Posted on 04/22/2010 2:53:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Although President Obama has been in the White House for over a year, more Americans still blame former President Bush for the country's economic problems than they do Obama, according to a Gallup poll conducted March 26-28.
Seventy-five percent blamed Bush a "great deal" or "moderate amount" compared to 50 percent who put responsibility on Obama (these figures include people who blame both). Taking the "great deal" category alone, 42 percent blame Bush a great deal compared to 26 percent who blame Obama.
The percentage of those who blame Obama a great deal is up from 14 percent compared to last July, but Bush's number hasn't changed much from his 43 percent figure last summer. The number of those who blamed Obama a moderate amount rose from 18 percent to 24 percent.
Along party lines, 26 percent of Democrats blame Obama a great deal or moderate amount and 75 percent either not much or not at all. Ninety percent blame Bush a great deal or moderate amount with 10 percent not blaming him much or at all.
Seventy-seven percent of Republicans blame Obama a great deal or moderate amount, with 23 percent not blaming him much or at all. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans put some measure of blame on Bush (although only 15 percent are in the "great deal" category) while 43 percent do not blame him much or at all anymore.
Fifty percent of independents blame Obama a great deal or moderate amount, while 49 percent blame him not much or not at all. Seventy-seven percent still blame Bush, while 24 percent blame him not much or at all.
"Theoretically, Obama accumulates more responsibility for the nation's economy every day he's in office," Gallup said. "That could bear down increasingly hard on his approval rating if unemployment continues to hold at or near 10% and consumer attitudes remain negative. However, the big upside is that should the economy rebound on his watch -- and recent Gallup tracking has some signs of a "nascent" recovery -- Obama is poised to receive much of the credit."
ROFLMAO! Sure.
Just when does Obama pick up the blame game ball?.....
When is there going to be a poll question concerning Democrat controlled since 2006, Congress for putting the U.S. into recession. Guess they don’t want to risk the answer.
15 months and counting, Barry
W had a whole eight years to screw up the economy. Obama, just more than a year.
He is too busy picking up the golf ball instead.
Seventy-seven percent of Republicans blame Obama ... with 23 percent not blaming him much or at all.
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans put some measure of blame on Bush
And there you have it folks ... republicans are stoooopid!
Unless the majority of those claiming to be republicans are really liberaltarians.
Elect a person because he says change and "yes we can"? It is sickness.
Hi DIW. My family doesn't. IMHO the real reason for the financial crisis is not yet defined. Some time ago a FReeper posted a quote by a congressman during a C-Span interview who indicated that over 500 billion dollars was withdrawn from the money markets over a period of 3-5 hours. He indicated that we didn't know who / what was behind the run on the funds. While there was lots of rot in the financial system, this event is what triggered the crisis. We need to find out who was behind the run.
Bush tried to regulate Fannie and Freddie. Although the Republicans had narrow majorities in Congress, they were not enough to prevent the Democrats from blocking the reforms.
I've never seen a source besides that congressman. For some reason, that makes me suspicious.
W had a whole eight years to screw up the economy. Obama, just more than a year.
better watch it becuase the lame stream media will run that as obummer is 8 times the president that W was.....
Why not blame the Democratic congress who have had control of both the house and senate for the last four years. They now control the legislative branch an the executive branch, yet they still want to blame Bush. The American public is getting wise to this mess.
Bush tripled the debt on his watch that is a fact. He never said no to any spending in like the first 6 years. Of course Obama tripled the debt heading to 4 times in 15 months and shows no signs of stopping. It is not compassionate to spend more than you take in no matter who is overseeing the spending.
I agree. Bush was not fiscally responsible. He failed to fund the wars with offsetting budget cuts or tax increases. He exploded federal education spending. He pushed for and got Medicare prescription drug program. He could’t find his veto pen. He went underground during the financial crisis letting Paulson and the Democrats craft TARP and the bailout of GM and Chrysler. Don’t forget, the Republican House was brave enough to vote down the bailouts as fiscally irresponsible the first time TARP came up for vote. Then Johnny McCain, suspended his campaign like a fool and came running back to Washington to save the day. Paulson, Pelosi, Reid and Obama then played both Bush and McCain for fools and left the Republican House members hanging in the breeze.
George W. Bush set the stage for Obama by being fiscally irresponsible. Obama just took it to a whole new level.
A Constitutional Republic cannot exist without an informed, moral electorate. This should be crystal clear to everyone, just seeing the nation for the past 30 years.
That is why I reserve my greatest scorn for my fellow voters. We really need to change the law to one taxpayer, one vote rather than one man, one vote (freeloaders included).
You are right in principal but I don’t think you are right that Bush trippled the national debt. I believe he raised it by 70%, which is horrific, but there is no need to exaggerate, unless you honestly believe he trippled the debt.
I believe it was under $7 trillion when he took office and around $11 trillion when he left office.
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