By Derrick Hollenbeck, staff writer
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 governments 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 sample 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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YOU MAY BE A LIBERAL IF…
• You wear Birkenstocks with a tuxedo.
• You have a “Save the Planet” bumper sticker on your Hummer.
• You are a female who doesn’t shave her armpits or a male who does.
• You actually know the difference between Arugula and Riciccio.
• You want to give California back to Mexico.
• You named your first child Diversity.
• Your educational goal is to stay in college until you reach retirement age.
• Your hair still reaches your shoulders but now it starts below your ears.
• You have a picture of Nancy Pelosi hanging on your headboard.
• You bought new leather boots for the animal rights march.
• You go to a planetarium to pick out names for your kids.
• You’ve ever tried to get your insurance company to pay for a witch doctor.
• You know more politically-correct words for “husband” and “wife”
than you know couples who are still married.
• You know the second verse to “Kum By Ya”.
• You’ve ever been to a “clothing-optional” fashion show.
• Your last name has more hyphens than consonants.
Barack Hussein Obama says:
Things could be worse,
put me back in the White House
and i’ll prove it…
RayMO, that wasn’t funny the first time. Honestly, when you tell jokes you must get blank stares from people trying to figure out if you’re just a retard.
The question can actually be misleading.
My family is better off now than in 2008. However, this is despite what Bummer has done to ruin things.
It is actions we took as a family that make us better off than in 2008.
I took a job offer that moved us from suicidal democrat controlled Massachusetts to North Carolina where most democrats would be called republicans in MA. And in 2010, voters turned control of the house and senate to republicans for the first time in over 100 years.
MA still votes in veto proof democrat majorities no matter what crimes democrats commit. Massachusetts also has the distinction of being one of the stingiest states when it comes to personal charitable giving. They spend all their effort trying to take it from their neighbors instead.
So now my family is better off, in a home that is 40% larger, and 110% more land for less than the house we sold in Lowell, MA. We live in a single income which is about 40% less than our dual income in MA. We live a more comfortable life, with better public schools and in a nice neighborhood.
So if asked only the question if I am better off than we were 4 years ago, I would have to lie and say no unless there was a follow up question as to whether is was the policies of the current administration that led to being better off.
After all, due to this administration, my family health insurance plan went up 77% in one year. Nearly 100% total since Bummercare passed.
You don’t sound better, you sound bitter. Quite frankly, I’m way better off, but I realize not all people are. You actually sound pathetic to me.