American voters are idiots

If you want to know why US voters are always annoyed with the president, here is why. They have the impression that the president actually has the power to fix things for them. The people who voted in column 1 are sadly deluded about how the country and the economy works and just set themselves up for grief. In my opinion, only those who voted for col 3 really know what is going on.

News story on what US voters believe the president has the power to do.[Clink on link to read]

Large majorities of voters believe the president has considerable sway on a range of big issues such as inflation, interest rates, the federal deficit, taxes and more. Fully three-quarters believe the president has at least some influence over health care costs, for example. Sixty-nine percent can see the president making gasoline prices go up or down.

The full poll info is here in this Adobe Acrobat PDF file:
There is a lot of other info in the poll about the 2008 candidates, election issues, consumer confidence, etc.