Posted on 09/20/2012 11:39:25 AM PDT by Roberts
With just 47 days before the general election and Mitt Romney attempting to pivot the focus of the election back on the state of the economy, citizens with Democratic leanings are actually doing an about-face on the economy compared to their Republican counterparts, according to a recent study from the Pew Research Center.
New data found that just 15 percent of Democrats believe that recent economic news is mostly poor, a percentage that took a significant drop from the 31 percent of Democrats polled last month who did think that economic news was mostly bad. According to the study, the 15-percent clip is among the lowest percentages during President Barack Obama’s nearly four years in office.
But with those citizens with Republican leanings and no political leanings at all, the outlook remains the same. Sixty percent of Republicans find that most of the economic news is bad. Among independents, the percentage is 36 percent. Both of these data sets remain virtually unchanged from a month ago, according to the study.
The study, released on Sept. 11, could show Obama making gains on the economy, which has been what Romney ultimately has wanted to make the election about to this point, crystallized even further in his acceptance of the nomination at the Republican National Convention. Despite Romney’s efforts to turn the attention back to the economy following the backlash from the “47 percent” video, the data found that some Americans were actually beginning to feel better about the outlook of the economy. The percentage of people who feel that most of what they hear about the economy is bad dropped six percentage points in a month, from 41 percent to 35 percent, according to the study.
The survey of 1,012 adults was conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press from Sept. 7 through Sept. 9.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder. Leftists can will themselves a recovery and their own reality.
Oh, I believe it.
It’s called “stuck on stupid”.
They’re doing well as long as the government checks keep coming.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen as significant a group as this, that believes so much in psychobabble, and uses it so little when it is as clear as it is, that they have some sort of mental disorder.
That explains quite a lot
When you receive a government check, then you really don’t pay much attention to the economy.
90% are on the dole, or govt “workers.” The rest.... I dunno. Maybe libertines justifying their licenciousness.
The other 85% are on welfare....
Want to believe it? Ask your most liberal friend to document for you just one lasting free and prosperous redistributionist nation. Then, wait for some logical reaction to the question, along with documentation of the answer.
Totally believable - totally.
Liberals are driven by their emotions, so much so that it actually colors their reality. They live in a different world. They LOVE Obama and therefore like a battered spouse anything he does his golden. Morevover, Liberals continually tell themselves that they’re smarter and better than everyone else and that their “compassion” (with other peopl’s money) really makes them superior in their minds. Couple this with the corrupt MSM forever covering their back and reinforcing their emotionally driven value system, and now you begin to understand how this is totally possible.
That must be the 15% of Dems who actually work for a living.
Not the 85% who are on welfare, disability, food stamps, EBT cards, and fat union pensions.
Kind of like living in Lybia, Egypt or Israel.
This isn’t surprising. I had a Rat friend telling me after the Rat convention that the economy was getting better. Of course, I told her that is BS and she shouldn’t believe everything Obama and his lap dogs in the media tell her.
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