Padangekspres.net-Maybe President Obama is right and the struggling economy isn’t his fault after all.
Most Americans blame the nation’s economic woes on Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, according to a new poll.
Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed felt Bush is to be blamed either a “great deal” or a “moderate amount” for the nation’s financial troubles, according to Gallup survey released Thursday.
Obama, meanwhile, received at least some blame from 52% of those surveyed.
The numbers were nearly identical when Gallup asked the same question last September, but the gap has closed somewhat in the last three years. Six months into Obama’s term, he only received 32% of the blame while Bush was faulted by a whopping 80% of those surveyed.
Obama has frequently cited Bush’s policies for the nation’s sluggish economy — which likely could be the deciding issue this Election Day.
The President will deliver a major economic speech in Cleveland Thursday and will reiterate that theme. He is expected to acknowledge that the economy is struggling — and that he needs more time to fix it.
The President will argue that the mess handed to him by Bush’s administration will take more than four years to clean up. Obama will also attempt to further distance himself from his gaffe last week when he claimed the private sector was “doing fine.”
Republicans seized upon those words to paint Obama as out of touch with the nation’s problems, and the Mitt Romney campaign released an attack ad entitled “Doing Fine?” Thursday blaming the President for not fixing the economy.
Romney will also be in the crucial swing state of Ohio Thursday, delivering an economic speech in Cincinnati. A day earlier, he delivered a prebuttal to the President’s address.
“He will speak eloquently, but words are cheap,” Romney told a group of business leaders in Washington. “The record of an individual is the basis upon which you determine whether they should continue to hold onto their job.”
Most national polls show that Romney has pulled nearly even with Obama — and that the President will be vulnerable in November if the economy does not show signs of life.
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