2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

Roy, people were saying that the country was at risk of slipping into a full-scale depression.

To compare an actual depression to the situation we have now, according to an online textbook I looked up, the unemployment rate in the United States averaged around 25% during the Great Depression. And it was worse in other countries, reaching 33% in some.

Now, call everything Obama has done a failure, but he has prevented such a crisis from happening.

And instead of actually not wasting 800 billion dollars and allowing those companies to fail and then we rebound our economy, we have had 3 years of stagnation, with atleast from what the CBO is reporting atleast two more to come.

Might I add, the DJIA has flirted with its highest close in years.

Which means very little, I point you to what Democratic Strategists are saying.

Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg is out with a must-read polling memo this morning, which offers some eye-opening advice to President Obama and his re-election team. After testing several of the president’s economic messages, he finds the argument that the economy is back on the right track polls miserably – and “produces disastrous results.”

“It is weaker than even the weakest Republican message and is 10 points weaker in intensity than either Republican message,” Greenberg wrote. “A third said this message made them less likely to support Barack Obama. Alarmingly, this message barely receives majority support among self-identified Democrats – and even less support among all other groups.”

The memo reads as a glaring wake-up call to the White House, which has been trumpeting improving economic figures lately. Greenberg notes that voters are reporting “no improvement” in their job situation since last June, and have experienced reduced wages and benefits and health insurance coverage. The picture Greenberg’s polling paints is an America public still deeply pessimistic about their future, and skeptical of Obama’s handling of the economy.

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2...dont-think.php

If any Democrat wishes to run on the message of "Happy days are here again" PLEASE be my guest.