Obama Gets Little Credit for Economy From Most in Poll
By Mike Dorning - Dec 10, 2013
President Barack Obama gets little credit from the public for economic progress under his watch as his job approval has plummeted to a new low of 42 percent in the Bloomberg National Poll.
Americans by 50 percent to 45 percent say improvements in the unemployment rate would have happened regardless of anything the Obama administration has done. Sixty percent say he isn’t responsible for a turnaround in housing and 64 percent don’t give him credit for surging stock prices, according to the telephone poll of 1,004 Americans taken Dec. 6-9.
“It’s more of a natural progression than anything: When the economy goes down, it also will go back up,” said Alexis Zmijeski, 21, of Smithfield, Rhode Island, a college senior and Democrat who voted to re-elect Obama. “Another president could have gotten the same results even if they implemented different policies.”
Public skepticism of an Obama role in the economic rebound is an obstacle to Democratic success in the 2014 midterm congressional elections and could undermine the political legacy of a president who arrived in office confronting the aftermath of the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
“It’s obviously damaging to Democrats as a party that voters can’t connect the dots between the president’s policies and the kind of economic recovery that takes place,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “Of all the issues, that’s the one that parties can really thrive on, when voters think that a party has helped the economy do well.”
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