I wish it were true.
I hate to quote a diptard, but here it is...
Posted on 06/05/2013 8:18:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At first, Democrats were quick to claim that the scandals erupting over the last month were just flashes in the pan. When that proved to just be wish-casting, the meme changed to the dangers of Republican overreach. According to a new poll from a series normally friendly to the White House, that meme will soon disappear, too. Solid majorities in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll say that the scandals raise doubts about the integrity of the Obama administration — although they’re not impacting Barack Obama himself, at least not on job approval.
The Hill provides a good analysis of the data:
A new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concerns about the “honesty” of the Obama administration, even as the president maintains his approval rating.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released late Tuesday shows 55 percent believe the IRS targeting of conservative groups raised questions about the administration’s “overall honesty and integrity.”
Benghazi may have been a long time ago according to Jay Carney, but not to poll respondents:
Fifty-eight percent say the administration’s handling of the Benghazi Consulate attack also raises questions about the honesty of the White House. The same number say the Justice Department’s subpoenaing of reporter email and phone records in national security leak investigations also raises concerns.
However, the news for Obama himself is somewhat better, at least on the surface. He has the same 48/47 job approval rating that he did in April, and only 33% are putting significant responsibility for the IRS scandal on his shoulders (and only 12% “total responsibility”). Obama supporters will offer those data points to show that the scandals aren’t impacting his political power.
They’d better not get too married to that argument, either. Obama’s ratings have seriously soured among independents, where his job approval has dropped significantly — and so have his ratings on integrity:
Mr. Obama is holding firm despite a steady decline in support among independent voters. The new poll found 59% of independents disapproving of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, compared with the 28% who approved. That represents a steep slide since January, when 52% of independents disapproved of Mr. Obama, with 41% approving. …
For example, in January, 45% of self-described independents gave Mr. Obama high marks for being “honest and straightforward.” In the latest poll, that number shrank to 27%.
It’s not just independents on sub-categories, either. He’s dropped in several leadership quality ratings since January:
The only significant increase came in likability, which went from 61% to 67%, and which looks like the final refuge of Obama’s overall approval rating. As these scandals continue — and if they expand into other scandals — Obama won’t be able to keep his overall rating up on the basis of likability alone.
Addendum: Also worth noting is that the generic Congressional ballot has Democrats at a +3 over the GOP, which isn’t much of a change over the past year and is within the margin of error of the poll. It’s ranged from D+5 to D+1 since summer of 2012.
Benghazi.....either Obama had Amb. Stevens giving WEAPONS to the SYRIANS, or maybe even other WORSE people, OR he was kidnapped so as to trade the BLIND SHEIK for our Amb.!! Which one is it....or MAYBE IT”S BOTH!!!
Likability my ass. Satan comes with a big SMILE, so as to disarm his opponents.
He’s black so we like him. Get with the program.
Good data here.
Wish there was a way to move all the independents to one state... like Guam.
The guy's a loser, but no one wants to talk about it.
Integrity? obama doesn’t know the meaning of the word. He also doesn’t know what morality, justice, and ethics mean. He is a corrupt egomaniac who believes being president means forcing his will on the people.
He makes Nixon look like a Saint.
Everybody knows that Comrade Stalin had nothing to do with the crimes and atrocities committed against his own citizens. It was all the fault of his underlings, who kept the truth from him. If only we can talk to him, then he will make things right again.
Or so they said...
The phenomenon of approving of Obama and disapproving of his administration is slowly turning me into a constitutional monarchist: the modern argument for monarchy (on the model of Britain) is that the people lodge their affections with the monarch as a symbol of the country, and are thus free to vote on the basis of policy for the actual government. No one needed to like Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair to vote Tory in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s or for “new” Labour in the ‘90’s, they just needed to think their policies were for better than the opposing party.
Obama voters want Obama to be king, not in the sense of autocrat (though some of them may want that, too) but in the sense Her Britannic Majesty is queen: the symbol of the country, who gives inspiring speeches, shows up to dedicate newly opened projects built by the national government, and the like. (Cuz he’s cool, black, hip, whatever...)
“Scandals raising doubts among majorities about Obama WH integrity”
Really!?
What a dumb survey!
If ‘minorities’ didn’t give a f^%$ about “O’s” integrity while he was running for office, and during his first term... why would they care NOW?
Of course, this is assuming that they even comprehend ‘integrity’... and that is highly problematic!
I love to talk about what a loser fag our non-president is. I talk about it all the time. Hell, the homo has a Wookie for a wife, sits in an office which by law he cannot hold, and throws a baseball like a schoolgirl.
You have to admit, that's about as "loser" as it gets. Everybody talkabout...
;-\
LOL!
Yeah...he even mentioned this in his fake autobiography....
that's why he does all those "goofy" things.....so people think he is some sort of a nice fuzzy guy.
[[WSJ/NBC poll: Scandals raising doubts among majorities about Dear leader’s WH integrity]]
Wow- it took 4 years ofl ies and innaction, and blaming others, Attackign Christians, Attackign the Supreme court, Attackign the copnstitution, attackign our second aamendment rights, shoving obummercare down our throats UNCONSTITUTIONALLY with hte help of a corrupt traitorous john roberts, attackign big busiensses, and massive anti-Aemrican scandals to get peopel to ‘think’ there might be soem quesiton abotu dear leader’s integrity? Good golly- if it had been a republican i nthe white house, it woudl have only taken one minor incident for hte peopel to turn on him ior her
LIVs are afraid of being called racists so when the pollsters ask whether they like him, they say “yes.”
“f ‘minorities’ didn’t give a f^%$ about “O’s” integrity while he was running for office, and during his first term... why would they care NOW?
Of course, this is assuming that they even comprehend ‘integrity’... and that is highly problematic!”
This is the money post of this thread! Blacks and “Browns” just look down at their arm, then look at Obama, and pull the handle for him. They are a National “OJ” Jury!
What Obama benefits from is the medias refusal to link him to any of this. The low informant voter says how bad it is but doesn’t equate Obama with it.
I wish it were true.
I hate to quote a diptard, but here it is...
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