From LA Times: "New poll finds Americans not buying Obama's light-at-the-end-of-the-recession talk (Updated)"
"In recent days both Democrat Vice President Joe Biden and the other fellow have begun to make the argument in public that from the point of view of the secure White House, they can somehow see the current dumpster economy smelling better, light at the end of the tunnel, the dawn of a new economic era just over the horizon.
"This is based largely on scattered economic stats indicating that things are not so much really getting better; they're just not getting bad as much as before. ...
"But a new poll indicates it's gonna take a whole lot more than repeated rhetoric to.... ...convince skeptical Americans not feeling the $787 billion economic stimulus. The new CNN / Opinion Research Poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans see the country as good and stuck in a recession and have no doubts about it.
"Fully 86% of the 1,012 adults surveyed said the country remained mired in a recession; 13% disagreed. Seventy-seven percent call it a severe or moderate recession; only 10% light. More than half said their economic position had not improved in the past year and nearly 40% said it was worse. ...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/obama-biden-economy-polls.html
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