CNN poll: GOP takes brunt of blame for economy; Obama gains

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

By a two-to-one ratio, Americans blame Republicans over Democrats for the financial crisis that has swept across the country the past few weeks, a new national poll suggests.

That may be a contributing factor to an apparent increase for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain in the race for the White House.

In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey out Monday afternoon, 47 percent of registered voters questioned say Republicans are more responsible for the problems currently facing financial institutions and the stock market, with 24 percent saying Democrats are more responsible.

One in five of those polled blame both parties equally, and 8 percent say neither party is to blame.

The poll also indicates that more Americans think Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, would do a better job handling an economic crisis than McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/22/cnn.poll/index.h...

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Oh and Palin's negatives are up 8 points to 35% and 2/3rds think she and the First Dude should testify in Troopergate.

[alfredo]

1. It would be nice to see a huge landslide for Obama.

[pattmarty]

13. "Huge" would also have the additional benefit of.................

............a lot bigger majority in both houses of Congress.

[alfredo]

14. Outside the margin of error would make fraud difficult.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. That 33% think the Democrats are at fault is flabbergasting.

Even if the R's had achieved the one-party thousand-year Reich they were planning, they'd STILL be blaming the now non-existent Democrats for everything, Emmanuel Goldstein style.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Yeah, but look at that 33%

It's the same 33% that approve of *. I realize his numbers lately have been even lower than that, but still...

[rpannier]

4. I would argue that people like Evan Bayh and the rest of the pro-corporate Dems

bear a measure of responsibility for this fiasco.

Their abandoning of Democratic principles in the name of feeding at the corporate trough puts them squarely in with people responsible.

[wcepler]

5. Never forget the dem suck up 2004 "Democratic" Congress

I totally agree with that. We should never forget the lessons of the 2004 "Democratic" Congress, in which literally practically ALL of the dems put it together that they could made 10 times more money if they stuck their heads up where the sun doesn't shine in the fascist pugs and elites. It was the biggest congressional betrayal in American history.

[sendero]

6. The 30% idiot-contingent will...

... always be with us.

[cosmicone]

8. That is 24%, not 33%

The same 24% who think Dubya is doing a heckuva job hahaha

[unblock]

11. it's a bit like anti-semitism in some countries

poland, for instance, which USED to have quite a lot of jews, now is 0.06% jewish. that's about 25,000 jews in the entire nation of more than 38 million.

and yet i have heard that jews are openly blamed for practically everything.

[Fire1]

7. It's about time they woke up!

But what they do in the voting booth remains to be seen.

[NeoConsSuck]

9. with 24 percent saying Democrats are more responsible

I cannot believe even the worst freeptard knuckle-dragging morans could not bring themselves to admit the neocon capitalists are raping our once great country.

How far up your ass does your head have to be to blame the Democrats??

[RufusTFirefly]

10. Darn libruhl meedya!!

Of course they think the Republicans are to blame!

America, this is not a time for pointing fingers!!

[crossroads]

12. They should have all the blame! Corporate scum! nt

[yellowcanine]

15. "Fool me twice and I will never be fooled again." Seems appropriate here.

[FVZA_Colonel]

16. Well, the Repugs are hitting back:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=...

Oh, this is by the same guy who, in 1999, co-wrote a book predicting that the Dow would be at 36,000 within five years.

[Tempest]

17. He conveniently leaves out some facts

Fannie and Freddie were careful to include powerful Democrats and Republicans as executives, board members and lobbyists to make sure they had access to top government officials and clout on Capitol Hill, no matter which party was in power.

The strategy that started two decades ago continues. They have hired many officials who have worked for the last two administrations alone. Fannie hired Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration; Thomas E. Donilon, who was that administration’s chief of staff to the secretary of state; and Franklin D. Raines, who was President Clinton’s budget chief.

Among Republicans, Fannie hired Robert B. Zoellick, now the head of the World Bank and a former official in both Bush administrations; Stephen Friedman, the onetime top economic adviser to the current President Bush; and Michele Davis, now an assistant secretary of the Treasury under Henry M. Paulson Jr.

Fannie’s board once included Frederic V. Malek, a longtime friend of the Bush family and a former business partner of the current President Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13lend.html?...

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McSame's own campaign staffer collected $30,000 a month for 5 years from one of Freddie and Fannie's PACS.