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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Obama and the Economy: An Exertion Gap?

David Corn
Politics Daily

Next time Gallup or a major news outfit conducts a poll, here's the question I'd like to see asked: Do you believe that President Obama and the congressional Democrats are working their butts off day and night to turn around the weak U.S. economy?

Polls routinely ask respondents if they trust or approve of how the president and members of Congress are "handling" the economy. In a recent survey, no one scored well. Only 45 percent trusted the congressional Democrats to do a good job on the economy; 43 percent said the same of the Republicans; and fewer people -- 41 percent -- approved of Obama's performance on the economy. Worse for the president, 61 percent said the economy has not improved on his watch.

But the American people are not unreasonable (at least, not all of them); three-quarters said it would be unrealistic to expect economic improvements in the first year-and-a-half of Obama's presidency. Still, my hunch is that what many would like to see is Obama and members of Congress focusing nonstop on whatever might be tried to juice up the lackluster economy, which in these final days of summer might be further faltering and heading toward another dip.

Yet does it seem that the Dems are putting in overtime to create -- or save -- jobs?

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