Public Support Of Stimulus Dropping

Hot Air:

Turns out Americans don't like it when they drop $800 billion to keep people working and unemployment continues to rise.

It's your economy now, champ.

Overall, 52 percent now say the stimulus package has or will succeed in restoring the economy, down from 59 percent two months ago. The falloff in confidence in the stimulus package has been sharpest in the hard-hit Midwest, where fewer than half now see the government spending as succeeding. In April, six in 10 Midwesterners said the big, federal program had already worked or eventually would do so.

The shift in public assessments has clear political ramifications: At the 100-day mark of Obama's presidency, 63 percent of people in states that were decided by fewer than 10 points in November said the stimulus had or would boost the economy. Today, in the telephone poll of 1,001 Americans conducted Thursday through Sunday, that number has plummeted to 50 percent in those closely-contested states, with 47 percent saying it won't help the national economy.

Kinda sucks when reality intrudes on hope-n-change, doesn't it?

There's my two cents.