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.
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“You mean the bloom is off the rose?”
More like the vent fan broke in the bathroom.
ROTFLMBO!!!!!
after the protectionism (even advocated here on this forum),
and the depression,
and a world war,
obama’s rating will drop even more.
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.
Wrong. The last Gallup poll before Bush left office had him in the mid 30s.
Just wait until the February mortgage and car payments come due and Obama hasn’t sent the check yet.
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.
Obama will leave office with an approval rating even lower than that. Probably much lower.
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.
I guess white male construction workers don’t like being shoved under the bus...
You’re not following me. I want to see him stroke out. Who cares what his ratings are if he croaks?
pssst....dont look now, but rasmussen has him down to 60 percent....next stop, 55
Yes,....but look at the high quality of their product..../s!
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.
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.
Easy there. It would be better to see him in a Straight jacket.
What an excellent analogy...
Yeah, but he already needs to be in a straightjacket, and he’s not.
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