My hero, Zero

By Libby

I read about this poll and the first thing I thought of was the old Schoolhouse Rock video from whence I stole the title of this post. As regular readers know I don't generally put much stock in these things but I do follow them to some extent and I don't believe I've ever in my lifetime seen one that showed a metric of zero. Yet, here we have a poll with that result.

A new American Research Group poll shows that “[n]o Americans say that the national economy is getting better,” while 82 percent say it is getting much worse. Only 17 percent approve of President Bush’s handling of the economy, with 78 percent disapproving. Even among Republicans, more disapprove of his economic performance than approve:

Among Republicans, 46% approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 48% disapprove. Among Democrats, 97% disapprove of the way Bush is handling the economy and 2% approve. Among independents, 8% approve and 87% disapprove of the way Bush is handling the economy. Bush’s overall approval rating fell to 19 percent, from 30 percent last month, with 76 percent disapproving.

Quite astounding really. I doubt we'll ever see such a thing again.

Meanwhile, speaking of polls, despite the GOP and their remaining loyalist's best efforts to paint the Democrats as the cause of the current economic meltdown, the majority of Americans aren't buying that line. "A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll suggests that by a 2-to-1 margin, Americans blame Republicans over Democrats for the financial crisis that has swept across the country the past few weeks..."

Considering how completely ineffectual the Democratic party has been in the last 8 years, the only surprise there is that the poll didn't also show a zero return. I guess the ones willing to blame the Dems are the same ones that think Sarah Palin was a great choice as a Veep.

Comments

[EL]

Unfortunately, a CNN poll shows Obama with only a slight lead (47-44) for who is better to lead the country out this economic mess. I don't get it, but then again the polling data between McCain and Obama has been a mystery to me. How can anyone take Palin seriously? How can McCain, who blindly supported deregulation of investment banks, now be the great scourge of Wall Street? How has it come to this? I fear Orwell was right. By the way, an Australian economist tonight on CNBC said he believed that the US will have a 3-4 year recession because of all the consequences of the bailout and oil will soar because the dollar will tank due to a $700,000,000 flood of US dollars through Tbill sales needed to finance "cash for trash." He thought $1.64-5 would be the price for a Euro in 3 months or so. Oh Happy Days! $150 oil and a long recession.

[Libby]

I don't trust the polls EL. All this 'weighting' they do skews the results, IMO. I think it's all a setup to steal the election again and it started back in 04 when they said the exit polls were wrong. The exit hadn't been wrong in decades and suddenly they don't work anymore? Suspicious if you ask me.