Poll: Americans blame Bush for bad economy by wide margin

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

By a wide margin, more Americans blame former President George W. Bush for the national economic outlook than they do President Barack Obama, according to a new poll.

Numbers out of Quinnipiac University Thursday morning indicated that 54 percent of Americans say Bush is to blame for exploding the federal deficit and swelling unemployment, whereas just 27 percent believe it is President Obama's fault.

Those figures are bad news for Republicans, who are hoping to hang the nation's poor economic state around the president to defeat him in 2012.

By and large, Americans told Quinnipiac that they trust Obama on the economy more than congressional Republicans, despite a growing dissatisfaction. Fourty-five percent also said they trust the president to help the U.S. economy, versus 38 percent who believe Republicans could do a better job.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/14/poll-americans-blame-bush-for-bad-economy-by-wide-margin/

Rasmussen, not so much.

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Today I needed a shot of hope about the species, thanks! :hi:

Let's say someone blames Bush for the economic situation. Does that person assigns 100% blame to him? Or 75% and 25% to Obama? 55-45? How does it work?

If not for this, we would be in the black. We were under Clinton. It isn't Social Security or Medicare/Medicade bankrupting the country.

If the GOP wanted this to be about Obama, they should have curbed their greed and waited to ask for the bank bailout on his watch.