According to the survey, more Americans hold the Republicans responsible than the Democrats, with 44 percent blaming the GOP and 35 percent picking the Democrats.
"And when George W. Bush's name is added to the mix, the number who blame the Republicans rises to 53 percent, with just a third saying that Barack Obama and his party are at fault. That indicates why the Democrats are likely to mention Bush's name every chance they get between now and election day," Holland said.
But according to numbers released Friday, just four in 10 Americans say they approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing on the economy. The 40 percent who give Obama a thumbs up is a new low for the president on the economy in CNN polling.
Add these results to the Newsweek poll showing Americans would much rather have more federal spending to create jobs than deficit reduction measures, and it's clear that Americans generally believe the Obama administration needs to spend more to fix the Republican economic mess. In other words, the conventional wisdom is that voters 1) blame the president for economy, and 2) they don't want him to spend more money to fix it. Wrong. In fact, the exact opposite is true.
The old media -- wrong again.
Now someone tell the conservadems and Blue Dogs who will surely try to kill any effort to pass another stimulus.