President Barack Obama gets little credit from the public for economic progress under his watch as his job approval has plummeted to a new low of 42 percent in the Bloomberg National Poll. Americans by 50 percent to 45 percent say improvements in the unemployment rate would have happened regardless of anything the Obama administration has done. …
“It’s obviously damaging to Democrats as a party that voters can’t connect the dots between the president’s policies and the kind of economic recovery that takes place,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “Of all the issues, that’s the one that parties can really thrive on, when voters think that a party has helped the economy do well.” CONT.
Mike Dorning, Bloomberg