CNN Quick Poll: "Are You Better Off Than 4 Years Ago?" 54% say YES

[stopbush]

Poll is still open to vote:

http://www.cnn.com/

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Oddly enough, that will be Obama's share of the popular vote

[hughee99]

2. I was actually thinking, Oddly enough

many of the people who are better off will be Romney voters.

[applegrove]

26. I agree with you. Obama should put out an ad that says: "Are you

better off than you were 4 years ago? If you are in the 1% the answer is yes. If you are in the 99% it is your turn to have some attention to your needs".

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. voted

[liberal N proud]

4. Oops!

[jody]

5. How does a president function when 46% don't believe she/he is doing a good job? nt

[angstlessk]

6. What just because the house is non functional he should just stop trying?

[jody]

8. I'm interested in your answer to the question. nt

[angstlessk]

24. Yes I am better off..sold my home before the crash..and bought a home for cash in a distressed area

no more mortgage and no credit card debt..debt free

[jody]

27. What is your answer to #5? nt

[Thinkingabout]

37. Maybe it is by executive order but better than Bush with repub Congress.

The 46% is probably the bushwackers and would never admit the job situation has changed under Obama.

[angstlessk]

38. Let's see 46% vs 54%? 46% don't like President Obama's policies..but 54% do?

Please go to hell

[jody]

40. Your reply challenged your intellectual ability. nt

[enlightenment]

7. How do you make that connection?

The poll indicates that 46% of people don't feel they are better off - that has less to do with their perception of the President's policies and more about their individual situations, which may or may not have improved.

I don't disapprove of the President, but I would be part of the 46%.



*edited because I saw a misspelling, after the fact.

[jody]

9. I'm interested in your answer to the question. nt

[enlightenment]

10. Your question makes no sense in relation to the question posed by the poll.

Is that enough of an answer?

[jody]

11. "Is that enough of an answer?" Sure because that's the best you can do! nt

[Tx4obama]

12. Your question is vague. What exactly are you trying to say?

If 46% of folks don't believe he is doing a good job that has NO affect on the President's day to day job of making decisions.

What does have an affect and makes it difficult for a president to reach the goals of what he wants to do is THE CONGRESS.

When there is a House and Senate not functioning as it should due to not having enough Democrats to pass the bills that need to be passed (and/or not a 60 vote super-majority to vote to invoke cloture in the Senate) THAT is what what gets in the way!

[jody]

13. I said nothing, I asked a question. nt

[Tx4obama]

14. If you can't take the time to explain your question, then I'm not wasting anymore time on ya.

Ciao

[jody]

15. Simple questions don't need explanation and I agree you are not qualified to waste time on them. nt

[Skittles]

32. that response was excellent

go head and take your ball and go home

[Chorophyll]

22. I thought your answer was pretty good.

FWIW.

[msongs]

17. easier if one has beliefs and values one will not sell out to be "bipartisan" nt

[Chorophyll]

18. Oops, I just self-deleted my post because I thought this thread was becoming

needlessly contentious.

I think I was right.

[Fawke Em]

19. I don't know... ask FDR.

He had a 46ish disapproval rating during much of 1937-38, yet he still managed...

12/25-30/38 Gallup 58 42
12/4-9/38 Gallup 53 38
11/24-29/38 Gallup 55 39
11/16-21/38 Gallup 56 45
11/7-12/38 Gallup 54 46
10/19-24/38 Gallup 52 41
10/10-15/38 Gallup 50 43
10/3-8/38 Gallup 54 38
9/25-30/38 Gallup 52 37
8/18-23/38 Gallup 50 44
8/12-17/38 Gallup 53 41
7/4-11/38 Gallup 52 40
5/29-6/4/38 Gallup 54 46
5/22-27/38 Gallup 54 46
10/30-11/4/37 Gallup 63 37
8/4-9/37 Gallup 60 40


http://webapps.ropercenter.uconn.edu/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Roosevelt#.UEU8HCI8CSo

[jody]

23. Things change and FDR was Commander in Chief during a war that most people accepted as a threat

against the nation.

I remember vividly 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the public coming together to fight the enemy.

We have nothing like that today to unite the public against the war against our economy.

[Cali_Democrat]

28. It's an internet poll

as in...not scientific AT ALL.

[jody]

31. OK but that doesn't answer #5. Thanks anyway. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

35. Your question is silly because the numbers are based on an internet poll

A fucking internet poll

[Cannikin]

36. The same way all the other ones do, I suppose.

I don't remember a president's performance being influenced by low favorability. How does congress take itself seriously with an 8% approval rating?

[AtomicKitten]

20. 54-46; just about the margin he won by in 2008.

[ecstatic]

21. BS. YES due to Obama, and NO due to BUSH

Better off mentally? YES! Better off financially? Hmm... yes and no, but the YES is due to Obama, and the NO is due to BUSH!

The housing bubble collapse started in 2008 and my home's value has only declined since then. I'm EXTREMELY underwater, like many other people. BUT, I was able to refi my loan without doing an appraisal and without an increased mortgage insurance premium. OBAMA'S FHA program did that, effective 6/11/12. Prior to then, refinancing didn't make sense for me due to a prior hike in mortgage insurance premiums, and I heard horrible things about the process of modifying loans.

I'm now paying about $300 less per month than I did when I first got this home. $3600 in savings per year, and luckily, there's still the mortgage interest deduction (which would go away to pay for tax cuts for billionaires if Rmoney won). I'm still 70k or so underwater, but I know Obama didn't have anything to do with the bubble bursting and I'd be a complete f$cking idiot to think Willard "let the market sort that out" Rmoney is the solution to my problems.

If someone called and asked me to answer that question with just one word, I'd hang up.

[Proles]

25. I saw that earlier today actually, and voted YES.

Not just because I support Obama, but because it's actually true for myself and my family.

Undoubtedly there are those among us, and across this country who aren't any better off (perhaps even worse), but it is not due to Obama. It is due to an obstructionist republican congress.

So even if I were worse off, I'd still vote YES; because being under an Obama presidency is better for my psyche than being under a republican one.

[Marrah_G]

29. I'm not

But i am not voting in the poll either

[patrice]

30. I'm not, because I LIVE IN KANSAS.

[standingtall]

33. Considering I

Have a pre-existing condition that I can no longer be denied health coverage for. I am much better off then I was 4 years ago.

[MrSlayer]

34. The country is doing marginally better I guess. I'm getting killed personally.

The wall street crowd is doing great. I'm out of work for over a year and have only worked in 18 of the 43 months of this administration. That private money has to free up and the infrastructure money has to flow or I'm looking at another four years of hell.

Our "side" really blew it when they had the Congress. Scared to death to use their power for the good of the people. It sucks.

[rollin74]

39. I am NOT better off than 4 years ago

much worse actually

Romney isn't going to help and I will be voting to re-elect President Obama