Public Trusts Obama & Dems More Than GOP On Economy

This is from a new Gallup Poll -- done between April 9th and 12th of a random national sample of 1,015 adults, with a 4 point margin of error. The chart shows that people trust the president more than anyone else to do the right thing to fix the economy (with a 12 point edge over Republican leaders). Other Democratic leaders also are trusted more than the Republicans (by a 6 point margin). Those are significant margins, being more than the poll's margin of error.

The public seems to understand that it was the Republicans that trashed the economy -- resulting in stagnant worker wages, a shrinking middle class, millions of unemployed people, and a wealth/income gap between the rich and the rest that is larger than at any time since before the Great Depression (and is still growing).

And to make things even worse, the Republican solution to our economic woes is just more of the same economic policy that caused the mess in the first place -- more deregulation of financial industry, more tax cuts for the rich and the corporations, more offshoring of good American jobs, and significant cuts to the programs that help hurting Americans.

It has become obvious that the Republicans have no solution to fix the economy, and they know it. But it doesn't matter to them, because they long ago sold out to the rich and the corporations -- and those are the only entities that they care about. They will obstruct any attempt to create a fair and prosperous economy -- and that is why they must be voted out of power in 2016.