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April 14, 2009 07:16 PM UTC

While the fringe throws "tea parties"

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  • by: JeffcoBlue

(We just looked it up in the Urban Dictionary — eww. – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The vast majority of Americans express confidence in President Obama’s economic plan.

Poll shows 71% trust Obama to fix the economy – LA Times

As President Obama continues to express confidence in the U.S. economy, many Americans say they have confidence in his ability to steer the nation’s fortunes in the right direction.

A new Gallup poll found that 71% of those interviewed said they placed “a great deal or a fair amount” of confidence in the president to bring about an economic recovery.

That puts Obama ahead of some of the country’s leading economic experts: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke had a 49% rating in the poll and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner drew 47%.

Fifty-one percent of respondents said they were confident in Democratic congressional leadership on the economy.

Thirty-eight percent felt that way about Republican leaders.

Have fun “teabagging” with Jon Caldara, whackos.

Has anybody told you what “teabagging” means, by the way? It’s funny how it’s still appropriate either way.

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23 thoughts on “While the fringe throws “tea parties””

    1. Polarization in American politics has its own disturbing momentum, aided by some strident Republican voices. But that does not require a president to make it worse. And it is a sad, unnecessary shame that Barack Obama, the candidate of unity, has so quickly become another source of division.

      1. If you saw JeffCoBlue’s diary, you’d know that 71% trust Obama to fix the economy. That’s hardly polarized.

        http://www.latimes.com/news/na…

        The Republicans are the only ones who feel his Administration is divisive. Everyone else is getting behind him. As much as you’d like to believe otherwise.

        1. Poll I saw a few days ago showed that Obama is the most polarizing president in recent history.  In other words, the discrepancy between approval from his own party versus voters’ of the opposition party was greater than ever at this point in a presidential term.

          1. The problem is that the Republicans have all gone off the deep end that they no longer control the government.

            Your complaint is like claiming FDR & Churchill caused WWII because they were in charge when Germany & Japan attacked.

          2. With moderate Republicans leaving the party and the remainder being driven more and more by the right-wing calliope chorus, is it any wonder that – on a per-party basis – we’re more polarized now?

            When former GOP party officers in places like Douglas or Arapahoe Counties are wondering what the **** the loonies currently running the Republican bin are thinking, you know the party is out of touch.

            A more accurate statement is that the Republican Party – what’s left of it – is more polarized against the rest of the nation than any other party in recent history.

      2. Date — 04/14/2009 NET +3 – +10

        Presidential Approval Index

        Strongly Approve – 35%

        Strongly Disapprove – 32%

        Total Approve – 55%

        Total Disapprove – 44%

            1. Rass is the outlier, yet again.

              Check out RCP:

              Every other approval poll has him at a +24 or better. His RCP average is 60.8 percent approve, with a +30 spread.

              Even the one you cited has him at over 50% and +11, which George W. Bush would have killed for in the last two years of his second term.

              Hardly divisive. What else you got?

  2. WASHINGTON – President Obama … warned Americans that more pain lies ahead and urged them to help build a foundation for a new, 21st century prosperity.

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    Speaking just after a disappointing report on March retail sales made it clear that a sustained recovery is not yet at hand, the president delivered a speech that was part pep talk and part rebuke, not only for the once high-rolling members of the financial world but for politicians who he said had deferred tough decisions for too long.

    …

    The White House had previewed the event as a “major speech” on the economy, but Mr. Obama did not break new ground.

    …

    The president seemed to guard against being tagged as a “liberal.” For instance, he defended his administration’s decision not to take over failing banks: “Governments should practice the same principle as doctors: first, do no harm.” And at another point, he invoked religious imagery.

    …

    But the near future will bring “more job loss, more foreclosures and more pain before it ends,” Mr. Obama said. Underscoring his point was a Commerce Department report showing that consumer spending on a wide array of goods declined in March, reflecting a general spirit of uncertainty as well as continuing job losses.

    …

    As the president spoke, the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told an audience at Morehouse College in Atlanta that there were “tentative signs” that the decline in the economy was slowing.

    …

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04…

        1. He was the honest one who said the stimulus would save or create jobs.  I know it is hard to believe a President can be honest after the last 8 years.

  3. sitting in for Keith Olberman on Countdown:

    It’s going to be teabagging day for the right wing, and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing, and lick government spending.

    2. They totally found their niche: telling Republicans what they want to hear, regardless of what public opinion actually is.

      From RSB’s RCP link above:

      Gallup 04/10 – 04/12 1547 A 62 29 +33

      Rasmussen Reports 04/10 – 04/12 1500 LV 55 44 +11

      Pew Research 03/31 – 04/06 1506 A 61 26 +35

      CNN 04/03 – 04/05 1023 A 66 30 +36

      CBS News/NY Times 04/01 – 04/05 998 A 66 24 +42

      Marist 04/01 – 04/03 928 RV 56 30 +26

      Newsweek 04/01 – 04/02 1003 A 61 27 +34

      FOX News 03/31 – 04/01 900 RV 58 32 +26

      If I were consistently getting results twenty points away from every other pollster, I’d worry about my methods.

      Rasmussen has a good reputation. So did Zogby, years ago.

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