Poll: George W. Bush still blamed for economy

Poll: George W. Bush still blamed for economy


By ANDY BARR | 4/7/10 8:53 AM EDT


Former President George W. Bush gets more blame for the country’s economic troubles than his successor or the Democrats who control Congress, according to a Harris poll out Wednesday.

Thirty-one percent of the 2,344 adults surveyed said Bush deserves the most blame for a rough economy, leading the second-place Wall Street by 6 percentage points.

Democrats in Congress were blamed by 16 percent of those polled, while President Barack Obama was blamed by 14 percent. Republicans in Congress were blamed by 9 percent of respondents, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was blamed by 4 percent.

A majority of Democrats — 53 percent — blamed Bush for the economy. Republicans, meanwhile, blamed Democrats in Congress more than Obama.

“The memory of President George W. Bush and the state of the economy he left as part of his legacy still sticks in the craw of Americans,” wrote pollster Louis Harris in his analysis.

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BETTER than The West Wing!

Anyone who hitched their wagon to the lead weight that was George W Bush deserves to sink into oblivion.

We need billboards for some.

However, Obama cannot continue to use the deregulation that helped those greedy wall street bankers achieve such devastation. Time to stop this wealth give away. President Obama needs to start listening to Elizabeth Warren..... She has a road map to lifting this country out of the ground. But it does involve regulations......

:shrug:

:hi:

Would really love to hear about the sweeping economic changes people think Obama has made. :silly:

More than any other issue, if George W Bush escapes responsibility for this mess, it will lead to victory for the Republicans. Barack Obama is the President, but he is hardly to blame for this entire mess. He is responsible for cleaning it up. He is responsible for changing the policies and disasters of George W Bush and the Republicans.

slither right by.

Fascinating how the GOP numbers have gone up as GWB
is still blamed fot the catastrophe.

Conservative Economic Fundamentalism perverted Capitalism
and drove us in the ditch. The GOP will do it again.

My friends on the Left, focus on the real problem or
we will have a country run by the Righties.

blame Bush for the economy? How could only 31% of this country as a whole blame Bush?

they can only go down from here.