for them.
Although Congress, as part of the New Deal, had appropriated money specifically for relief, FDR decided to use the money for a direct jobs program by issuing a Presidential executive order. This Executive Order described the agencies to be involved in the program, its structure and procedure for application and allocation of jobs.posted by wuwei at 9:49 AM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
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