Half of All Americans Expect US to Still Be in Recession by Mid-term Elections, Foreshadowing Heavy Losses for Obama's Democrats

Half of all Americans expect the US to still be in recession by the mid-term elections, foreshadowing heavy losses for the Democrats. According to a Friday, national telephone survey by Rasmussen, 50% of Americans were convinced that the recession will still be in full force by the end of 2010 and not recovering, as Barack Obama continually likes to spin things by making the economic data look more promising than it really is.

Needless to say, this forecasts quite deadly and heavy bleeding losses for the Democrats since the party in power always gets it from the voters come election time, especially when the economy's in the tank. Add to that the fact that Democrats also have the natural trends of election cycles running against their favor-as the first mid-term election immediately following a national election usually sees losses for the incumbent president's party-and you have a bona fide recipe for good, old disaster for the Democrats.

The Democrats are, blatantly, not helped at all by their party's radical insistence on passing (read: shoving the Obamacare bill down the unwilling throats of Americans) the enormously unpopular healthcare "reform" that has already caused the free-fall drops of the respective approval numbers of prominent Democrats like Harry Reid and Ben Nelson, just to name a few. In fact, each time that the Obamacare bill winds it way through Congress and comes a bit closer to final passage-such as when Harry Reid basically bought off Ben Nelson with an exemption for Nebraska from the Medicaid expansion and also purchased Mary Landrieu's vote in the "Louisiana Purchase"-approval ratings for Democrats crash a little bit more.

In the survey, just a bottom-feeding 20% of Americans predict the recession will be over by the mid-terms (could they all be Obama voters or hardcore Dems?) while, currently, a whopping 71% of adults and 75% of investors, respectively, say a recession is currently underway. Supporting my suspicion that Democrats are currently the only demographic that has a hard time dealing with reality, only a disappointing 40% of them will entertain the idea that the economy will still be recessionary by the midterms while 56% of Republicans and 54% of non-party affiliated adults (read: the grownups) believe the recession will still be ongoing then.

Just as stunningly telling is the statistic that more government employees rather than private-sector employees are bullish on the economy, with 45% of government workers expecting the economy to still be in a recession come the mid-terms, but 54% of private-sector employees believing the same. This is exceptionally significant because government workers and jobs is the one area of the economy which has seen the most growth, mainly because Obama has deviously targeted the bailout money primarily to the government sector! Clearly, this creates a dependence by those government employees directly on Obama, which increases the chance they'll vote for him.

As for the unemployment rate-that nasty, stubborn statistic that will absolutely ruin the Democrats in the midterms-poll respondents said that a whopping 67% of them think the rate will be the same or higher by year's end. Again, underscoring the political devastation that imminently is upcoming for the Democrats.

These are not perceptions by the American, voting public that are beneficial to Democrats; these are perceptions that will inevitably prove to be the nail in the coffin for many repulsive and useless, Democrat politicians. As some have predicted, there will be heavy Democrat losses and maybe even a shift to GOP, legislative control. This survey does nothing to begin to even just slightly dispel that notion.

Can't you just see Barack Obama singing about this recession in this cavalier manner?

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Sources:

50% Expect US Will Be In A Recession At End of 2010, Rasmussen Reports

Rick Fabrizio, Positive spin on recovery might be too soon, SeaCoastOnline

Alexa Lee, Analysts say politics could shift in 2010, BYU Universe

Chris Frates, Payoffs to states gets Harry Reid to 60 votes, Politico

Ed Weaver, Failure is only result possible, Troy Record