Watch Sean Hannity last night breathlessly report on the latest Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll:



In the second portion of the above video, Hannity claimed that the poll “indicat[ed] that 79% of you think the economy could collapse throughout the Obama administration.” [Emphasis added]

But the poll didn't specifically ask whether people thought the economy would collapse during the Obama administration. The question and possible answers read as follows:

Do you think it's possible the nation's economy could collapse or is the nation's economy so big and strong that it could never collapse?

SCALE: 1. Yes, economy could collapse 2. No, economy could never collapse 3. (Don't know)

Using the question to suggest that it has anything to do with Obama doesn't make any sense, since the question gives respondents the choice between: the economy could never collapse and the economy could collapse sometime between now and forever.

I don't think it's a stretch to assume that economists who don't think the economy will collapse in the near future would generally agree that the economy might collapse at some point before the end of time.

Or maybe Hannity just thinks that the length of the Obama administration and the time we have left before the end of days are one in the same.