TPM: Poll: 49 Percent Believe GOP Stalling Economic Recovery In Order To Beat Obama

[flpoljunkie]

8:16 AM EDT, TUESDAY JUNE 12, 2012

Poll: 49 Percent Believe GOP Stalling Economic Recovery In Order To Beat Obama

Nearly half of voters believe that Republicans are deliberately hamstringing efforts to resuscitate the economy in order to bolster their chances of defeating President Barack Obama, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP), conducted in conjunction with Daily Kos and SEIU, shows that 49 percent of registered voters nationwide think Republicans are “intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy” to ensure Obama’s defeat in November. Half of all independents surveyed feel the same way.

The results are sure to embolden Democrats, who have long maintained that Republicans are actively rooting for economic failure to undermine Obama politically.

Reported by Tom Kludt

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/poll-49-percent-believe-gop-stalling-economic-recovery

[democrat_patriot]

1. They need the video with:

Rush: "I hope he fails"

McConnell: "One term" quote

Actual Republican legislation: "While the unemployed suffer - Republicans WASTED 2 days reading the constitution"

List of bills proposed by the R's: No fetus in food, Roger Clemens, No Sharia law, etc....

"Republicans Don't Care. Paid for by DU"

[Nancy Waterman]

8. They need the video from Bill Maher's show last Friday

where that conservative said a GOP Senator told him McConnell has told his caucus to pass NOTHING,
no matter what the country actually needs.

[liberalmike27]

15. Well

That leaves 51% that aren't paying attention.

[WI_DEM]

2. and yet how many will still vote for them. Poll after poll has shown this but hasn't

stopped the GOP from being close in the polls.

[liberalnationalist]

4. the polls are exactly what they are

polls

this election is going to be a me mortal t total blow out in our favor if we just vote!

[babylonsister]

3. I can only hope people are actually paying attention. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. Only 49%? Apparently we still got work to do!! :(

[liberalnationalist]

6. actually 49% is a damn good #

I bet a majority in concert with the 49% actually believe the republican party has other reasons/plan/ ect which includes just the 49%
so 49% on the word "sabatage" or "on purpose" related to republican tacits via the economy to get rid of Obama is an extremely good number

[Nancy Waterman]

9. 49% is good but we should aim for at least 60%

It is the truth after all.

[liberalnationalist]

11. absolutely

it should be 99.9% and the remainder is RAW MONEY and his billionaire supporters, who most likely have commited crimes thier whole lives they should be in prison for

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. I agree! I still think as long as people don't know this truth, Obama and the Dems

will be hurt!!

[aintitfunny]

7. Only 51% to go! (EOM)

[shcrane71]

10. 32-41% of believe GOP stalling recovery when taken to a vote.

Tongue's still in cheek.

[Blue Owl]

12. Once again The Onion was on this weeks ago

http://www.theonion.com/video/republicans-stalling-obamas-agenda-by-speaking-mov,28234/

[siligut]

13. And it will be the rethugs downfall

If the people know that they are purposely being kept fearful, out-of-work and financially weak for political gain, they will have to wake-up.

Rethugs won't be able to keep the wannabes hostage as they wait for their ship to come in any longer, they will finally be forced to acknowledge that they are being used and duped.

Of course, die-hards will just continue to lie to themselves, but the values people will be disgusted.

[coalition_unwilling]

16. I've been shouting since January that Obama needs to channel

Harry S. Truman (ca. 1948) and campaign against the 'Do-Nothing Congress'. He need not accuse them of deliberately sabotaging the economy. All he needs to do is tell the truth, that the Repigs have introduced no jobs bill since 2010. He should hammer them into the political wilderness for a generation for this.

[Left Coast2020]

22. Maybe we should send the WH a petition...

...to use this very stratagy..just in case they are not paying attention to Bill Mahers guests.

[D23MIURG23]

17. This just in: 51% of Americans awaiting radical procedure to remove cranium from large intestine

[ilikeitthatway]

18. In other news

water is wet.

[crunch60]

19. Thom Hartmann: Republicans have Plotted Treason Now

Posting this video again, because it sure sounds like the Republican's have deliberately gone out of their way to sabotage Obama from the get go.

What do you call it when a small group of Republicans gather to intentionally sabotage an entire nation, just so their party can win political power off the pain of working Americans? Is it "treason"? Sedition? Or simply the most corrupt, evil, and petty sort of politics this town has seen since Newt Gingrich shut down the government and threw millions of Americans out of work because Bill Clinton had made him fly in the back of Air Force One?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734104

[Credo4Congress]

20. Nothing but the true

Politicians need to stop playing with real people's lives

[newthinking]

21. Only 49%. Amazing

[McCamy Taylor]

23. That's because they said they were gonna do it.