"Obama will propose $300b jobs package; GOP criticizes plans before announcement" September 07, 2011|By David Espo and Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
A Washington Post-ABC survey released Monday found that 60 percent of those polled expressed disapproval of Obama’s handling of the economy. Thirty-four percent said his proposals were making the situation worse and 47 percent said they were having no effect - dismal soundings for a president headed into a reelection campaign.
Only 19 percent said the country was moving in the right direction.
That's the one-fifth that has benefited.
Not that Republicans, or Congress as a whole, are in good odor with the voters.
The Post-ABC News poll found 28 percent approval for the job the Republicans are doing, and 68 percent disapproval.
An AP-GfK survey last month put overall support for Congress at 12 percent - the lowest level ever in the survey’s history.
Then support for Democrats must be near zero.
The Tea Party movement has also been hurt, according to the same poll, which found that 32 percent of those surveyed have a deeply unfavorable impression of the movement that helped give Republicans control of the House in the 2010 elections....
Meaning two-thirds do not, right?
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"With speech on jobs, Obama is betting big; Critics say he may be raising hopes too high" September 08, 2011|By Scott Wilson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Obama’s speech will serve as an opening statement of his reelection bid, the success of which may depend on his ability to persuade a divided Congress to act on his proposals or saddle it with the blame if it refuses to go along....
I suppose that is why I didn't watch a word.
Obama will be trying to change the perception that he is a weak and rudderless leader. The sharply partisan debate over how to raise the debt ceiling deepened that impression among some people. When it ended, many Democrats believed Obama had acquiesced to Republican budget-cutting demands.
Obama and his advisers, though, are betting that voters, especially young ones, will support a reelection strategy that presents him as a post-partisan president, more interested in problem-solving than ideology....
Betting on the young has always been a loser in American politics. The kids just don't show up, especially when you have disappointed them so.
Update: Republicans seize on waning campus Obamamania
Are we seeing the groundwork for a grand rigging for reelection?
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