Dems to Obama: Voters don't believe economy talk

byByron York Chief Political Correspondent
postedJun 12 | 12:07pm at12:07pm



Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville have released a striking new report arguing in stark terms that some key voting groups now reject President Obama's claim that the economy is improving -- and may well reject Obama himself in November.

Democracy Corps, the political consulting group run by Greenberg and Carville, showed several Obama campaign commercials to focus groups in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Several of the group members, who were "all independents or weak partisans and ticket-splitters" and included both Obama and McCain voters from 2008, became irritated when shown Obama ads touting economic improvement. They don't see that improvement in their own lives, the report says, and they don't believe Obama when he claims things are better.

"The spots that simply talk about progress on the economy did not do well," Greenberg and Carville write. "The first offered a graphic depiction of job decline during the early months of the recession and job growth under President Obama. The second highlighted progress on jobs in the automobile industry. These ads did not win over most Obama voters….Half the participants in the groups had voted for Obama, but less than a quarter gave [the auto ad] a positive rating. The spot displaying the job growth graph did not fare much better: only about one-third (12 out of 34) gave this a positive rating."

Read more: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/dems-obama-voters-dont-believe-economy-talk/593901

All Fantasy.

Obama's economic tricks haven't worked and you can't base a campaign only on envy of the rich.

Yep he can keep saying it all he wants. People are learning not to trust a word he says.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47795138

U.S. retail sales fell for a second straight month in May and wholesale prices dropped by the most in three years, offering more evidence of a downshift in the economic recovery.