Give 'm Hell Mr. President!

President Obama Back Up By 5%, Romney gets a dead cat bounce after last week's debate

In-spite of President Obama's low key performance in last week's debate it seems that American's have decided that Romney's blatant lies and flip-flops mean far more than his mastery of forceful flim flammery.


Romney’s Post Debate Bounce Evaporates as Obama Returns to Leading by 5
By: Jason EasleyOctober 8th, 2012
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Mitt Romney may have gotten one of the shortest post-debate bounces in history as swing state and national polls reveal Obama in the lead.


The big confusion today has been over the Gallup daily tracking poll. On Monday morning, the Gallup daily tracking poll had the race tied at 47%-47%, but by Monday afternoon, the poll was updated to show President Obama leading 50%-45%.  -end of clip-

read full article:

http://www.politicususa.com/romney.html

ARE WE BETTER OFF THAN 4 YEARS AGO?

7949 DOW close on Bush's last day in office
13,448 yesterday (Biggest 3.5 year gain -EVER-)

-800,000 jobs per month Bush's last month in office
For the 12 months between March 2011 and March 2012, the economy added 2.4 million jobs, or an average of 200,000 per month. (The greatest turnaround -EVER-)

-64%, my 401K under 8 years of Bush
+426%, my 401k under 3.5 years of President Obama
(Biggest turnaround in my 401K -EVER-)

Are we better off than 4 years ago. You betcha!

NYT: Don’t Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked

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The reputation of the stimulus is meticulously restored from shabby to skillful in Michael Grunwald’s important new book, “The New New Deal.” His findings will come as a jolt to those who think the law “failed,” the typical Republican assessment, or was too small and sloppy to have any effect.

On the most basic level, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is responsible for saving and creating 2.5 million jobs. The majority of economists agree that it helped the economy grow by as much as 3.8 percent, and kept the unemployment rate from reaching 12 percent.

The stimulus is the reason, in fact, that most Americans are better off than they were four years ago, when the economy was in serious danger of shutting down.

But the stimulus did far more than stimulate: it protected the most vulnerable from the recession’s heavy winds. Of the act’s $840 billion final cost, $1.5 billion went to rent subsidies and emergency housing that kept 1.2 million people under roofs. (That’s why the recession didn’t produce rampant homelessness.) It increased spending on food stamps, unemployment benefits and Medicaid, keeping at least seven million Americans from falling below the poverty line.  -end of clip-

read full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/dont-tell-anyone-but-the-stimulus-worked.html?_r=2

The Clown Who Would Be President

42 Million Jobs Created Versus 24 million, Yet Another Democratic Economic Success Story

And remember in November, Willard Romney wants to re-institute the George W. Bush economic policies that produced the worst job creation numbers since Herbert Hoover, the second deepest economic downturn since the Republican gifted Great Depression and the worst accumulation of national debt since Ronald Reagan.


Romney is doubling down on the most disastrous economic policy in 70 years. That seems like a bad idea to me.

see also, JOB GROWTH:        http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/job-growth.html
               NATIONAL DEBT:  http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/national-debt.html
         ECONOMIC RECORD:  http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/economic-record.html
 HISTORY OF RECESSION:  http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/economic-record.html

IF YOU WANT TO LIVE LIKE A REPUBLICAN, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

"Are We Better Off Today Than 4 Years Ago?" YES! But who you gonna believe Lying Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney or your lying eyes? -graphs-

Once again I will state: this is the historical norm of the last 80 years, Democrats cleaning up after Republican messes. President Obama is doing FAR better than George W. Bush, just as every Democratic president for the last 80 years has done far better than his Republican predecessor.
(see sidebar page links on job creation, national debt, economic record and history of recession.)

source: http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/news/2012/09/04/36357/are-we-better-off-now-than-in-2008-you-betcha/