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Majority expects Obama to lose reelection

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  October 3rd, 2011 at 06:20 PM  | 

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A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds only 37% expect Obama to win reelection. A majority, 55%, expect the Republican presidential nominee to win.

Democrats do expect Obama to win, but only by a 58% to 33% percent margin. Republicans, by a margin of 83% to 13%, expect their presidential nominee to win. And Independents, by a 54% to 36 margin expect the Republican nominee to win.

The poll was conducted September 29-October 2, 2011and has a margin of error of 4 percent.

President Obama was asked about the new poll results today during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

In his response Obama called himself the “underdog” and admitted Americans are “not better off” than they were four years ago. Watch the video:

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos: “There are so many people who simply don’t think they are better off than they were four years ago. How do you convince them that they are?”

President Barack Obama: “Well I don’t think they are better off than they were four years ago. They’re not better off than they were before Lehman’s collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we’re going through.”

Obama’s admission will remind everyone of the famous, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” question posed by Ronald Reagan at the end of his debate with Jimmy Carter on October 28, 1980. And that will only reinforce the belief that Obama will be a one-term president.

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  • earlgrey

    4 years ago.

  • joekat

    should not be underestimated. A significant number of people will vote for the favorite because they want to be on the winning side. Herd mentality.

    • http://www.vote4buzz.com Buzz Brockway

      A majority wants Obama to lose.

  • ombd

    … a lot. This is much bigger news than it will be given credit for. Particularly since Obama’s pals at ABC and WaPo can be counted on to see to it that the story has little legs.

    No, Americans are not better off. Virtually no one is. Not even Government workers who, based on recent events, can’t even use the bathroom these days without having the toilets explode … http://bit.ly/o1SUpw

  • toothpick

    …seen on a photo of a bumper sticker on facebook earlier today. A nice updated version of the question Reagan asked.

  • vamoose

    Senate: Dems Jan 2007 – Present
    House: Dems Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
    President: Obama Jan 2009 – Present

    And thousands of Dems entrenched in the federal bureaucracy.

  • nick2253

    I like how all of my liberal friends are decrying Savior Obama’s failures as the workings of the evil Republican. They seem to forget that Democrats had control of the Congress until 2011. However, this is not really any news to me. Honestly, why would we expect a naive, idealistic freshman from Chicago to do any better? I hate to use this example, but it’s like how Germany elected Hitler, with most of the nation completely ignoring the dangers of the Nazi party. Now, Obama is clearly no Hitler, but the analogy stands: as Americans, we must look before we leap, even if it is into the arms of a man who will (supposedly) save us from all our misery. Ignorance is bliss only when knowledge is worse. In this case, ignorance was unemployment.

  • florajo

    So who should we pick to lead us out of this deadend we’ve found ourselves in? I’m not na?ve enough to think that anybody will be better. I’m looking for the exact opposite of Obama. If I can’t have Bachmann, then Perry? (Cain?)

  • RetiredFF

    something of truth…. Hopefully, the ignorant got somewhat educated in the past 3 years.

  • http://www.AmericanThinker.com Hammer2008

    Keep it up Mr. President. First, we’ve grown too “soft” over past two decades then you make this admission? Is your communications team calling Hillary at 3am?

  • jerry39

    For the 2012 election. This is simply an understanding of voter sentiment and is not really helpful to us. He’s reminding people of Reagan’s famous line because he now knows he cant keep pretending its Bush’s fault, and he cant keep pretending the numbers are showing progress. He’s trying to neutralize Reagan’s question just like an attorney brings out the negatives to his case for the jury so that they can best be handled versus seeming to hide the bad facts and letting your opponent bring them out in the worst way.

    Biden did a test balloon on this last week when he said “we own this economy.” Apparently people were impressed by his honesty, not realizing it was merely a cog in wheel of dishonesty.

    This is a multistep gamble and we’re on step one – which is to create the impression of acceptance of responsibility. A good character trait if nothing else. Step 2 or 3 will inform the people why they need to vote for him anyway.

    Maybe its tied into the wall-street camp outs. He will suddenly realize he just wasn’t as socialist as he should have been or whatever and see the same light the campers are seeing. Who knows – but I’d rather have him out there blaming Bush, because we at least know that that isn’t resonating with anybody but 4/5ths of the ladies on the view.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    I do.

    • florajo

      Or because his solutions continue to backfire?

      • cwfoster

        that was his original plan all along. Even a broken clock is right twice a day! He is consistently pursuing the most destructive option available. His idea of a “fundamental transformation of America” involves a wrecking ball. The 37% who plan to vote for him again are either stupid, or commie fifth columnists! Anyone who studied his words before the 2008 election knows that BO himself falls into the second category.

  • Change Jar Conservative

    Have people asking a bunch of “Average” Americans if the American people are better off than they were four years ago.

    Then slip Obama into the middle as one of the people answering No.

    • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

      Mr. Obama has handed the RNC and Reince Preibus a perfect ad.

      It might as well be Mr. Obama’s political epitaph.

      If the RNC were smart – sometimes they are, sometimes not – they will craft the q&a session into a political ad and play it daily next fall from the day following the DNC convention to election day.

      Obama doesn’t even need to wait for his opponent to ask the Reaganesque question, he’s already done it on his own.

      The RNC should play this ad, “”The American people are not better off now than they were four years ago” says President Obama” before and after every debate next fall, during tv prime time on every hit tv show and network and hourly the day before and on election day.