55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama?

[OrangeEmpire]

55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama? - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online

The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.
Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”
On “too liberal,” 35 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 21 percent say “well,” 21 percent say “not too well,” and 17 percent say “not well at all.” In other words, 56 percent of likely voters consider Obama too liberal.
When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”
In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.

Sad, I can't believe the number is only 55%......

Thoughts?

 

[volinbham]

The Louisiana Swamp Viper probably flipped when he saw the results of his own poll.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Carville is one of my secret political sins.....I love him to death. On a side note, I get the impression that he really doesn't care for Obama.

 

[volinbham]

Carville is one of my secret political sins.....I love him to death. On a side note, I get the impression that he really doesn't care for Obama.

He's backed off the initial Gulf criticism but you could tell the criticism was heart-felt.

 

[MG1968]

there are those of us who have been calling him a "socialist" since the early part of 2008 but we were dismissed

 

[gsvol]

It would appear that Carville's 40 years of Democrat Party dominance is even going to last 4 years. (Thank God and Greyhound.)

On the Congressional ballot, the bad news continues for Democrats. The GOP wins overall on the question, 46/43, but among likely voters the split goes to six, 48/42. Twenty-six percent said there was “no chance” they would support a Democratic candidate, while 18% said “no chance” about the Republicans.

Americans remain pessimistic about the economy as well. Forty percent believe we have hit bottom and have started to improve. However, 22% say we’ve hit the bottom and are staying there, while 34% think we haven’t hit the bottom yet at all.

Perhaps most problematic, Obama can’t score a majority for any of the positive qualities listed by the pollster in the survey among likely voters. The best he does is a 49% for “hopeful vision” and the same for “strong leader,” both of which are ties. Otherwise, Obama sinks underwater on every other quality mentioned. The “socialist” label reflects that, but even more significantly for the midterm, 61% of likely voters think “big spender” fits well or very well.

66% say he has been ineffective on the oil spill.

The other 34% couldn't be reached because they had on head phones listening to rap.

 

[gsvol]