The Answer Is Yes

BooMan asks a question:

I wonder what Obama's approval rating would be if his policies had done a lot more to create jobs and lesson the foreclosure crisis but the cost had been a slumping Dow Jones index. If, just theoretically, the unemployment rate was below 8% and gads of people had had the principal on their mortgages written down, but the Dow was at 6,000, would Obama be more popular?

I daresay Fox News and the WSJ would be screaming about rampaging socialism and corporations would be funding and whomping up phony grassroots campaigns of racist ignoramuses freaking out about Democrat Islamofascist Stalinist Gulags for Real Murcans -- which would of course be so very different from what we have got instead by sucking yummy corporate-militarist old white man vampire cock all year instead -- but otherwise more people would be less fucked over and the lie of the Dow Jones arrow as anything but a White Collar Criminal Daily Reported Satisfaction Index would be exposed for good (in more ways than one). But, of course, the Congressional millionaires who "represent" the hundreds of millions of non-millionaires who elect them quite simply wouldn't have anything like that, nor frankly would Obama himself, nor even the best of the folks working in his Administration, let alone the neoliberal/neocon Zombie Army he has on the payroll, so, then, the answer is Yes, but only Not On This Actual Planet.