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1 Comment![Tuesday Open Thread [10.7.14]](https://delawareliberal.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Delaware.Flag_.png)
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1 CommentThe economy outpaced all other issues in importance to voters in a New York Times/CBS News poll in mid-September, and 44 percent of Americans rated the economy as good. This marked the highest positive reading since 2007. Even as Americans are feeling better about the economy, they decline to credit the president with its improvement. The Times/CBS News poll found 53 percent of Americans disapproved of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy, and his overall job approval rating was under water, with 40 percent approving and 50 percent disapproving.How Paul Waldman explains this disconnect:
[D]espite the healthy job growth, incomes aren’t rising. A good economy isn’t just one where you’ve got a job, it’s one where you’ve got a job and you’re being paid what you’re worth. The income benefits of the recovery have all gone to the top. Millions of people are also still digging themselves out of the holes they got into during the Great Recession, whether it was foreclosure, credit card debt, or what have you. Even if you now have a reasonably good job, if you lost your home and cashed out your 401K on the way, it isn’t like things are looking spectacular.And so they blame Obama, who saved the country from Depression, and are going to install the Republican Party, who promises to give even more of their money to the wealthy, and whose policies make another Depression likely. No one ever said the American voter was particularly smart.
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9 Comments[Businesswoman Pam Mazanec] then wrote that her concern for the course "is an overly negative view of our history and many of our historical figures (if mentioned)" and cited history professors with "impressive credentials" who told her that the AP History curriculum is designed to "downplay our noble history." She used slavery to illustrate the point:This is a perfect example of the conservative oversimplification of history.As an example, I note our slavery history. Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn't our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional. Does our APUSH Framework support or denigrate that position?
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1 CommentSixty percent [66%] of respondents to the poll, conducted Sept. 10-22 by phone, viewed [Beau Biden,] the second-term attorney general[,] favorably. Just 24 percent of the 902 Delaware adults surveyed held an unfavorable view.VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN (D)
Joe Biden's numbers are at least as good, and maybe better. Sixty-four [64%] percent of adults surveyed held a favorable view, while 30 percent said they viewed the vice president, and Delaware's longtime U.S. senator, unfavorably.GOV. JACK MARKELL (D)
Gov. Jack Markell's popularity slipped slightly in the past year, but his numbers remain strong. In last month's poll, 55 percent viewed the governor favorably, while 25 percent viewed Markell unfavorably. That's down from a 62 percent favorability rating in a University of Delaware poll a year ago.We also have favorability numbers on our Congressional delegation (the three C's), Lt. Governor Denn, and we even have 2016 Presidential horse race numbers for Hillary Clinton and some possible Republican opponents.
