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Monday Polls: Economy

The latest Gallup Poll finds that most Americans are confident in President Obama ”to do or recommend the right thing for the economy,” and they have a “much higher level of confidence” in Obama than they do in ”Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, or the Democratic or Republican leaders in Congress”:

And, a new [...]

Americans’ Top Economic Concern is Unemployment

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll released today shows that Americans feel “unemployment is the most important economic issue facing the country today, almost three times higher than the 13 percent who felt the same way last April.”
Inflation is second at 20 percent, followed by the mortgage crisis at 16 percent, the stock market at [...]

Obama To Focus Campaign on Economy

Now that Barack Obama is back in the U.S., after his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe, he’s ready to start focusing on the “top issue for American voters — the faltering U.S. economy.”
That’s welcome news, because every one I speak to from friends to business associates are all concerned with economic issues. As [...]

As I Said: I’m With Broder, John Doe Is Stupid. And Newsweek?

For those of you who are wondering whether John Doe really is stupid: today, Nick Rivera links to this poll. The results of the poll:
Even today, more than four years into the war in Iraq, as many as four in 10 Americans (41 percent) still believe Saddam Hussein’s regime was directly involved in financing, planning [...]