Gallup
Poll: Improving national outlook on economy drove Obama’s victory
All of these factors played a part in Obama’s winning a second term as president, even though Americans are still in a somewhat negative mood in an absolute sense.
The 33% of Americans satisfied is below the historical average 38% and is the lowest it has been when an incumbent successfully won re-election. It was lower in late 1979 and 1992 prior to the defeats of Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, respectively, but was significantly higher when Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush won re-election.
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From Hot Dogs to Hot Dogs with fixin’s?
Whoo Hoo!!!
portlandon on November 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM
*blink*
WisRich on November 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Que the maniacal laughter from the Obama campaign.
mwbri on November 8, 2012 at 3:58 PM
There is only one thing that drove Obama’s victory. Millions of welfare recipients voting for more of the same.
We need a law. You don’t vote while you’re on welfare.
Axion on November 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Heh. Time’s are good. I might be able to afford some mustard.
WisRich on November 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Should read …
Poll: Incredibly horrible GOP candidate and improving national outlook on economy drove Obama’s victory (but mostly incredibly horrible GOP candidate).
HondaV65 on November 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
WHAT?
Dang I thought it was the gals and getting stuff for their gal ‘parts’ that did it?
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letget on November 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Well, we won’t have to worry about that lie for very long.
deadrody on November 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Huh? What? Someone please wake me up when this nightmare is over…
threeinone on November 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM
You can cull the data to find some justification, but the truth remains simple: the majority in this country today will vote for whichever candidate that promises them more free stuff.
Ted Torgerson on November 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Do you know what the street value is of an old McDonalds Ketchup Package is?
portlandon on November 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Yeah, take that poll again in about 6 months. I agree that the economy looked like it was improving in some areas just enough to get Obama off the hook(coupled with neverending Bush-bashing). The unemployment rate manipulated to fall below 8%. The streak of consecutive months with positive job growth, anemic as it may have been.
And that “800,000 jobs lost a month when I came into office” talking point. I hate to say it, but that gave Obama a metric by which to compare his own economic performance that probably bailed his ass out with a lot of voters. It’s not so much that people thought the economy was good. It’s that they thought it wasn’t as bad as when he took office, and that Bush had left him a mess he needed more time to clean up.
Doughboy on November 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Yeah kids, good luck with that!
squint on November 8, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Poll:
Improving national outlookBLS fudging numbers on economy drove Obama’s victoryCycloneCDB on November 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Lovin’ me some 7.9% unemployment…mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
Erich66 on November 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM
market down over 400 since obama’s reelection.
Yay!
tom daschle concerned on November 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Come on, man. Seriously. Do you actually think this nonsense is even remotely useful ?!
First of all, Romney, while not being my first choice, was HARDLY a “incredibly horrible GOP candidate”. That is flatly untrue.
Second, even if Romney WERE that, Barrack Obama was a far more incredibly horrible candidate.
Which is to say NOTHING of the fact that compared to Romney, all the other “contenders” were MORE horrible. So please, please stop pretending that there was some magical candidate out there that would have magically been able to beat Obama. That is simply fiction of the most fantastical sort. If thinking up fantasy, alternative history fables about what could have been, great, go do that. But stop wasting people’s time here with your foolishness.
deadrody on November 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Meanwhile the Dow has dropped 434 points since Obama was reelected.
midgeorgian on November 8, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Well, I think the people that voted for Obama are going to be…unpleasantly surprised.
ramesees on November 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM
You can afford hot dogs?
single stack on November 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM
We need to go back to TROLLCOT!!!!
lovingmyUSA on November 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM
People are truly stupid. And I work with several of them. I refuse to talk to them because I will same something ugly.
tyketto on November 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM
LOL – Oh please. Not a single person who voted for obama did so because they thought that the U.S. economy is improving or will improve over the next four years – obama voters don’t want to work and don’t care, or know anything, about the economy – they just want FREE sh*t and welfare dollars so they can buy drugs.
Pork-Chop on November 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM
I dont think “improving” means what they think it means…
lovingmyUSA on November 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM
That improving US economy was invented by the media. It’s not happening.
hawkdriver on November 8, 2012 at 4:09 PM
does that include the 50% of the military that voted for him?
Face it man – Willard was a bad choice. Just like McCain and Dole were.
HondaV65 on November 8, 2012 at 4:10 PM
This is the same Gallup that showed Romney ahead, right?
Punchenko on November 8, 2012 at 4:10 PM
It was actually 790,000 for ONE month.
And that month was, incidentally, December 2008 – the first full month after obama won the election.
Lanceman on November 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Someone wake me when the Legacy Media reports on the millions and millions of Americans that have completely dropped out of the workforce (and aren’t even tallied anymore) since The One took office…
visions on November 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM
We’ll see.
How long can the Fed prop up the stock market? Down 313 pts yesterday and down another 122 points today.
MacDonald’s is reporting lowered earnings. Too bad they can’t accept Food Stamps, eh?
How is it that “thing are improving”? They aren’t. When companies pare down and economize in a recession they do, indeed, improve their performance. However, at some point reality always comes into play. With less disposable income people naturally buy less. Even a burger and fries is replaced with a lunch of Spam taken to work.
It all eventually catches up.
There is no way out of this without job creation, and with this “president” in place I don’t see how it can happen.
He enjoys our pain and wants more of it.
Cody1991 on November 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM
turfmann on November 8, 2012 at 4:13 PM
I’m seeing a long list of layoff announcements from companies large and small. They are coincidentally coming out just after the election…
Nick_Angel on November 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM
One of the media outlets was doing a story on buses going in droves to vote from the black churces – Souls to the Polls. I watched them crammed into large buses and remember thinking – I’d love to hear the conversations as they make their way to vote for a president. I highly doubt 7.9% unemployment came up.
salem on November 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Is that you, Lew?
adurb44 on November 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Good luck with that. We couldn’t even get reasonable voter ID laws passed (much to the surprise of the UN observers).
UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 4:16 PM
50%? Dream on.
Pork-Chop on November 8, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Yep. There are going to be more and more people fighting for low wage, part time jobs like starving people fighting for scraps of food.
But no one cares.
Cody1991 on November 8, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Having ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC actively supporting the incumbents narrative might have had a lil’ something to do with it.
antipc on November 8, 2012 at 4:18 PM
First, bullshit on your figures. Didn’t happen.
Second, remind me again who you were pulling for in the primaries?
hawkdriver on November 8, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Unemployment at 15% and they have an improving outlook?
topdawg on November 8, 2012 at 4:19 PM
7 weeks till Zerocare kicks in. Cant wait to watch that outlook!
Valkyriepundit on November 8, 2012 at 4:20 PM
I saw someone say in another thread that many people aren’t capable of seeing cause and effect anymore, so you are right. No one will care. They will simply think it’s the fault of “the rich.”
Nick_Angel on November 8, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Is this the same Gallup that said Romney would win? Ok then.
clearbluesky on November 8, 2012 at 4:20 PM
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Yes, yes I know victory dance time for you. But really how do you think most people get thier economic news?
And do you think they reported the news as bad or did they spin it to make it seem not so terrible?
So maybe it should be “Media plan to cover for Obama on economic news yields victory.”
LincolntheHun on November 8, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Wonder if the media will even do a story on the November jobs report next month. Or will the new unemployment number just scroll across the bottom of the screen.
salem on November 8, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Or the number $16 trillion. Or Solyndra. Or Benghazi. Or Fast & Furious (unless they were talking about the Vin Diesel movie).
UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Obama owns all of it now.
Mr. D on November 8, 2012 at 4:21 PM
That was quite carefully stage managed. “Best Supporting” awards to everyone in the mainstream media.
cool breeze on November 8, 2012 at 4:22 PM
So is the Hot Gas Headlines Facebook Experiment finally over?
Del Dolemonte on November 8, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Yes he has since he was last elected but that still won’t stop him from blaming Bush for the next four years if things go to he!! in a handbasket as they will!
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letget on November 8, 2012 at 4:24 PM
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