Washington Post-ABC News poll : Sizable majorities agree with key aspects of Obama’s vision of the economy and his diagnosis of what ails it, and disagree with Romney on those matters. The "Obama is a failure" litany is garbage

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This poll was conducted by telephone May 17 to 20, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,004 adults

Washington Post
Can Obama break Romney’s “Mr. Fix It” spell?
By Greg Sargent
May 26, 2012

Can Obama break Romney’s “Mr. Fix It” spell?


Some excerpts :

But dig deeper into the poll, and guess what: Despite the apparent acceptance of this premise, sizable majorities agree with key aspects of Obama’s vision of the economy and his diagnosis of what ails it, and disagree with Romney on those matters. The key points:

* A whopping 66 percent think the new federal regulations on banks and financial institutions either are about right (28) or don’t go far enough (38). Only 23 percent think they go too far — the position held by Romney, who would repeal those regulations completely.

* Fifty-six percent say unfairness in the economic system favoring the wealthy is a bigger problem than overregulation of the free market, which is named as a bigger problem by only 34 percent. Obama, of course, holds the former view, and Romney holds the latter one.

* Obama holds a sizable advantage on the question of who would do more to advance the interests of middle class Americans, 51-42. Meanwhile, 65 percent think Romney would do more to advance the interests of the wealthy. These numbers dovetail with the argument Obama is making about his GOP challenger, i.e., that Romney’s policies would benefit the rich without necessarily causing a “trickle down” effect that would also benefit the middle class.

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