“A new poll for The Hill”, reports Sheldon Alberts in that journal, “found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.”
Meanwhile “every single one” of the 17 states elected new Republican governors in November 2010 . . .
. . . has seen its unemployment rate decline since January 2011. Three of them have had unemployment drop by more than 2% (Michigan, Florida, and Nevada). The average drop in the unemployment rate in these states was 1.35%. For a comparison, in January 2011 the U.S. national unemployment rate stood at 9.1%. It is currently 8.2%, meaning that the national unemployment rate has declined by just 0.9% since then. Based on these percentages, it can be said that the job market in states with new Republican governors is improving a full 50% faster than the job market nationally.
By contrast, the “average drop in the unemployment rate in” states which elected a new Democratic governor “0.95%, approximately the same as the drop seen nationally.” (H/t Weasel Zippers via a formerly left-leaning lesbian reader’s Facebook page.)
Wonder how much many more jobs would have been created had the president, through his big-government policies, not changed the nation for the worse. Mr. Romney would do well to highlight some of the Republican executives’ successful policies to better contrast them with the president’s failed agenda.
With just such a contrast, the presumptive Republican nominee can help make the elecction “a referendum on the incumbent” — and his policies. If it is just such a referendum, as Ed Morrissey writes, looking at the Hill poll, “as re-election efforts almost always are — then Obama’s going to need to keep that champagne on ice permanently.“
Which is why those disgracefully free, thriving Republican-led States must be crushed by yet more *national socialist* policies (“national” meaning nation-wide; put the nation and the Dear Reader first…) as soon as possible.
/sarc
The sad thing about statistics of this nature , it is the person in the Oval Office that gets the credit in spite of everything he´s done to retard private sector growth. It was Newt Gingrich, and the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, that gave us balanced budgets, welfare reform, some downsizing of the bureaucracy, and budget surpluses that were historical, but it was Bill Clinton that gets the glory. Democrats love to remind us that Clinton gave Bush a surplus that he squandered.
Roberto, I love your point!! To add to it, the Dow Jones Average closed on 10/31/1994 at 3,908. The Wednesday after the November 1994 election the Dow Jones Average started a bull market run that ended March 2000 at a high of 11,750. That is an increase of 7,842 points, and a 200% increase – all of which Clinton takes credit.
It is a repeatable event starting 11/7/2012 if we can fire Obama. Of course, a number of things have to coincide with Obama being fired. But, that is how powerful the 1994 takeover turned out to be, and it can be very similar this time as well.
So, pray tell, what is the “profile” of the 35% who believe the country has changed for the better under his (Obama) leadership?
Rule 13 of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
With odds of 56 to 35 (9 undecided) it is clearly the time to unleash Alinsky on them what brung him to the dance.
But the Dems will state that the lower employment in states with GOP governors is due solely to President Obama’s policies. The jobless rate for those with Dem governors has gone down less than in Republican states, but that is Bush’s fault and those evil Republicans in the legislature.
No wonder the libs down here hate Rick Scott. Man, you think BDS was based on absolutely nothing but hate, sheesh. All they’ve had to go on was that he was solely responsible for the Columbia/HCA kerfuffle. It doesn’t dawn on them that that’s all Alex Sink had to run on and she failed miserably.
BTW, it’s also weird how they hate Republicans who take corporate donations for their campaign, but they also hate Republicans who pay for their own campaign and won’t take a salary for the job.