Posted on 04/04/2010 8:15:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How’s that Hopey-Changey working out for you? Two weeks after finally getting his ObamaCare agenda item signed into law, Barack Obama has reaped the reward of pushing a deeply unpopular bill through Congress. A new CBS poll shows Obama dropping to his lowest approval rating in their survey yet, down to 44% (via JWF):
Last week, President Obama signed historic health care reform legislation into law — but his legislative success doesn’t seem to have helped his image with the American public.
The latest CBS News Poll, conducted between March 29 and April 1, found Americans unhappier than ever with Mr. Obama’s handling of health care – and still worried about the state of the economy.
President Obama’s overall job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 44 percent, down five points from late March, just before the health bill’s passage in the House of Representatives. It’s down 24 points since his all-time high last April. Forty-one percent of those polled said they disapproved of the president’s performance.
CBS hasn’t released the raw data yet on the poll. They want to wait until tonight’s news broadcast to unveil some of the other results from the poll. That can’t be good news for the White House, since the big hit on the approval rating will very obviously be their lead on the story. We do know, however, that this poll surveyed the general adult population, not registered or likely voters, a sample that should have been more sympathetic to Obama.
Two issue approval ratings did get released this morning, and both show even worse approval ratings for Obama on key issues. He hit a new low on health care, with only 34% approving of his job performance. Small wonder Obama has taken to campaigning again for health care; he’s getting buried by it. Obama might do better to change the subject, but the next most pressing issue is another which Americans don’t like the job he’s doing. He only gets 42% approval on the economy, sinking closer to his all-time low of 41% in January.
A drop of five points since the bill passed should show Republicans that the best way to win the next two elections is to promise to repeal ObamaCare. For Obama, the best strategy might be to quit talking about it and start looking for ways to really rebuild the economy rather than indulge himself in progressive agenda wish lists for government programs, which have done nothing so far except delay the recovery.
Bush’s fault.
Hope and change? How about the “Dope in charge”?
This president apparently does not care what Americans need, think or want. His Marxist agenda is more important than solving the 17% unemployment problem.
Obama is a walking sack of muslim crap.
There is absolutely nothing American about him.
He hates everything that our great Country is supposed to be.
I've got 4 words for him........
FUBO
That high, huh?
44% of Americans are still too stupid to function.
He doesn’t care! All he wants is to further advance the Marxist agenda here in the USA. If he is a one termer so be it. He will have served his tutors and masters well, Soros, Ayres, Wright all will be pleased and the irreparable damage done by incrementalism will be in place.
You, sir, have nailed it down perfectly.
Ohhhh buddy, do not underestimate the power of the farce in this one!
Let him get his majority gutted in the mid terms and be facing two years of lame duck and I wager ten bucks that "we ain't heard nuthin yet."
The Kenyan’s polls have collapsed with Independent voters and Senior citizens as well as White democrats in the swing states.
His only supporters are blacks and poor white single women who want their free Obama care as soon as possible. And they are going to be disillusioned very soon when they find out the freebies don’t start for another 4 years.
I find it so comforting to think that only four out of every ten people I meet on the street is a complete moron.
“His only supporters are blacks and poor white single women”
I think you may be right. At the last rally I attended outside our reps office against passage of Obamamcare, we got lots of honks and thumbs up from passing motorists. The only negatives were from two 20-something white women, who gave us the finger as they drove by.
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