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To: greatplains_guy who wrote (59634)	12/1/2012 12:26:52 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

Americans' expectations for Obama 2.0 plunge Rather than bother with the messy business of face-to-face negotiations with Republicans over the looming fiscal cliff, Barack Obama has chosen to take Air Force One up to the Philadelphia area today to talk at another adoring crowd. Because no one's had enough campaigning yet? Obama craves speeches to select crowds, as we wrote here. On cue, someone yells they love him. He loves them back. No interruptions. No impertinent House Majority Leader challenging his arrogance. And Obama need make no concessions to them. The Democrat will just recite the same stuff off the same teleprompter that he's been saying for months about taxing the rich more, protecting the middle class from the very deal he made to protect them before and let's talk about spending cuts next year maybe perhaps. Air Force One costs about $181,000 per flight hour. Much cheaper to send a DVD up there. But that wouldn't get Obama video clips on cable TV this afternoon and evening, which he thinks puts PR pressure on Republicans to cave on higher tax rates before el presidente takes his three-week Hawaiian vacation. In other words, four years after Obama so sincerely promised to change the harsh, noisome ways Washington does -- and doesn't -- do business, he hasn't really changed anything. However, buried deep in a new CNN/ORC International poll this week sits a hopeful statistical inkling that more Americans are now figuring this machine pol out. Too late to avoid extending the White House lease for Obama's family and mother-in-law. But encouraging nonetheless. Question: "Do you think the country will be better off or worse off four years from now?" A pretty simple measure of Americans' expectations. Results show the country's expectations about an Obama presidency have changed dramatically in these past 48 months -- and not for the better. Answer: Four years ago the question found an impressive 76% of Americans figured the country would be better off by now. Silly, silly people. Well, now barely half (56%) expect life in America to get better, a drop of 20 points, or 26%. How about people who expect things to stay about the same? Four years ago 4%. Today, only half that. OK then, how about America's pessimists who expect things to get worse? In 2008, only 19% thought that. How right they were, eh? But today, 1,487 days after the United States electorate bought Obama's Hope and Change bill of goods, the percentage expecting worse things before he's gone has more than doubled -- to 40% expecting negative change. Doesn't explain why they reelected him. Nothing but ignorance can do that. But it does show they're much more realistic now about what he's going to do this time