Jon Walker at Firedoglake has a post on a new Gallup poll
finding that 90% of Americans think now is a really lousy time to try to find a
good job. That ties the highest percent
saying the job market was lousy since the recession of 2008.
What’s most interesting about Walker’s post are his closing
comments. He wrote:
The only small silver
lining to these horrendous job perception poll numbers is that it is almost
mathematically impossible for the poll numbers to get much worse. If a generic Republican still
isn’t beating Obama with perceptions about the economy being this
horrible, it is hard to imagine how awful the economy would need to be for the
GOP to be polling with a significant edge in the 2012 election.
It is amazing how
damaged the GOP brand is right now. Their front runner candidates aren’t
polling better than an incumbent president who, based on the current
terrible state of the economy, should be heading for a massive loss.
Could it be that Republicans want “Anyone-but-Romney” and
Americans in general want “Anyone-but-a-Republican”? Could Obama end up winning, not because
American voters think he is such a good President but that they think anyone
the Republicans seem to be able to offer would be so much worse.
Maybe the Obama slogan should be: “Vote for Obama, Not great, but a lot better
than the alternative.”
Read Walker here:
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