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Obama’s Path To Victory: 62% of Americans Support The American Jobs Act
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has found that 63% of Americans support the American Jobs Act, and 64% of those surveyed agreed that it is a good idea to raise taxes on the wealthy.
When the poll asked if the American Jobs Act should be passed, 30% of respondents said yes, 22% said no, and 44% had no opinion. Overall, the legislation is very popular with the American people. By nearly a 2 to 1 margin (63%-32%), those polled supported the bill when the details of legislation were included in the question. The poll also found that almost 2/3 of Americans (64%) think that it is a good idea to raise taxes on the wealthy. Only 31% of respondents think that increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations is a bad idea.
The results of this poll are good news for Obama and even better news for his reelection campaign. There is no doubt that the president wanted his jobs bill passed, but politically speaking arguing in favor of creating jobs is a winning issue for him. Obama has a powerful one-two punch of the jobs issue and the tax the rich issue working in his favor.
The president will continue to politically benefit as long as Republicans continue to not even discuss creating jobs, and refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy. I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that 44% of Americans had no opinion on whether or not the bill should be passed. Thus far, the 2012 GOP nomination fight has been more of a freak show than must see television. Unlike 2008 when the compelling Obama/Clinton showdown gripped the nation, most people probably won’t tune in to the 2012 campaign until after Labor Day 2012.
Republicans are so busy courting their ideological base that they don’t seem to realize that they are doing Obama a huge political favor. If the American Jobs Act would have moved forward and eventually passed, the discussion would have been about the effectiveness of Obama’s jobs bill. The 2012 election might have been a referendum on the American Jobs Act.
Instead, Republicans have opened the door for Obama to campaign on the question of who wants to and can create jobs. Since none of the Republican presidential candidates have an actual jobs plan, Obama can campaign against both congressional Republicans and the 2012 GOP nominee at the same time.
Obama’s message that the wealthy and corporations need to pay their fair share, and that we need to create jobs is resonating well with the country.
The path to a second Obama term is clear. The president must defy conventional wisdom and campaign on the economy. He has to define himself as the only candidate who is willing to create jobs, protect entitlements, and make the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. Obama remains personally popular. The American people support his positions on jobs and taxes.
Obama must drive the message home, and convince voters to toss the obstructionist Republicans out of office, and give him a Congress that is ready to put the American people back to work.
If he does these things, Barack Obama will defy the odds and be returned to the White House for a second term.
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27 Responses to Obama’s Path To Victory: 62% of Americans Support The American Jobs Act
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Conservative Heart
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Stop whining about jobs, you bunch of filthy, unemployed hippie liberals!
No one in America cares about jobs! Real Americans only care about not having to unduly tax millionaires. Oh, and we also care about those damn illegals because they’re stealing good jobs Americans could be doing.
Cha Eva
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
President Obama is doing something about JOBS for people who can’t find work and getting America’s infrastructure stronger too..while asshole lying gops are only obstructing with lies because that’s all they know.
“Real Americans”? Where’d you that piece of shit talking point? Straight from the pig’s mouth? Fucking idiot.
bob
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 2:26 am
actually i’m pretty sure you are the fucking idiot for not being able to read into the real intent of others comments.
Illegal
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 2:29 am
Oh yeah because Americans want to be scrubbing toilets and landscaping right??? As a matter of fact, most illegal immigrants are doing the worst jobs, are getting exploited, and recieve very little to no benefits. Is that what Americans want? Yeah, I didn’t think so. You must be speaking on behalf of the 1% because last time I checked, 10% of America is unemployed and more and more workers are being laid off.
Elijah
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe... ?
Thomas Bishop
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Republicans killed a bill that would create jobs now and that the American people support — while standing by their proposals to extend tax cuts for large corporations, millionaires and billionaires while allowing Wall Street to write its own rules.
Correction: It’s not Math — It’s Class Warfare. Armor up.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
president Obama is pursuing the only logical course to get money into the hands of the middle class. It’s like starting a fire. You start out small and you end up with a big fire If you put enough fuel on it. but it’s apparent to me that the upper class has the money they need to get by on and it’s coming from Europe and Asia. That means that the small businessman in the United States who supplies American corporations is screwed.
there are several ways we can go about this but one way is to take the money that is tied up in the top 20% and give it to the people who need to live on it. If you want to call it socialism going at I really don’t care what it’s called. If you have all that wealth sitting in one spot so to speak it’s not available in the economy. It’s no different than the billions that the Mexicans And the Indians send home. It’s no longer in our economy and it wont be spent here.
We can’t have jobs without the middle class having purchasing power. And that is very obviously something the Republicans are working against
Johnee
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
I see what your saying Shiva. Yes, the most important reason for the Jobs act is to get these people working again. However, growth in the private sector is absolutely essential for any type of economic recovery, and that is what the American Jobs act would do as well.
The GOP likes to try to sell an alternate reality version of economics set in some strange mythical past, where the rich and upper classes had and controlled everything and the rest of the population benefited from all the goodness that rained down upon them. EEEEENH! WRONG! Never happened and never will. I prefer evidence based economics to Never Never Land economics.
Private industry ( particularly small business )has always benefited and flourished when a sizable portion of the local population are public employees, because they spend their money! Even if you go back and look at the building of Hadrians Wall in Roman Great Britain ( an infrastructure project )entire towns sprung up around the soldiers building the wall with merchants and businesses to provide them with every service imaginable.
If a lot of people are working on infrastructure projects around the country, small business will certainly benefit. Contractors, retail, bars, restaurants, theaters, you name it.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
That is the desired outcome of the Jobs Act.. Private sector jobs are vital. The government whether its federal, state and local create a tremendous amount of jobs in Infrastructure. Why the GOP is fighting this is beyond me except that its Obama’s plan. They agreed to these actions last year, now its verboten.
And with the money they make from infrastructure, they do what you say. Spend it to create more jobs. You see, WE are the job creators.
Ever seen trains in Japan or Korea? Or some of the public buildings in both places? We are light years behind culturally as well as financially. And its all because of money being held in the top 20% and being sucked out of the economy
CJ
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Well said Shiva!
Mr. Peabody
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
It’s just a matter of time;when the elections come they’ll see where America wants to go!!
Doris
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Lovin it,Rethugs…just keep on diggin that ditch that Bush created and be sure it is wide & tall because that will be your destination, OBAMA 2012′
Reynardine
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Let us make it plain that the Republicans are exsartaginating (ex= out of; sartago= frying pan)
budee
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
conservative heart is a euphemism for having no heart at all. or brain for that matter.
Ingarose
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
I think ‘conservative heart’ is playing around here. Some take him seriously and are very upset about him (or her by the way) and others think that he is using satire.
Regardless, he has people guessing and that is good. The minute that any website becomes too one sided it is not too good.
Sure, we like to point out the insane website of C4P which borders on the insane. Yet, one has to be careful not to become so one sided on the other side.
I like this site, but the minute that one says something negative about Obama one gets to be put down.
Cha Eva
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Yeah, it’s stupid enough to be satire or what the idiots actually spew because of their constant brainwashing.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Its rare you can have a conversation with the “other side” Inga that is coherent. What you see here is only a part of the stuff that has to be tossed because people come here only to slam Obama. It is mostly liberal people here and its not often that someone writes anything from the other side that can be responded to in a decent conversation
Cha Eva
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
It’s code for “lying asshole”.
Grasshopper
Oct. 12th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Just switch out Hillary for Joe and you’re looking at the greatest landslide in history. The Repubs are finished.
Black
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 9:04 am
There’s an old saying in New York. Which paper sells the most, The New York Daily News or The New York Times? At the time The Daily News was the larger selling paper.
The question is Which is the better paper. Yes, now you can see clearly that majority doe not mean better anything!!!
Aaron
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 10:34 am
It is amazing that a bill that is supported by 62% of the American people did not pass. Aren’t our representatives supposed to represent us and not their re-election campaign?
Doug
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
While I do agree that the rich should pay their just dues on taxes, I don’t think this bill will help much. The rich are rich because they know how to NOT pay taxes. They have staff and lawyers that find loop-holes in legal systems. The rich are also the ones writing this bill – can guarantee a few loop-holes. In the end the rich will find a way to avoid paying into these new taxes.
Also, are they the problem? The rich can create jobs, buy out competition in other countries and bring more jobs to the Americans. I saw it mentioned by a few people that a major problem is the money that leaves America. I propose a tax on any money that leaves the country. If you want to send your family back in Malaysia American money – then you’re going to pay a bunch back to the American people.
The Government also needs to crack down on their expenditures, on cheap products sold to Americans, and ridiculous fees. It’s come to light that ISP’s have been gouging Americans and lying about data transfer costs – the Government should put an end to this (more money in American pockets). The Government should set standards for products sold in America, bookshelves should be able to hold books without sagging, floors should last decades not years, and so on, again more money in Americans pockets. The Government should regulate credit and mortgages making it harder to get both.
The Government also needs to clean house, trim down wages, stop buying premium office supplies, stop purchasing oak desks, state-of-the-art-built-for-gaming computers, and so on. Also, how about decriminalizing drugs and prostitution. This will save millions – maybe billions of dollars. How many jails and prisons are filled with criminals related to the two. I am not going to go into too much detail here, but think about it – safe cheap drugs, a safe place for people to have sex. Making it safer cheaper and accessible would basically kill the entire criminal world built on these. No criminal activities, no criminals, more room in jails. Also, how about stopping all these stupid lawsuits, again cut-off the fat and eat the meat would mean a lot of money saved.
There are many many more ways for the Government to save money, another idea do you really need FBI, CIA, DEA, State Police, Local Police, SWAT, Bomb Squads, Military and so on? Maybe get rid of a few – just an idea, think of it as twelve contractors building a 900 sq.ft. house when one could do a fantastic job.
I am no politician but I can see problems with this bill, and better avenues to put more money back into America’s pocket.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
In agreement with you,in part of your post, the money that leaves the United States by immigrants here is incredible. Mexico’s second-largest source of income into their economy comes from immigrants here sending money to Mexico. People from India also send a tremendous amount of money back home. None of this does the American economy any good. I too agree that money that leaves the United States needs to be taxed.
Our trade imbalance is really killing us. We allow countries to send stuff here with little to no tariffs whatsoever. This is wrong. Any country that charges us a tariff should be met with an incoming tariff here as well.
The government may need trimming down some I agree. But not if it affects the American people negatively. If we had a full complement of working people in this country no one would even think we had a spending problem for an instant. The reason we are told that the government has a spending problem is because much to the Republicans happiness there is less money going into the fed.
just as the people who send money out of the country back to their families, a small portion of our population holding most of the wealth means that that money is sucked out of the economy the same as if it has been sent to mom and pop in Mexico. We need a huge tax reform that takes away deductions from everyone. The same with election reform. Purely public financed. A Corporation is a place that people go to work, it does not live it does not breathe nor does it bleed.It should not be part of the electing of our representatives
I am concerned with only one thing. of the huge middle class in this country so they can start purchasing. They are the job creators
Doug
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Very interesting reply.
What I mean with trimming down the Government is more to do with high wages and unnecessary divisions and expenses. When I mentioned all the different policing agencies I meant get rid of the separation by divisions, merge them, reduce high wages and so on. Other divisions in the Government can be converted into other necessary divisions, example; if drugs where decriminalized and regulated the DEA can be converted into the moderating agency for the quality and sales of narcotics. Also I’ve worked with the Government and witnessed the tons of unnecessary amounts of paper they use, how much the pay for office supplies, how no one controls costs or buys products on sale – or even shops around for the best price. They form contracts with suppliers and that’s that. They never check to see if their supplier is screwing them, which most of them are.
I do like your comparison of the rich to people sending money to other countries. I never thought of it like that, but thinking that way… Would it not be better than to make it easier for and offer incentives for the rich to open more businesses in America? I am thinking that taxing the rich has some benefits, but would be far more beneficial to the American economy to look at other areas instead. I also agree with you 100% that no corporation has any right to affect elections.
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
I have an ugly feeling that the only way we could give incentive to the American corporations to stay in American hire Americans is to work for sweatshop wages. this regulation and taxes thing that the GOP presents to us as the problem has nothing to do with the problem. The price of materials is going up, therefore the wages have to go down. They expect us to work for less but do not intend on lowering the price of their products. That, as George Bush would say, is a five spiral path to a crash.
the United States government could do themselves a great favor by learning how General Motors deals with its contractors. I have worked in the past with General Motors and trust me, you don’t get away with nothing.
What we need is people organizing unions where the sweatshops are and in the Asian countries where these people get their nine cent an hour laborers. Either that or simply tell the corporations that every penny of overseas profits is going to be taxed
Off the subject, I signed a petition the other day aimed at Hershey chocolate Company. Their the last American chocolate company who is utilizing child sweatshop labor overseas to make their chocolate. I will not buy Hershey chocolates
Doug
Oct. 13th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I agree with you entirely here.
I would support taxes on all international profits, and taxes on all money transfers to international parties. Therefore if you are a multinational corporation within America and you transfer profits made within America to an international business, bank, and/or persons you should be taxed. If you have an American company using international companies for labor etc. you pay tax or fees in doing so. If you have an American company and deal mostly outside (profits or purchases) you should pay a tax in doing so.
I am not talking about a 12% tax or anything ridiculous, just a reasonable amount to entice keeping your business and money within the American boundaries, but not enough to cause companies to pack-up and leave.
In the mean-time I am going to sign that petition.