And this comes as a surprise to whom? Browns supports know that as PRODUCERS they will taxed more and more to support the hacks and layabouts. Granny Warren's supporters are all excited about the prospect of more being given to them. Those cost-of-living adjustments to welfare and ssi are simply not keeping them in the style to which they are accustomed....

Globe says"Voters have historically made their political decisions based largely on their feelings about their economic prospects. What we see now is just the opposite: people deciding what to think about the economy based on their political beliefs," Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, said in an interview Friday" ---This guy is MAKING THINGS UP with this statement. It all depends on HOW the polling question is framed. What makes perfect sense here, is that what was true HISTORICALLY, is STILL true. And if it is NOT, then its because of the HEAVILY BIASED news media, which will NEVER tell you, with true facts and figures how really bad the US economy is. And they will not tell you that the US government is actually BANKRUPT. Just like Spain, italy, and Greece. And for the SAME REASONS----And besides that why should ANYONE believe a Boston Globe poll? --The Globe NEVER tells you about the FAR GREATER number of UNPUBLISHED POLLS. (I am sure that you know that the Obama campaign is spending MILLIONS on DAILY UNPUBLISHED POLLS and Focus Groups. That's why there are new Obama $35K FUNDRAISERS every day) ---But if the Globe (also the AP, Reuters, etc) doesn't like the polls's results, it DOESN'T PUBLISH the results. ---And, here's something to remember; ANY Globe opinion poll, or Globe publication of another's poll, is NOT really an "Opinion" Poll. It's an OPINION PIECE, that is disguised as an Opinion Poll.--It's really an Editor's OPINION, just like the Globe's "News articles" are all Opinions, in fact.

What the poll shows is a correlation between political affiliation and economic outlook - Democrats tend to have a more positive economic outlook; Republicans a more pessimistic view. What the article lacks is any consideration of which is the cause, and which is the effect. It could well be that Democrats have a more positive economic outlook because they are shielded from the consequences of bad economies. It's well known that certain groups tend to be Democrats - Academics, public sector workers and those at the bottom of the Social Safety net. Those also tend to be the groups that are most insulated from the consequences of a poor economy - "ivory-tower" Academics have tenure; public sector workers have greater job security than public sector workers, and those at the bottom of the Social Safety net bear little risk of substantive benefit cuts for anything but blatant fraud. For those groups, economic problems may be the topic of news stories and TV reports, but they see little impact on their own personal economic situations. Other groups tend to be disproportionately Republican - small business owners and entrepreneurs, for example. And those are the same groups who are most directly affected by problems in the economy. Common sense logic says that whoever interpreted these poll results as "Politics tilts view on Economy" have it exactly backwards. It's not politics that are tilting views on the economy, it's that Economic view have a direct influence on peoples' political affiliation. As has long been an accepted fact. There's absolutely nothing cited in this article that would point to any other conclusion.

"public sector workers have greater job security than private sector workers"