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Day By Day January 30, 2010 – The Big Picture

Day By Day by Chris Muir

Chris, the big picture for President Obama is the economy and instead he has concentrated on nationalizing the health care system with Obamacare – none of which has become law after a year of Congressional action.

Now, the American people do not trust the President.

During his State-of-the-Union address Wednesday night, President Obama spoke about a deficit of trust between the American people and political leaders. New Rasmussen Reports polling on the president’s speech shows just how deep that trust deficit has become.

The president in the speech declared that his administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans. He even chided
Republicans for not applauding on that point. However, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans. Most (53%) say it has not happened, and 26% are not sure. Other polling shows that nearly half the nation’s voters expect their own taxes to go up during the Obama years.

The president also asserted that “after two years of recession, the economy is growing again.” Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false.

Obama claimed that steps taken by his team are responsible for putting two million people to work “who would otherwise be unemployed.” Just 27% of voters say that statement is true. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it’s false.

More than likely it will be impossible to turn around public perceptions about the Congressional Democrats by this November. I predict the Democrats will lose many seats in the House and Senate.

However, if the economy does not turn around by the end of the year, Obama may very well be a lame duck President – just like Jimmy Carter.

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