Voters Don't Have Accurate View of Economy

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October 29, 2010

Voters Don't Have Accurate View of Economy

A Bloomberg National Poll finds that by a two-to-one margin, likely voters in the midterm elections think taxes have gone up, the economy has shrunk, and the billions lent to banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program won't be recovered.
The facts: The Obama administration cut taxes for middle-class Americans, has overseen an economy that has grown for the past four quarters and expects to make a profit on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to rescue Wall Street banks.
Said pollster Ann Selzer: "The public view of the economy is at odds with the facts, and the blame has to go to the Democrats. It does not matter much if you make change, if you do not communicate change."

via politicalwire.com

I really am shocked at how poor the Democratic Party has been at communicating this. If I had the money of the DNC and related groups, I'd be buying up airtime and repeating this ad nauseum.