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After Less Than A Week In Office, Barack Obama's Approval Rating Plunges 15 points
Daily Telegraph ^ | January 26, 2009

Posted on 01/25/2009 9:09:31 PM PST by Steelfish

After less than a week in office, Barack Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points

By DAVID GARDNER 26th January 2009

Barack Obama might have been in office for less than a week, but the euphoria is beginning to wane. The new President's approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest - although still impressive - 68 per cent.

Washington analysts said the scale of the drop in the Gallup poll underlines the immense challenges Mr Obama faces in trying to turn round the U.S.'s battered fortunes. He still remains vastly more popular than his predecessor George Bush - who left office with around 25 per cent approval.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: 111th; 2009polls; bho44; bhojobapproval
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To: T Lady

“You mean the bloom is off the rose?”

More like the vent fan broke in the bathroom.


21 posted on 01/25/2009 9:28:26 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

ROTFLMBO!!!!!


22 posted on 01/25/2009 9:29:18 PM PST by T Lady (The MSM: Pravda West)
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To: Steelfish

after the protectionism (even advocated here on this forum),

and the depression,

and a world war,

obama’s rating will drop even more.


23 posted on 01/25/2009 9:30:23 PM PST by ken21
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To: blackbart.223

It matters to me. I want to see him have a seizure on TV. Right in the middle of one of his fake rants, he starts foaming at the mouth and flopping around on the floor. I guarantee 50 million hits on Youtube.


24 posted on 01/25/2009 9:32:17 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Steelfish
15% fall in 5 days? This dude is a media fraud joke.


25 posted on 01/25/2009 9:33:38 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: Steelfish
He still remains vastly more popular than his predecessor George Bush - who left office with around 25 per cent approval.

Wrong. The last Gallup poll before Bush left office had him in the mid 30s.

26 posted on 01/25/2009 9:34:55 PM PST by Hugin (GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
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To: Steelfish

Just wait until the February mortgage and car payments come due and Obama hasn’t sent the check yet.


27 posted on 01/25/2009 9:36:04 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Confidential to MSM: "Better Red than Read" is a failed business model.)
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To: pepsionice

The Dallas ISD underestimated its costs by $81 million dollars and had to let a lot of old and new teachers go. Managerial incompetance is widespread in American education, high and low. Now Obama are going to reward it.


28 posted on 01/25/2009 9:37:04 PM PST by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: Steelfish
He still remains vastly more popular than his predecessor George Bush - who left office with around 25 per cent approval.

Obama will leave office with an approval rating even lower than that. Probably much lower.

29 posted on 01/25/2009 9:39:02 PM PST by sourcery (Nothing should ever be considered true beyond reasonable doubt until the MSM officially denies it.)
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To: ozzymandus
"It matters to me. I want to see him have a seizure on TV. Right in the middle of one of his fake rants, he starts foaming at the mouth and flopping around on the floor. I guarantee 50 million hits on Youtube."

Why would you want to give him the ratings? At this point he has six or seven people who view him with any regularity. I'm not one of them.

30 posted on 01/25/2009 9:41:51 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Steelfish

I guess white male construction workers don’t like being shoved under the bus...


31 posted on 01/25/2009 9:43:27 PM PST by sailor4321
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To: blackbart.223

You’re not following me. I want to see him stroke out. Who cares what his ratings are if he croaks?


32 posted on 01/25/2009 9:47:59 PM PST by ozzymandus
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pssst....dont look now, but rasmussen has him down to 60 percent....next stop, 55


33 posted on 01/25/2009 9:48:10 PM PST by basalt
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To: RobbyS

Yes,....but look at the high quality of their product..../s!


34 posted on 01/25/2009 9:48:17 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: sailor4321
"I guess white male construction workers don’t like being shoved under the bus..."

We build things people want and need. Piss ants like Robert Reich(I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and Obama destroy what we do.

35 posted on 01/25/2009 9:52:23 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
You’ll never see a headline like that in the U.S. MSM.

Right. You see the headline on FR and think, "Must be a UK paper." Sure enough, it is.

On the other hand, it is child's play to find Bush's approval ratings plunging like crazy in MSM headlines.

Approval ratings plunge for Bush...

36 posted on 01/25/2009 9:55:27 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: ozzymandus
"Who cares what his ratings are if he croaks?"

Easy there. It would be better to see him in a Straight jacket.

37 posted on 01/25/2009 9:56:41 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Rebelbase

What an excellent analogy...


38 posted on 01/25/2009 9:59:50 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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To: Steelfish
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39 posted on 01/25/2009 10:05:37 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: blackbart.223

Yeah, but he already needs to be in a straightjacket, and he’s not.


40 posted on 01/25/2009 10:07:23 PM PST by ozzymandus
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