Two new polls have caught Barack Obama and the Democrats in a crossfire. A USA Today/Gallup survey of both national voter sentiment and the views of registered voters in 12 states identified as “battlegrounds” paints a bleak picture for Obama. When asked the “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” question, made famous by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 campaign against Democrat Jimmy Carter, respondents in the important “swing states” told Gallup they were NOT better off by a wide 56/40 margin.
The national response to this question was only slightly better for Obama as registered voters said they were NOT better off by a 55/42 margin. Gallup’s accompanying report added: “While that question has been posed only episodically, when other recent presidents were seeking re-election, the current finding is the WORST IT’S BEEN when it was asked.”
But Gallup did provided Obama a straw to grab on to. The survey reported that Obama is actually ahead by a 47/44 margin in the “swing states” with Mitt Romney leading in the other 38 states by a 47/45 margin.
In other words, the people who are the MOST unhappy with their condition after four years of Obama want to re-elect him, but those who are less unhappy with what Obama has done to them, after four years, want to vote him out. And we are supposed to believe this.
A second less scientific survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation asked 3,130 American Adults about their feelings toward living under a larger federal government and dealing with government regulation of their everyday lives. By a 55/40 margin, the respondents want smaller government and fewer regulations.
In what must be an ominous sign for Obama, only 25% the respondents were Republicans. Following the usual media over-sampling of Democrats, they made up 34% (as did those self-identifying as Independents.)
Both the “swing state” and the national respondents made it clear they do not want more government regulation as shown by their 60% agreement to the statement, “.. Government controls too much of our daily lives.” Provided Romney and Ryan can force the conversation back to Obama’s failure, these facts will be very helpful in defeating him.
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When you make up what are complete total lies,at some point no one believes you anymore! Even the most ignorant peon will recognize bs when they smell it!A skunk warns coming and going!
It really amazes me when there are those who say they will vote for OhBummer even though they see all the destruction he has caused. It goes to show that if you tell people they will get every thing they need and they don’t have to work for it will be happy to have OhBummer as their so called President, even though that means the REAL providers are those who work for every thing they have. They are a lot like him…………….Freeloaders
LANI: You are point-on with your comment about the freeloaders! The fools that say they are going to vote for Obama just don’t pay attention to anything that is going on around them. It should be obvious but, as you said, they are freeloaders and don’t want their “free” stuff supply chain broken……especially since Osama Obama removed the “must find work” wording from their applications for so-called entitlements Four more years of this Marxist/Communist will totally destroy the USA. He already has a good start!
What REALLY bothers and annoys the hell out of me is people who say: I am a Democrat, my Daddy and Granddaddy were Democrats and I will ALWAYS be a Democrat. I swear, if the Devil ran for President on the Democrat ticket these ignorant people would vote for him. (assuming the Devil is a man).
Swamprat: Living in the People’s Republic of Maryland, I have heard those exact words time and time again, as well. Another one that I hear quite often, too, is, “I’m a registered Democrat but I always vote Republican.” No logic to these people. I’m starting to think they are all inbred!
MDPatriot, I have one explanation for the second statement. I grew up in MD with parents who were registered Democrat but always voted Republican. Why? Here was my mom’s rationale: MD is a Dem-controlled state. We need to be registered with a party to vote in a primary, so if we register Dem, we can choose the best of the candidates from the party most likely to win—but in November, we can always vote for the Republican nominee. I even gave serious thought to employing that strategy when I came to the state where I am now, but at the time, the registration was about evenly divided. Now it’s a solidly blue state, but I am so entrenched in Rep. politics, it would not be possible to do that today.
Yes, Lani – I believe most of the idiots that are still in OhBummer’s side are on welfare, illegals, low, low income, blacks that still think because he is black he has done a good job, mexicans that have been allowed to stay here illegally, his czars, his cronies and a lot of democrats. These are the only ones that are really believing what the moron says in his lies. I can’t believe ANYONE can say they are better off than 4 years ago – just look at gas alone. it has doubled in price since he took office. And if you really look at gas prices – it is totally PRICE GOUGING – nothing else. Yet they tell you if you believe someone is price gouging on gasoline – report them. Well that takes in ALL gas stations. 3 weeks ago I bought a bag of oranges at WalMart for $3.98 and two weeks later the same bag of oranges at WalMart (same store) was $5,98. Where did a major weather problem happen to increase the price of oranges?????? There is nothing that is right for this country with this narcissistic arrogant moron that is in office.
And I don’t believe in polls – because they only take a few hundred people out of the 350 million people in this country. So polls don’t tell anything.
Indeed. I can’t stand to listen to FNC pollz–even they make it sound like Barry is still popular and that he’s ahead. Propaganda, plain and simple.
Phyl, remember that black woman who was on YouTube right in 2008? I forget if the video went around right after Obummer was nominated or after his election, but she was overjoyed because “Now Obama’s gonna pay my rent and buy my gas.” I’d love to find her today and see if she’s better off having freeloaded for nearly 4 years!
Not one registered voter should even consider polling data spewing out of New York, and Washington D.C.
Most of the data is poorly sampled (more democrats than conservatives) and worded in “catch” phrases to fool those surveyed. Those figures showing the “Narcissist-in-Chief” leading by 3 points nationwide against Romney/Ryan are bogus. Remember, the establishment MSM is determined to get this anomalous man re-elected.
I actually like those polls now that I know they are slanted to favor the Dems. Look at it this way. If they sample 65% Dems and 35% Reps, and the result shows the two in a tight race with only 2-3 points separating them, it makes us work harder to persuade the Indies to come our way, and then when we actually do vote, the result may well be a landslide. I think the polls are deliberately skewed as a demoralizing tactic.
Forget polls…they’re all skewed toward the dictator by the MSM…..I don’t believe any of that crap and we will be happy when NOVEMBER 6 comes and we will have a president-elect and vice-president-elect (R/R) who tell the truth to the American people!!!!!
Live by the lie, Lose by the lie.
The 56/44 Poll that answered that question, “Are you better off now” those that were in the 44 group must be on government assistance because not a single person that work’s or used to work could possibly think that they are better off now under a man that has had over 170 fun raisers, over 110 games of golf, over seventy days of luxurious vacations, over someone that is playing president spending more than half of his time in office staring out of the window at 35,000 feet in Air Force One. Only those on government assistance could possibly believe that they are better off now, only those on 99 weeks of unemployment could think that as well. I heard Obama at a University this week talking to the students about lowering the cost of their loans, how do any of them expect to be able to pay their loans back if they can’t find employment once they graduate? The shell game is over and Obama needs to start packing for his trip back to the land of gangsters. Hopefully once Romney is president he will sign an “Executive Order” unsealing all of Obama
s recoprds at Occidential and if that happens the s**t will hit the fan.
We better vote our Homosexual/ Muslim out soon or we wont have a America any more, if elected again he plans to take America down. And who does that pig Michelle think shes fooling talking up for women and our troops while Obama screws then real good! She needs to start working on reducing the king size BUTT and let American worry about their own!