Most Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track

By a two-to-one ratio--62.8 percent versus 31.4 percent, according to theRealClearPolitics average--Americans believe that the country is headed down the wrong track.

That is never good news for the incumbent president, in a year divisible by four.

And the (rather hackneyed) excuse--that things were just so badly messed up when the president first took office, that he just could not fix them within a mere four years--is not likely to be well received by the voters; most desire a real turnaround, not mere excuses.

Oh, here is a link to the RCP averages: RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Direction of Country

 

Best way to change tracks is to get rid of Obama.

 

It's not a dichotomy. If one person is wrong it doesn't make the other automatically right.

 

the problem is not Obama, the problem is republicans in Congress



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Things were on the wrong track when Obama had a filibuster-proof Congress. That's when he did most of the damage.

 

Nor does one person make a Government.


If it is determined, after careful consideration and fact gathering, that Obama and his followers are the problem, it is not enough to simply get rid of the figure head.


ALL of Obama's supporters, appointees, cronies, flunkies, and sycophants need to go as well.



And you are correct when stating that just because the Democrats are wrong doesn't make what the Republican want to do right for America.


But, continuing to do the same thing, and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.

 

The US is ruled by people so rich and so greedy that they won't allow the mugs enough even to keep believing in their mad system, so those mugs hate Irish Presidents since they are, of course, never racist.

 

True.

But either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will take the oath of office next January. No third-party candidate stands a chance, even to win a single state--let alone the presidency itself.

So, as a purely practical matter, it is imperative to decide which of the two major-party candidates--Mitt Romney or Barack Obama--hews to public-policy views that are likely to be more successful.

And then, vote accordingly.

 

Thread: Most Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track,

And the bloody republicans are blocking any efforts to get us back on the right track.

 

More socialism is no improvement.

 

More precisely, House Republicans are "blocking" the president's fervent attempt to implement Keynesian economic theory, as a palliative to a hugely sour economy...

 

Why do they imagine that one president can & will change it? Is el Presidente our dictator?

 

I still think many are blind...just look at the results in the RNC...that pathetic praising to Romney...lol... no hope for u guys.

 

Well, our current president (together with the Harry Reid-led Democratic Senate) has given us Keynesian economic theory, as the preferred palliative for our economic troubles.

A single president can change that, in favor of Austrian-school economis (often derided by the left as "trickle-down economics"), or in favor of Chicago-school economics (as symbolized by the late Milton Friedman).

 

Most Americans believe that the country is on the right track.

In other news, 99% of voters continue to cast their votes for either Republicans or Democrats

 

Is that why they blocked the jobs bill?
Is that why they have blocked a record number of bills?

Its not about Keynesian theory, its about impeding Obama at every turn, explicitly not co-operating, creating legislative gridlock and then accusing Obama of doing nothing.


that's politics not economics.
Seems to me that if the republicans moved a little more to their historical position of centre-right and were prepared to compromise and co-operate a heck of a lot more would have gotten accomplished.

 

It's halfway through the game and the quarterback is dropping the ball all the time. He hasn't connected but with one pass during the first half and that was fumbled. What does the Coash do? Logic says, put in another quarterback and send the first one to the showers. It's time to bring in Number 45 to replace Number 44.

 

You know that if the people actually believed that the democrat policies were working they wouldn't have tossed them out en masse in 2010 but would have left them in there to pass everything Obama wants. People don't want what the democrats are offering but they want a new direction which is why the republicans are in there. It is now Obama and the democrats that are blocking the will of the people.

 

Which countries are ruled by the poor? Which have ever been ruled by the poor? Do you think any country will ever be RULED by the poor? Head to head, on average, is the average rich person more intelligent than the average poor person? Are both more intelligent than the average politician?

 

Well, it does seem passing strange, then, that in the most optimistic of the five polls cited by RCP (Associated Press/GfK), a mere 35 percent of respondents felt that the country is headed in the "Right Direction"...

 

The moniker, "Jobs Bill," is surely a triumph of Madison Avenue marketing over actual substance.

Yes, it is, indeed, about Keynesian economic theory.

Why should I be shocked--shocked!--that a Democratic apologist would imagine that it is the Republicans who should rearrange their current position, rather than the Democrats rearranging theirs?

Moreover, the (rather puerile) fetish for Getting Something Done in Washington, as displayed by the above post, is precisely the opposite of what I would prefer.

As a general rule, the less that Congress and the president do, as concerning domestic matters, the better...

 

What have Obama really brought to America?

Debt?

Czars?

Government Control of Higher Education Finance?


A whole cast of kooky and radical characters as cabinet members and high level appointees?


Foreclosures and Unemployment?


Oil impacting the Gulf Coast that COULD have been burned at sea?


A Health Insurance bill designed to allow eventual takeover of most Americans Health Care Insurance by the same folks who brought the ponzi scheme of Social Security?




What has President Obama Brought to America that has been on the right track?

 

Sure worked in 1929. Oh wait, no it didn't.

 

Stop blaming obama for everything. The job was just TOO HARD for him, it's not his fault the job turned out to be so hard.

 

Some of us would argue that FDR's New Deal only prolonged the Great Depression, rather than bringing it to an end.

But I really would prefer not to digress...