I blame the dimms and then I blame the GOP for acting like dimms when they were in power. Now it's all the fault of the dimms.

It's all Bush's fault that voters for the first time are blaming President Obama nearly as much as President Bush for the country’s continuing economic problems.

i blame the house of reps. it is their job, and they blew it.

But as Glenn Beck pointed out today, The 0bammunist announced that His policies have pulled America back from the brink. So the abyss that we are about to experience is 100% His responsibility.

They are both to blame. BHO is just compounding an already bad situation.

I wish people could understand it`s not just the President but Congress that passes the bad legislation the the POTUS ultimately signs.

I would love to interview just one of these morons that blame Bush. What exactly did he do to bring the economy down when it had a great 4 year run after his tax cuts took hold. The biggest coverup in history is the subprime mess,engineered by the liberal social engineers.The credit default swaps and all the derivitives market were all engineered by Paulson,Geithner,Summers and other insider goons. Paulson was funneling these defult swaps through the caymen islands,to avoid disclosure reporting and were bought by foreign investors, the same foreign investors that got bilions of the TARP bailout.

Wall St. crooks,all dims and the Jesse Jackson Acorn crowd forced banks to make nad laons. Blaming Bush for all this mess is totally insane.Liberlas who brokered the loans cashed in with bonuses on the transactions.

I also bet it was a cabal of rich liberal investors that gamed the oil futures market up last year,raising gas prices and Bush getting blamed for it.

Obama seals the deal if he gets healthcare or cap and trade.

He then owns it lock, stock and barrel. And I fear that much worse is to come.

Note..no Dems ever ever want to talk about the cost of anything..like some fairy is going to make it go away.

Bush won't be running for re-election.

What could Bush have done? I remember Bush tried to clean up the home loan mess but Barney, Chrissy and the rest of the left stopped him cold. Same for the Social Security mess. Of course I only watched Fox News and never the MSM so unlike the 49% that blame Bush, I did know what was going on.

Bush oversaw an economic rebound from a recession and an attack on the United States. During his presidency, unemployment was under 5% and the stock market climbed higher than 14,00, and the deficit was manageable, yet the leftists were able to convince gullible Americans that times were bad. They finally succeeded in driving down the economy at the end of Bush's term. Now after 10 months under Obama, unemployment is more than 10% in some areas, stock prices are unstable, and the deficit has reached the stratosphere, yet the leftists tell us that we've never had it so good. Unfortunately, there are still some gullible Americans who believe them. But these numbers may indicate that some folks are finally beginning to wise up.

What percentage blames Congress ?

I blame Congress!!!!

My predictions
NJ: Christie
Va: McDonnell
NY 23 : Hoffman
CA 10: Garamendi (D)
Washington State- Domestic Partnership for Gays. Yes
Maine: Gay Marriage-Yes

Loss for Obama and loss for Social conservatives as well

Ain't it amazing? 49% still have their heads where the sun doesn't shine and totally refuse to admit what got elected to the white house. I guess most of them think joe stalin was the patron saint of Russia.

This is a pretty close margin.

However, when W left the White House, our auto industry wasn't nationalized, and unemployment was several percentage points lower.

How quickly things turned for the worse when Obama took office. I certainly wouldn't call that a vote of confidence.

49% of the people in this country are idiots.

As they proved by electing Obama in the first place.

#13,

That actually sounds pretty good. A Republican doesn't have a snowball's chance in CA's 10th congressional district anyway.

I know this has been said by many posters, but that is one horrifying picture in the Must Reads section. OMG! KhGawd!

The last time the Republicans held Congress, in December 2006, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent. That should be the Republicans' mantra for winning back Congress next year. By election day 2010, every voter in America should know that number. How hard can it be for the RNC to attain such a simple goal? Signs, bumper stickers, buttons: 4.4%. Yes we can.

This shows how ignorant most people are. Civics should be taught through high school - better yet, integrate it into American History more thoroughly.

Do you suppose that the electorate is finally wising up? Too bad that's it's only a year too late and we'll be suffering for another three years.

Best thing that could happen would be a Republican majority in Congress to bring some balance back into the equation.

#13 Is Maine that liberal that you think they'll pass gay marriage up there?? Every state that's put it up to the voters and I mean every state, has denied gay marriage in the 60% margin at least. Even CA rejected it. I predict it doesn't pass.

i guess that leaves about 6% who are smart enough to realize that presidents have little or no effect on the economy....

Congress has the real power; presidents have bully pulpits at best. Presidents don't rule the country and the last two generations haven't studied any history/civics unless it was Euro-Chinese "history" as interpreted for the hard-of-knowing.

Exit polls have Obama polling 57% approve for Obama, which is good news for Corzine, but I stand by my prediction anyway: Christie, because exit polls are unreliable

I blame George Soros

Why is it that around here we're willing to dismiss some polls and not others? What makes this poll any more trustworthy than others? Granted, Rasmussen is generally more reliable, but still. If we don't trust one poll, I see no reason to trust any.

I have been called for several polls, including polls by Gallup, and found the answers they let you choose from to not nearly cover my feelings on the subject at hand one way or another. What if someone said he blamed Bush for the economy but blamed Congress more, and they weren't part of the list? Or what if they feel the same as I do, and blame both parties--the GOP for selling out their base and the libs for doing what libs do.

This poll is just as meaningless to me as any other.

I guess the Democrats are going to have to find a new platform!

Other posters have it right. How soon some forget that the first 6 years with Bush things were OK. The dems took over both houses for the last 2 years and screwed up the country. I get a little upset with broadcasters and writers referring to the 8 years of the Bush Administration. It's Congress that passes bills.... period.

This is the Pelosi economy for sure.
Things were great until the Dimm congress took over in 2007. First thing they passed was a minimum wage bill. The youth unemployment rate is now close to 50%.

democrats are slow learners. When they get tired of waiting for their Obamachecks, we will get an accurate poll.

#6, Spidey, you have given the best, most concise description of what happened in the last two years of Bush's 2nd term. It still boggles my mind that Pres. Bush didn't see through Paulson. There were serious reservations about Paulson at the time he was confirmed. Paulson,Geithner,Summers are nothing more that crooks,IMHO. Now add the communists appointed by Obama to those crooks and we have a toxic witches brew. Even though Paulson is gone, his legacy lives on.

Why don't you 49% blame the people who are really to blame? Barney Frank and Kris Dodd who started all this giving houses away even way before Bush was elected. Bush tried to stop what was going on about 12 times while he was President, but the democrats would not listen. Now, you can see what happened. Then, Obama got in there and doesn't know one thing about what he is doing and is listening to his czars and they know nothing except mafia ways of running things --- "get every cent you can get from these stupid people," they are saying.

The really awful piece of information that hasn't sunk in yet is that Obama hasn't even thought about employment or fixing the economy. He has spent all that money trying to fake it by pumping up the economic indices that the newspapers publish - rather than employment or investment.

http://memeticsmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/08/politicians-lie-to-reporters-and-then.html

Early on, Obama's administration restated all the main economic statistics back to 1929 to make the anticipated economic recovery look messianic - not realizing that this would only work if the recovery took the specific shape his kids thought it would take. All the statistics have been rewritten, so it's hard to tell what's happening - but it's not a recovery (not one with employment gains, anyway).

http://sayingnicedoggie.blogspot.com/2009/08/fake-statistics-for-spectacular.html

Our kids will blame Bush, what with the lefty wack-a-doodle stranglehold on the education system...

How many people don't understand that for everything President Bush took to spend on things that mattered congress sidetracked a big percentage for their PORK projects. That should be drummed into the public conscience so the blame will be placed where it belongs.

My vote is on #8 and #23. With an !Q Test for the 49%.