This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Class Warfare Blowback: Majority Of Americans Want Obama Out
The ever-eloquent populist-in-chief has just turned an important corner. It seems that the clear class warfare escapades he has been engaging in recently have backfired as, according to a poll by Associated Press-GfK, a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office while 43 percent said he deserves another term. This confirms the report from the previous Gallup poll, that our President heads into election year with a significant problem: "Heading into his re-election campaign, the president faces a conflicted public. It does not support his steering of the economy, the most dominant issue for Americans, or his overhaul of health care, one of his signature accomplishments..." While understandably the party preferences bias for and against, it is the Independents that must be the greater concern as "The president's standing among independents is worse: Thirty-eight percent approve while 59 percent disapprove." Given the fact that its-the-economy-stupid, we wonder just how long the entirely independent and sacrosanct Federal Reserve will remain on the sidelines, or is QE3 coming Jan 1st?
From TIME magazine article: Poll: Obama Re-Election Odds About 50-50
The economy remains a source of pessimism, though the poll suggests the first positive movement in public opinion on the economy in months. One in five said the economy improved in the last month, double the share saying so in October. Still most expect it to stay the same or get worse.
"I suppose you could make some sort of argument that it's getting better, but I'm not sure I even see that," said independent voter John Bailey, a 61-year-old education consultant from East Jordan, Mich. "I think it's bad and it's gotten worse under (Obama's) policies. At best, it's going to stay bad."
Despite the high rate of joblessness, the poll found some optimism on the economy. Although 80 percent described the economy as "poor," respondents describing it "very poor" fell from 43 percent in October to 34 percent in the latest poll, the lowest since May. Twenty percent said the economy got better in the past month while 37 percent said they expected the economy to improve next year.
Yet plenty of warning signs remain for Obama. Only 26 percent said the United States is headed in the right direction while 70 percent said the country was moving in the wrong direction.
The president won a substantial number of female voters in 2008 yet there does not appear to be a significant tilt toward Obama among women now. The poll found 44 percent of women say Obama deserves a second term, down from 51 percent in October, while 43 percent of men say the president should be re-elected.
About two-thirds of white voters without college degrees say Obama should be a one-term president, while 33 percent of those voters say he should get another four years. Among white voters with a college degree, 57 percent said Obama should be voted out of office.
The poll found unpopularity for last year's health care overhaul. About half of the respondents oppose the health care law and support for it dipped to 29 percent from 36 percent in June. Just 15 percent said the federal government should have the power to require all Americans to buy health insurance.
Even among Democrats, the health care law has tepid support. Fifty percent of Democrats supported the health care law, compared with 59 percent of Democrats last June. Only about a quarter of independents back the law.
»
- 24290 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
Its amazing watching all this election shite on tv for 18 months.
Democracy at work... a nation so divided by rich and poor, with no middle ground.
And In the end, a leader whom will be overrun by a military and corporate machine.
Under such circumstances, can any newly elected president really fix all that is wrong?
Not likely!
Its a global phenomenon.
A system built on growth and consumption cannot be sustained. Yet those with the strongest influence ensure...its the only way!!
Only a monumental event will reshape our way of thinking....until then its more of the same.
ron paul says he needs 4 million today.........hmmmm.......
Yes! Shove another fiat on that fire, increase the velocity of money and stoke inflation. That is the only palpable outcome. It should be put into preps instead. Everything is local now with war looming and Obummer at the helm. Duck and Cover, bitches.
Ron Paul & Huntsman look better and better every day.
There used to be a difference in the two parties. Republicans believe in a representative government with laws that are followed and enforced by our constitution. They also used to believe that the free market is the free market and for all it good and bad that the people would correct themselves. Democrats believe in Government because they believe that people are too stupid to make decisions for themselves of they believe the gov't should plan their lives for them all the while living the very same way they tell all of us we shouldn't which is why the USSR collapsed. There are now too many republicans that believe the same thing and those are the ones who should leave our the republcan party and officially become democtats, or progressives, or socialists, or communists, or... well you get the point. The founding father had it right that a gov't will choose to impose tyranny over its people even if they think they are doing the right thing. a gov't that governs least governs best.
Silver & Gold feels realy good in my hands regarless who sits in the White House
Hopefully the blacks will see this man for who and what he is and the damage he has done to them although, I doubt it.
The one truth which I consider immutable is that we can clean up each and every one of the things that ails us---from lobbying to excess debt to cronyism to failed international and domestic policies---and nothing changes. Most all of the maladies are symptoms of the overlying problem, which is too many unnecessary people in a world of limited resources and a Universe that is anything but fair and equitable.
Abandon all Hope, Ye Who Enter Here should be a sign posted in every hospital delivery room on the planet. Such a warning would keep everyone's expectations in check.
We're both too efficient and too rapacious. We need fewer and fewer people to produce what fewer and fewer can afford without going into more and more debt, yet we still overproduce from a pool of declining resources. Excess debt is just a symptom. Debt was the way to keep the illusion alive when another few billion people wanted more than a subsistence living. Debt was a way to gloss over and hide the fact that the Birth Accident Advantage has expired in the developed world, and most people achieved their station in life not from ability or work ethic or character, but because of the borders within which they were born. Globalization has shown that those who live by the sweat of their brow have a fair value far below OECD market rates. Ironically, anything less than globalization is merely a form of socialism, where higher prices for goods and arbitrageable services that result from trade barriers are just a way to transfer wealth from one part of society to another.
We are in survival mode now and the Darwinian creme is rising. Even if we collapse and a new iteration begins, those who "succeeded" this time will succeed next time, and those who beef and moan because they couldn't make it this time won't be any better off in the next iteration. I always use Russia as an example: KGB to Oligarch. Notions of fairness or payback are delusional, save for a tiny few much touted historical examples.
If there is a humane way to deal with all this---without going to war or having a world like in Gore Vidal's "Messiah"---it might be to encourage non-reproduction while taking the best care possible of those souls already in existence. We could then truly call ourselves "civilized". It is probably also time to champion lack of growth and congratulate people for not having babies. After all, nobody's gene pool is essential, so "personal fulfillment" is a kind of genetic or evolutionary driven selfishness and ego gratification.
Go forth and don't multiply.
I came to the view many years ago that we over populated our planet before 1950.
That we have been along for the ride ever since this, because our management/development options disappeared at that point.
But it was just going to take a generation or two for this to become obvious.
We LOVE to pretend we can and are managing toward a sustainable regulation of a non-linear population bloom.
And this is why I have ZERO respect for greenies, politicians or technocrats.
They are all as a consequence full of shit - we are along for the ride.
And this realisation gives me licence to scathingly disregard any false crap they come up with.
And they ALWAYS come up with false irrelevant crap.
It is more important to ask, OK, here I am, in the best and the worst of times, and it's clear this global civilisation is very transient.
I just happened to be born as it was approaching the peak.
So what is actually important to a human being then?
Why is life creating a condition for us to bloom and then immediately wither?
What's it REALLY about?
And if humans aren't seriously asking such questions, and demanding answers from life, they are just not understanding or aware of our precarious and temporary status.
I like what you said about keeping our expectations of life in realistic proportion.
That's the one thing the MSM and political class can never tell us to do.
The suppression of labour income over the last few decades (and particularly since 08) is the real class warfare:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/75966842/Pay-Gap-a-740bn-Threat?secret_passwor...
The credit boom was needed to maintain employment in the face of this (& hollowing out due to globalisation & China's weak yuan policy).
If it continues the US will face chronically weak aggregate demand (much as China has) but without a consumer of last resort to export to.