So, at what time does our “Failure in Chief” get to assume credit for the economy?
It’s amazing how powerful Bush was - why, he was such a powerful force that even 3 years after he has left office, he is still responsible for unemployment, the deficit, higher taxes, economic stagnation .... why, pretty much everything that Carter whined about too.
It just took a GOOD Republcian a couple years in the White House - to right everything that years of Democratic abuse had wrought. The only real down-side I see, is that I’m not aware of another Republican of the stature of Ronald Reagan in the wings.
They did report the trend, which makes Obama look bad as it should. W was terrible at economics. Obama is worse.
I call Barbara Streisand!
Anyone reading polls should be reminded that the numbers are what they are with 100% negative news coverage for Bush and (almost) 100% positive news coverage for Obama.
Do people remember that Bush had a good economy for about 7 years? Then a financial crisis hit at the end. One def can argue that banking/ housing crisis was caused by the dems because I know Bush tried to get Congress to address the problem much earlier.
Based on a poll of the US Senate most likely.
Given the combination of the Obama Administration, the complicit media and an entertainment culture that appears to be almost exclusively left to radical left, what can one expect? It takes, if successful, national campaigns where unfiltered words are available to be heard. We have the first chance to refute Obama’s broken record of blaming Bush and Republicans by saying you have had 3+ years and you have FAILED. Bye bye Obama!
Bush is certainly PARTIALLY responsible for the fiscally insane policies that have destroyed our economy, but only to the extent that he behaved like a Democrat/Communist.
That is a point that is perhaps too fine for the average Facebook/Dancing with the Stars/iPhone obsessed voter.
Meh... By definition, half of the people you meet are of below average intelligence.
Prince Andrew and Chuckie Schumer are the true malefactors.
So, the people running this “poll” started with a premise, and then went out collecting “poll” “data” which validated that premise. No real surprise here.
Bogus poll.
What would the answer be if the question was posed as such:
‘Who do you blame more for the slow recovery?’
Which, let’s face it, matters more, i.e. the upswing of the economy, rather than a static snapshot of the current state of affairs.
Could it be, that what Obama has been doing, is exactly the WRONG course to follow in trying to correct the course of the economy?
Maybe the economy was a little shaky in 2008. But what has been offered so far, does not even remotely address the problems (rising unemployment, falling tax revenues, runaway spending, collapsed foreign policy, and an incomprehensible energy policy) that dog our daily lives today.
Darned right the Romney campaign bus should be circling the venue where Obama is giving a speech, blowing the horn.
Also, it's just ADULTS. Not registered voters, not likely voters, just ADULTS.
“Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted June 7-10, 2012, with a random sample of 1,004 ADULTS, aged 18 and older, LIVING IN all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.”
For results based on the total sample of NATIONAL ADULTS, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with RESPONDENTS on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in SPANISH for RESPONDENTS who are primarily Spanish-speaking.
The Media is lying to you, they are deceiving you. VERIFY EVERYTHING!!!
“More than two-thirds of Americans—including half of Republicans—still blame former President George W. Bush”...
What a steaming pile of cow sh!t.
Is Bush running in 2012? I missed that. If more than half of all voters blame Obama, who is running, that shouldn't be awfully comforting to the White House. (Or is his reelection effort being run by a bunch of stoners recruited from his HS "Choom Gang"? They might not care.)
EPA killing business
EPA attacking property owners
ObamaCare
Over-Regulation
Tax the Rich
Spread the wealth
5 Trillion Dollars in add’l Debt
Trillion Dollar Deficits
Gay Marriage
WTF? At least Bush wasn’t a freakin’ communist; Obama is a communist with all the Marxist tenants increase taxes, spend and print,