Middle class thinks Romney would help the rich while Obama would help the poor and middle class

The reality of Mitt Romney's favoritism toward the top 0.1 percent appears to be getting through to people.

When the middle-class people surveyed by the Pew Research Center were asked who would be helped by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's policies, the thing that came through loudest and clearest is that Mitt Romney will help the rich. A whopping 71 percent thought that (correctly!). Following that up, 62 percent believe President Obama's policies would help poor people and 52 percent thought Obama would help middle-class people. By comparison, just 42 percent think Romney's policies would help the middle class'barely more than think Obama's policies help the rich (38 percent). It's a pretty stark visual comparison, with the bar representing the wealthy absolutely dominating the middle class and poor people on Romney's side.

Republicans will be pretty happy to have middle-class people most likely to think Obama's policies will help the poor'that's fodder for Republican divide-and-conquer tactics'but again, 71 percent see that Mitt Romney wants to help the rich.

As for where we are now, Congress is most likely to be seen as the culprit for the bad economy, followed by banks and financial institutions, then large corporations. This can be accurate by the logic that Congress should have reined in the banks and large corporations and kept them from doing the economic damage they've done'of the three categories, Congress is the only one that should have done better. And while Republicans keep hoping that people will have forgotten about George W. Bush's role in the recession, that doesn't seem to be the case. Bush is 10 points ahead of President Obama on being blamed "a lot" and eight points behind Obama on being blamed "not at all."

So there's plenty of bad news for Republicans here. But I'm sure Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers are taking out their checkbooks right now to make it all better.