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Independents say Obama hurts job creation
(Reuters) – With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney delivering dueling visions for the U.S. economy in speeches on Thursday, a majority of independents said that Obama’s policies have made it harder for Americans to gain employment, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.
Fifty-two percent of independents said they agreed with the idea that the president has not helped create more jobs in America, an argument central to Romney’s campaign.
Obama appears to have trouble convincing some members of his own party that his administration has been good for jobs: 29 percent of Democrats said they agreed with the claim that he has not been a job creator.
With the unemployment rate at 8.1 percent, the Obama campaign maintains that 4.2 million private-sector jobs have been created since he entered office in January 2009, although roughly as many have been lost.
“I think the thing that Obama’s team is going to be worried about is the number of independents who agree that the policies the president has put in place make it harder to create jobs,” said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson. “The key conversation is convincing them that the things he has done have helped the economy or not certainly made things worse.”
Corona
June 17th, 2012
Independents. Give them bath salts.
Nutjob
June 17th, 2012
29% agree he’s not a good job creator.
Means at least 61% of the democrats are absolutely clueless and believe anything the fuhrer says.
cfm990
June 17th, 2012
Glad to see they are being slapped out of their delirium.
persecutor
June 17th, 2012
Independents got us into this mess in the first place.Let’s hope this sticks.
Pickled Liver
June 17th, 2012
“Fifty-two percent of independents said they agreed with the idea that the president has not helped create more jobs in America…”
In further news – 48 percent of independents are government employees or brain dead!
Corona
June 17th, 2012
One thing about Godley and Creme, they got MOR right on the money.
Team America
June 17th, 2012
@persecutor – you’re right. They got us into this mess in the first place. Let’s hope they can help right the wrong.
Maudie N Mandeville
June 17th, 2012
‘Independent’=wet finger in air.
2008: wet finger=1st black president smiling at me on the telly surrounded by adoring feinting fans. I get so excited when others are excited. Color me happy.
2012: wet finger=Everyone’s thrill is gone; I’m down in the dumps along with the economy. I get depressed when others are depressed. Color me sad.
MADJACK
June 17th, 2012
So the amount of really dumb muthafuckers remains at at all time high!
Dammit how can there still be so many that still buy into Oblowme’s destructive course for America?
Holy Shit, how did America get so many ignorant, uneducated and gullible people?
MADJACK
June 17th, 2012
@Maudie N Mandeville, somewhere in that mix you should have said heads up their asses!
harry t
June 17th, 2012
“how did America get so many ignorant, uneducated and gullible people?”
how many years of govt screwals?