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U.S. voters don't blame Obama for economy
U.S. voters don't blame Obama for economy
High stakes debut looms for Obama at G20 summit AFP US President Barack Obama (right) alongside Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Washington, DC on
Most Americans Don't Blame Obama for Economy, Poll Finds
Most Americans Don't Blame Obama for Economy, Poll Finds
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Most Americans Don't Blame Obama for Economy, Poll Finds
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Government Efforts To Blame Everyone Else For Economy Working Out Beautifully
Say Anything — ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama benefits from a broadly held perception that others bear the bulk of responsibility for state of the U.S. economy, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published on Tuesday. ...

U.S. voters don't blame Obama for economy
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... consumers for taking on too much debt and the former Bush administration for lax regulation. Only 26 percent said the Obama administration was not doing enough to turn the situation around. Two-thirds of respondents approve of the way Obama is handling the presidency, and 60 percent approve of the way he is handling the economy. Sixty-four percent said were confident Obama's policies will improve the economy, down from 72 percent just before he took office in January. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090331/pl_nm/us_obama_poll... Very bad news for evil.

Royal Mistake
The Nation: Top Stories — ... ." But this time it's not working. Polls indicate that by huge margins people blame the banks and Bush for the collapsed economy, not Obama. Why do techniques that bedeviled the Clintons seem to slide off Obama so easily? Well, for one thing, Obama won his election by the widest margin any new president has garnered since LBJ, and the country really wants a change. Ultimately, though, it was the way the Clintonites governed, as a kind of Republican Lite, that opened them up to charges of hypocrisy and often split the Democratic coalition. The GOP may have lost the war ...

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