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applegrove

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Wed May 23, 2012, 11:40 PM May 2012

"Poll Mitt Romney losing the argument over George W. Bush and Unfairness" at Daily Kos

Poll Mitt Romney losing the argument over George W. Bush and Unfairness
the Jed Report at Daily Kos


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093733/-Poll-Mitt-Romney-losing-the-argument-over-George-W-Bush-and-unfairness

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President Obama leads the horserace in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll by a narrow 49-46 margin over Mitt Romney, a tightening from Obama's 7-point edge in April. Beyond the top line numbers, however, the two questions posted above suggest he is in very good shape when it comes to the core arguments about the economy.
First, even though it's been nearly four years since George W. Bush left office, voters are still much more likely to blame him for the country's economic problems than they are to blame President Obama. Second, voters believe unfairness is a bigger economic problem than government excess.

The reason why this is good for President Obama and bad for Mitt Romney is obvious; President Obama's campaign theme is about moving forward from the mess Bush created towards an economy in which everyone has a fair shot and in which hard work and playing by the rules is rewarded with success.

Mitt Romney's problem is equally obvious: he claims his ideas are new, but they are actually straight out of the Bush trickle-down playbook, and Americans don't want to return to that. And instead of focusing on the unfairness of our economic system, Romney's message is that government has gotten too big. And the approach Obama's reelection campaign is taking to its attacks on Bain underscores the fact that Romney represents the economic unfairness that Americans reject.

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"Poll Mitt Romney losing the argument over George W. Bush and Unfairness" at Daily Kos (Original Post) applegrove May 2012 OP
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surrealAmerican

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1. k & r
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:01 AM
May 2012

"voters believe unfairness is a bigger economic problem than government excess"


... and they're right!

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