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Do you think the economy will improve once the elections are over?

Poll Results: Do you think the economy will improve once the elections are over?

 
  • 24% (10)
    Yes.
  • 48% (20)
    No.
  • 26% (11)
    I have no idea.
41 Total Votes  
post #1 of 30
8/22/08 at 8:30am
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Do you think the economy will improve once the elections are over?
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post #2 of 30
8/22/08 at 8:32am
Or will the press start reporting on it differently?
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post #3 of 30
8/22/08 at 8:33am
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Originally Posted by melsb View Post

Or will the press start reporting on it differently?

Now that's a great question ... is the economy more about perception that truth?
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post #4 of 30
8/22/08 at 10:41am
i think there are to many variables to tell. the economy is a wait and see kind of thing if you ask me. can the elecetion of the right individual moves things along better sure can but that all remains to be seen.
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post #5 of 30
8/22/08 at 10:44am
Nope, I think the money that they are spending on commercials/ads is helping
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post #6 of 30
8/22/08 at 1:36pm
I think the cost of gas will go right back up as soon as the elections are over. I think that more and more employers are going to feel the fuel cost pinch. Our country revolves around the transportation of goods. If truck drivers can not make a living because they are paying $5+ for diesel, then more and more are going to have to stop driving. Higher fuel means, higher food, higher utilities, higher everything. I can't see Obama or McCain being able to solve the problems that the Bush administration has created. We keep pumping billions and billions of money into Iraq while Iraq sits on an 80 billion dollar budger surplus. They should be paying us to be there, not us paying them! Until this country can stabilize the economy, we need to keep ALL of our money here. So we should not just stop giving money to Iraq, we should stop giving it to African countries that refuse to care for their own poor. Maybe it is a greedy, selfish way to look at it, but there are millions in this country that are only a couple of paychecks from being homeless. We have starving children here, we have AIDS patients here, the only difference is our country does at least try to take care of it's people.

Ok, down off my soap box. If I offended you, sorry, but this is my opinion and as an American citizen I am entitled to have my own opinion even if it offends others.
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post #7 of 30
8/22/08 at 1:39pm
It depends on who wins Actually, nothing will happen right away at any rate. It will take quite awhile to turn the economy back around.
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post #8 of 30
8/22/08 at 7:17pm
I really don't think the economy is as bad as the media tells us. The dollar is now improving and I have not found the price of groceries increasing significantly enough to notice on my receipt. To be honest, I don't think either of the Presidential candidates are in touch with the middle class (us). I think we are screwed whichever one gets elected, and I think people are ignorant to say McCain is the best and Obama sucks; and people are ignorant to say Obama is better than McCain. Both are greedy and have money thrown at them to vote for the big companies. Our founding fathers never wanted the government to be this big and powerful, that is why they left England.
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post #9 of 30
8/22/08 at 7:20pm
I said yes, but only because I am optimistic.

I believe that a large part of economic issues is perception. But I also think prices have obviously rise/dollar obviously fallen.
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post #10 of 30
8/22/08 at 7:38pm
You didn't ask HOW FAR IN THE FUTURE after the elections are over. The economy will most certainly improve - at some point. Will it get worse before it gets better? Maybe. We're certainly going to see a hit to the unemployment rate once soldiers return from deployments. There are a lot of stressors on the worldwide economy right now. I think it is going to take at least 2 or 3 years to recover.
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