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When asked about 10 different issues and traits by Pew Research, voters gave President Obama the edge over Mitt Romney in every category except one: the economy. From Pew:
This is an incredible chart. Normally you would think lopsided numbers like this would point to a blowout for Obama, but fortunately for Romney the economy wildly trumps everything else. Romney’s big edge on the single most important issue for voters is helping to keep the election so close. The poll found overall the contest is Obama 50 percent to Romney 46 percent.
Romney strength in this election basically begins and ends with the economy. Likely, that is what his campaign is going to be focused on – like a laser. The campaign probably can’t make people think Romney is more likeable, more in touch, more consistent, or even nicer than Obama; but they can potentially convince voters he is better able to handle the economy after Obama’s disappointing tenure.
Almost the only thing Romney has going for him is his perceived economic competence, but with unemployment over 8 percent that could be enough.
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I cannot understand why anyone would consider Romney to be better for the economy. Based on what? His record at Bain? The fact that he’s rich?
I just started reading “Idiot America: How stupidity became a virtue in the the land of the free”, by Charles Pierce. Starts out describing the Creation Museum (Hebron Kentucky) with a life-sized dinosaur figure, wearing an English saddle – possibly for dressage competition.
Yep, that’s it in a nutshell. Between that and repeatedly kicking his own base for being right about most everything, Obama’s going to have a much harder time than those positive numbers indicate.
Funny, I don’t think either one of them has en edge on the economy. It requires stimulus. Which one will be able to do that? Especially in this era of austerity?
I agree. The republicans destroyed the economy with their trickle-down economics, TWICE. DNC is not reminding people of this. Their plan is “vodoo economics”. Wish I could remember who said that.
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It’s an incredible chart all right. Romney beats Obama on the economy by proposing to return to/double down on the same policies that dumped the country in the shitter and are destroying the middle class. That shows either a) how stupid the US public is or b) how useless Obama has been in promoting policies to defend the middle class – or more likely, both.
Obama’s lackluster success, albeit with not much money to “stimulate”, seems to have given many people the idea that HE is failing even though the actual numbers aren’t that bad.
But Obama has alienated, disappointed and now disenfranchised a lot of his supporters from 2008 with extrajudicial executions, lies about civilian casualties, lack of prosecutions of the banksters, constantly capitulating to the GOP and generally looking like he doesn’t know how to BE president. THis immigration thing should been done two yearsa ago and now looks like a simple politically motivated move. Now his using “executive privilege” where it clearly does not exist is another blow to his “transparency in govenmetn promise.
He’s lost my vote.
Obama is just showing himself,to be ignorant about the economy. It coulée easily cost him the election.
He lost me after “Look Forward not backward” as if Crime ever existed in the future (outside of 1984), and “Single Payer”.
He should have been impeached on the spot after his “Look Forward Not Backward” statement.
I posted as much on the GOS (Great Orange Satan) blog, and my followup post was to label GOS followers as wankers.
This would seem to indicate it’s more of the former even than the latter.
It’s odd to see Obama campaign on his being more fiscally conservative than any president since … well … Hoover.
So, not so strange to see Romney have an advantage.
wow you guys have to read this. This story needs to be up on the lake now. Jon perhaps if you can find some time between posting about the latest polls you might want to get this up. Oh and don’t miss the part about Bill Richardson. In fact that part of the story should get its own post and the headline should be “DId O help his buddy Richardson Avoid being prosecuted” or something like that
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620?print=true
the idea of Republican being better at fixing the economy should make every Democrat in the USA wake up.
FDR must be turning over in his Grave!
What will Obama do that is different from Romney? What?
Obama better start telling people why he is better than Romney.
40 months of 8% plus unemployment in the USA says it all.
How many Dems running for office want to follow Obama economic recovery plan?
Obama plans on cutting the deficit? Yes
Romney plans on cutting the deficit? Yes
cutting the deficit will not help the USA economy.
Obama = Romney on the USA economy
By the way Obama economic plan includes doing a deal that is bigger than NAFTA that will send more Jobs out of the USA!
From Bill MItchells blog
Hell of a legacy. any wonder why Romney leads on the economy?
Aren’t you an industrious little ant.
Verrrry interewsting. Actually, I saw a similar scam perpetrated on a smaller scale in Missisippi by a couple a red-neck bankers who cheated every municipality and school distrinct in MS.
Right you are. What few jobs NAFTA didn’t siphon away, theis Pacific trade Agreement WILL, to the Phillipines, Malaysia, EVery friggin country that borders the Pacific rim.
If Obama wins it will be because people decide to stick with what they already know and not take a huge chance on Willard. So far Obama has done little to convince anyone to even come out and vote for him. The best thing he has going for him is Willard. That said, he might still lose precisely because of the lousy economy.
Ding, ding, ding!
When was the last time we had an FDR dem in the White House or congress? I don’t just mean rhetoric that goes nowhere, but actually pushing the agenda, walking the walk to make it a reality.