Americans Say They’re Better Off Since Obama Took Office

[Maverick74]

Quote from Max E. Pad:

Yeah, i actually heard them analysing this very stat that free thinker is talking about on Chris Matthews show yesterday and even the guy who was filling in for Chris Matthews thought the bloomberg poll must be a total flop, he pulled up another stat from the government that said something like 50% of homeowners have lost value on their home since Obama took office....and it also showed how much the average persons net worth has went down since Obama took office...... combined with the fact that 15% of people are under employed.....

Now you try telling me based on that how in the hell 45% of people think their life is better than it was 4 years ago..... They probably stood outside of some "Teachers union meeting" and asked 1000 teachers to fill out their poll.....

Basically the guy said that if the Obama team started hyping this obviously faulty poll, they would be following the poll off a cliff....

I saw the same thing on Hardball. I think one of the problems with these poll questions is it's obvious the question is loaded. In other words, the person you are asking knows you are essentially asking whether or not you are going to vote for Obama. So that means one has to take the political lean into consideration as well. Had they asked first if they would vote for Obama and then ask them next if they were better off now then 3 years ago, then you could get a more accurate reading.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Max E. Pad:

Yeah i wasnt saying who was to blame or who isnt.... just from a pure numbers standpoint the vast majority of people are worse offf than they were 4 years ago....

Perhaps, but they don't feel that way, which is important to the election.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Ricter:

Perhaps, but they don't feel that way, which is important to the election.

You can't make the argument for occupy wall street and also the argument for being better off.

 

[Max E.]

Quote from Maverick74:

I saw the same thing on Hardball. I think one of the problems with these poll questions is it's obvious the question is loaded. In other words, the person you are asking knows you are essentially asking whether or not you are going to vote for Obama. So that means one has to take the political lean into consideration as well. Had they asked first if they would vote for Obama and then ask them next if they were better off now then 3 years ago, then you could get a more accurate reading.

I agree, or another way they could do it If they wanted to get a more accurate number on those types of questions, they should probably not even bother with registered republicans or registered democrats, and just take a thousand random independents and see how that ends up.....

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Maverick74:

You can't make the argument for occupy wall street and also the argument for being better off.

Nice point, but I don't think the general public really spends much time thinking about inequality, day to day, though when asked they have an opinion.

The dogs battling under the table are catching more scraps of late, so they feel better.

 

[hughb]

It's true, I'm better off now than when Obama first took the oath. However, it had nothing to do with Obama. How do these people organize their lives in such a way that the government has such a profound affect upon it? Weird.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from hughb:

It's true, I'm better off now than when Obama first took the oath. However, it had nothing to do with Obama. How do these people organize their lives in such a way that the government has such a profound affect upon it? Weird.

Well, one way is to be in a business where government is your main, or even your only, customer.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from Free Thinker:

A plurality of Americans now say they are better off than they were when President Barack Obama was inaugurated,

How much of this credit goes to the Republican House that in Obama's words "has stopped everything he has wanted to do"

 

[OccupyThis]

Quote from Mercor:

How much of this credit goes to the Republican House that in Obama's words "has stopped everything he has wanted to do"

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!