Gallup: President Obama Has Upper Hand in Stimulus Debate

"Attention American People", President Obama's stimulus package, must be passed.President Obama warned about the Wall Street crash a few years ago, and what did the Republicans do? Nothing! You must voice your support for the stimulus package plan by contacting your Congressmen! Republicans are Rich, and dont care about the average American, who has to struggle to get by day by day!Stand up and voice your support now!

Since Gallup got it badly wrong during the 2008 election, they are not known for their accuracy.

I prefer the Rasmussen poll( one of the most accurate in the 2008 elections) which says only 40% of Americans support the stimulus package.

This is just more proof that Obama knows what he's doing. Every time the pundits start to doubt him, he proves them wrong. Last week the media was abuzz with stories about how Obama had lost control of the stimulus debate, and that the Republicans were swaying public opinion. Then the evidence comes out, it's exactly the opposite, just like during the campaign when they said the debates were a tie, or that McCain was gaining traction with Joe the(not a)Plumber and his socialism hysterics.

CNN has even better numbers on this, Obama has a 76% approval rating there, with 67% approval on the economy.

I can only hope that the Republicans keep it up with their patented whining and fake outrage strategy, because it seems to be working...for the Democrats.

Chloe, you say, of Republicans, "They don't know the simpliest of things." You mean, perhaps, like how to spell? If you are going to make fun of people in such a juvenile way, you have to expect some of it to rebound on you. I saw Mr. Steele on ABC (all caps) yesterday and did not find that he embarrassed himself at all. George, on the other hand.... let's just say the Rahm talking points were showing. Mr. Steele made an excellent distinction between make-work projects and actual long-term jobs.

As a Republican, I can tell you that I understand completely that TRUE stimulus means spending, but not just any old spending. It must be focused in the right way. Spending on raising the Pell Grant maximum by 400 or 500 dollars is NOT stimulative. Spending on smoking cessation programs is NOT stimulative. Much that is in the bill is payback to Pelosi and company's supporters, which is pure old-fashioned pork, not stimulative spending.

You say Republicans are "dumb" and "believe anything their leaders tell them." You are not proving to me, at least, that you are doing more than parroting the ideas of the "leaders" of your own party, if you include Mr. Kos among them. Knee-jerk agreement with President Obama is just as foolish as knee-jerk disagreement. I have found the discussion of both sides of the issue for the most part very thoughtful around here lately. There are, obviously, exceptions to that rule.

"Say what you will about the Reagan tax cuts, they enabled me to amass a great deal of personal wealth during the 1980's and early 90's,starting virtually from scratch." -LH

This is exactly why George HW Bush called Reagan's "Trickle Down Economics" by the name "VOODOO Economics." They never trickle down.

The only economics that have worked in the last few decades is Clinton economics, which also had zero Republican support, and which brought us the longest economic expansion in our history.

However, Clinton economics may not have allowed LH to "amass a great deal of personal wealth."

With Clinton, the aim was to get all boats to rise. He accomplished that, AND he left GWB with record surpluses.

GWB ****** the record surpluses away, in an attempt to help the top 1% of Americans to amass a great deal of personal wealth.

How'd that work out for the rest of us?

"Say what you will about the Reagan tax cuts, they enabled me to amass a great deal of personal wealth during the 1980's and early 90's,starting virtually from scratch." -LH

Read this post carefully people. It's the very reason why tax cuts don't work. Reagan ran up a huge deficit while a few swines got rich. Do you think that they are the ones that end up helping to pay the deficit back down?

It just seems to me that the Republicans are trying to use this stimulus package to destroy positive ratings toward Obama and resurrect their party.

They don't seem to care about the people who have lost their jobs, their health care and their homes. Whatever happened to conservative compassion?

Jake, I've been closely following the media coverage of the debate and am delighted yet shocked by the poll. The surpose is that the Republicans, having seemingly dominated the framing of the package debate, has such a low approval rating.

Jake, what is the rational explanation for this? Even the panelist on Charlie Rose seemed to come on the side that President Obama had lost control of the message?

With the recent Bush's administration growing the debt from 5.7 trillion to 10 trillion dollars with nothing much to show for it except international disrespect, thousands of our soldiers dead from the Iraq War, more Americans than ever without health insurance, huge job losses, a banking system near collapse and an economy spiraling down, Obama's economic bill doesn't sound too bad at a paltry 800 billion. There is a lot of good stuff in the bill for ordinary people, job creation, technology money and just a smattering of pork. Maybe that is what is bothering the Repubs that are against it. Too much for the little guy.

"Republicans seem not to know that stimulus means Spending."

Chloe,

The spending that has to occur to create a true recovery in consumer spending, NOT Government spending!

People are not going to spend if they do not have confidence that the job they have will still be there in a few months. Hence the reason most people are not spending right NOW!

Here is one for all the liberals out there....

How many people had the government laid off ?
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All these people who are currently unemployed worked for companies! Exactly how is the ridiculus PORK PIE going to help those companies or new ones create jobs that give peoiple confidence to spend again?

Feel free to run off at mouth about its all Bush's fault, None of those rants matter NOW!

This now Obama's Problem palin & simple. He could have told Pelosi up front - Do NOT loaf the stimulus bill with PORK, or I will bury YOU in the public forum!

He chose to let her create this mess, and because of the oppostion, we got to find out just how much SHE really cares about the American people! If Democrats really cared aboput solving these issues, they would remove her from the Speakership immediately!!!

John Marvin,

Did you actually READ that Bill ?

EVEN OBAMA realized in the end that Pelosi had screwed this up completely!

The house bill had ZERO chance!

What the house past was a good bill. What the Senate has done is weaken it.
It's shameful that conservatives who broke the economy are trying to block the rest of us from fixing it.

I have heard that health provisions in the stimulus package create a new health czar and make it possible for the federal government to access the digitized medical records of everyone in the U.S.

Anyone know if this is true?

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~ Ben Franklin

Stop the phony stimulus bill. It will only saddle our children and grandchildren with more debt and, if anything, will prolong the recession.

Economies are cyclical. Doing nothing will save us our tax money and will have the same result as throwing money down the deep, dark hole under the false pretense that it will create jobs.

Let failing industries fail and let successful industries take their place. It is the natural ebb and flow of business.

President Obama needs to quit drumming up fear and encourage Americans to have confidence that our economy will turn around in its own time.

No socialist country has ever had a successfull economy (except for the minute few elites at the top hiding in their fortresses). It doesn't make sense to copy the very political system that our fathers and grandfathers fought to keep at bay.

Don't worry the stimulus will pass and after Rahm E. takes over the 2010 census (which until now was a commerce dep. job)there will be no more rep. party and the dem. won't need Acorn anymore.

Hey wingnuts, Reagan & George W tax cuts cost $7 trillion of our $11 trillion national debt. Hence, you people have zero credibility on BOTH economic policy & fiscal policy! Quite a feat! Kudos!

ANOYMOUS
We know according to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, The Conservatives and Republicans Are coming back getting stronger and Obama is sinking hahahahahlolololhahaha I Wonder do those two share the Pills?

Republicans keep yelling this package is going to spend our money. Well DUH?
Republicans seem not to know that stimulus means Spending.

Republicans don't seem to get that we need to get money to people who will spend it or in other words, stimulate the economy.

This is the party of dumb. Michael Steele, Joe The Plummer, Sara Palin
They don't know the simpliest of things.
Steele was embarrassing on Abc yesterday. Remember Joe the Plummer didn't even understand that Obama's plan would be better for him and his fake business he was going to start and Sara Palin couldn't even come up with one publication that she reads or one supreme court decision. They should change the name of the republican party to the Dumb party. They believe anything their leaders tell them.

"I don't believe in polls... Obama's approval poll has dropped down below 60%."

Um, contradiction in Aisle 5. CLEANUP!

I don't believe in polls. It is the mainstream news media. Obama's approval poll has dropped down below 60%.