WAPO: Here's comes the recovery- there goes Willard!

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by imbobbbb

'Swing voters' don't make up 50% of the electorate.While I agree that they aren't going to study 10 year projection cbo charts they mostly aren't going to pay much attention to 10 second news blips about gdp either.They are going to focus on how 'they see' things trending.No one I know 'feels' things are any better then last year or the year before.People are going to have to see their own lives improving before they are going to buy into the 'things are getting better' trend.When 1 in 5 people own a house worth less than what they owe on it and see the businesses they work for threatened with going under they aren't going to be in a rush to jump on the 'things are great' bandwagon.

How people in the 'swing states' perceive things will decide the election.No one in Nevada is going to care if things are great in NewYork if they still suck in Nevada.People often overestimate a presidents ability to affect a lot of economic factors too.Presidents always get blamed for things beyond their control......but often get undeserved credit when things are going good also.

The point was not that they woudl study the CBO projections, the point was what the projections predict and it is not all that inspiring or positive.

[imbobbbb]

Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

The point was not that they woudl study the CBO projections, the point was what the projections predict and it is not all that inspiring or positive.

I'm a big enough geek to know what you are talking about and agree with your point,for that matter the projections are downright depressing....I was just agreeing with the op that many voters won't pay attention to such things.I also noted they werent going to pay much attention to some of the 'indicators' he mentioned either.
I'm glad in some areas people can give anecdotal evidence that things 'feel like' they are getting better.It doesn't seem that way in my area in the circles I inhabit.In most states we can already predict which way they are going to vote,in the ones which can go either way how people 'feel' about the economy will likely determine the outcome whether their feelings are based in reality or not.

[Sunny-Days-in-Florida]

Oh yea great recovery.

35 months above 8.0 unemployment

Record people on welfare.

Record people filing foreclosures

Record people filing bankruptcy

Record people falling below poverty level meaning Obamas newly created jobs are all low paying under poverty jobs.

Like Mitt said, 5 million lost jobs minus 2.5 million low paying jobs Obama is bragging about is still NET -2.5 million jobs lost under Obama which is not acceptable when someone stole 8 billion dollars to fix something.