Posted on 08/12/2014 11:54:14 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Midterm elections usually end up as referendums on the current President, and sixth-year midterms especially so. Will that be the case in November with Barack Obama? According to a new poll from Marist and McClatchy, yes — and Democrats will not like the outcome. By a ten-point spread, Obama incentivizes voters to go Republican more than Democratic:
President Barack Obama is dragging down his party and hurting the prospects of fellow Democrats as they head into midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
Obama is beset by problems at home and abroad. Just 40 percent of voters approve of the way he’s doing his job, tying his worst mark in three years and the second worst of his presidency.
Just 39 percent approve of the way he’s dealing with the economy and only 33 percent approve of how he’s dealing with foreign policy, the worst of his years in office.
By 42-32 percent, voters say their opinions of Obama make them more likely to vote this fall for a Republican than for a Democrat.
Needless to say, the dramatic cognitive disconnects in Obama’s narrative don’t do much to maintain even the current low confidence in his leadership, let alone repair the damage. While Obama can certainly run the American response from his vacation retreat to the genocide unfolding in real time, his insistence on doing so reinforces the conclusion that the president isn’t taking the ISIS threat seriously.
Most Americans would expect that the sudden epiphany about the genocidal threat posed by ISIS would have a president working overtime. This time, at least, the need to boost confidence in the president’s leadership should have outweighed his legitimate need for some downtime outside the Beltway bubble.
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I’ll never understand a president’s performance “driving” support for the other side. Are these wishy-washy drones so blind that they don’t see the positions held from the beginning?
Now ypu’ve done it. Posts like these make lot’s of folks around here really angry. They want the Republicans to lose. To teach them a lesson or something.
Exactly right.
Yes.
Good. This will block him from finishing his job of destroying this country.
Remain calm, all is well, President Jarrett is firmly in control.
BTW, now that everyone’s paying attention to Robin Williams (R.I.P.), here’s this:
Must be a bunch of racists.
The Independents hold the key to every election in our closely divided politics. They are fed up with the floundering Obama presidency. They need to be encouraged to get out to vote to right the ship of state in Nov.
I agree. We’ve a small clique that would rather Obama win or Putin win than that the American people win by getting rid of Democrats in the next elections cycle.
Two years of R House and Senate and Baraq as POTUS will have the MSM screaming “gridlock” at the top of their lungs.
Should be fun, but only if we dump Boehner and McConnell as our honchos.
Do you get your talking points straight from Mitch & Reince?
…that’s what I was afraid of….
Kentucky may dump McConnell for us……(and that would shake up Boner)
Oh it won’t be gridlock...Didn’t you hear Lamar fresh off his primary Victory.
The old RINO wants amnesty. He’s even crowing about it.
That’s what winning means to alot of the vote for the (r)ino establishment crowd. Despite the fact that they are as much or more of the problem then the Demonrats.
Nonsense.
A vote for Grimes in KY will correctly be seen as a rubberstamp for both BHO and Harry Reid.
I do not. I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Do you?
McConnell, safely re-elected, will make obama’s last two years a living hell. It is astonishing to me that people don’t see this.
Confirmation of all federal judges will slow to a crawl
We will control the appropriations process, with new policy riders on the IRS, EPA and more
We will control the investigation process in both chambers, hurting both Obama and Hillary
That’s just for starters.
The world is burning and Obama is on vacation — a perfect image for his entire Presidency.
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