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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.

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To: Hugin

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113770/Bush-Presidency-Closes-34-Approval-61-Disapproval.aspx

You’re right - it was 34%, not the 25% the author wrote about/made up.


41 posted on 01/25/2009 10:07:58 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Steelfish

His ratings never were 83% unless they polled the newsrooms?

Pray for America


42 posted on 01/25/2009 10:13:06 PM PST by bray (Time to organize a Rebel Republican Party around Palin)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think you’ve got that backwards -

Let them issue their own standards. Those states silly enough to go on some whackjob tangent will suffer accordingly. Let the most sensible win.

Why should the Federal Government be in that air standards business anyway ?


43 posted on 01/25/2009 10:18:42 PM PST by buwaya
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To: ozzymandus
"Yeah, but he already needs to be in a straightjacket, and he’s not."

In the big picture Olberman is a pimple who isn't fit to lick my shoe sole. Why waste your time on him?

44 posted on 01/25/2009 10:20:57 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Steelfish

and it will keep going down. That is my prediction.


45 posted on 01/25/2009 10:28:23 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: blackbart.223

I just seem to enjoy hating him. He doesn’t even seem to realize that even the leftards who watch him know he’s nuts. He was the same as a sportscaster, even the other sportscasters laughed at him to his face and he didn’t get it. He’s the perfect example of liberal cluelessness.


46 posted on 01/25/2009 10:38:59 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: ozzymandus
"I just seem to enjoy hating him."

I can't fault you for that. For myself I find hate a dangerous emotion that can cloud my judgement. I try not to indulge in it when possible.

47 posted on 01/25/2009 10:45:22 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: blackbart.223

I don’t think anything could cloud my judgement of KO.


48 posted on 01/25/2009 10:55:22 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: pepsionice
This is the harsh reality of being a president today. The media is not your friend.

Well, that all despends on...

49 posted on 01/25/2009 10:55:32 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: ozzymandus
"I don’t think anything could cloud my judgement of KO."

He is a jerk. No question. Juat don't lower yourself to his level. We are better than him.

50 posted on 01/25/2009 10:59:39 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Army Air Corps

83% of Americans were euphoric about the least experienced presidential candidate in the last 150 years? We’re talking certifiably insane here, if true.


51 posted on 01/25/2009 11:11:01 PM PST by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: Plutarch

It will be nice to be able to compare the press’s bias between Bush and Obama. The full Bush Presidency is in articles available on the web.


52 posted on 01/25/2009 11:12:34 PM PST by Textide
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To: Steelfish

let’s see it sink more.


53 posted on 01/25/2009 11:54:18 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Steelfish

The honky-tonk grifter still has the liberal ladies sacked and hypnotized. Wait until the welfare beer money dries up and oprah and the soap operas go digital this month and the gals lose input of the what-not drivel that tells them how to think. There be pots and kettles banging on every street in America.


54 posted on 01/26/2009 4:47:34 AM PST by sergeantdave (Michigan is a bigger mistake than your state.)
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To: sergeantdave
Posted on FR Sunday, January 25, 2009 | Scott Rasmussen Daily Presidential Approval Index (Obama: Approve 60% Disapprove 36%)
55 posted on 01/26/2009 5:28:18 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dissent is patriotic - Hussein is not and will never be my president.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Good news!


56 posted on 01/26/2009 5:31:24 AM PST by Cheryllynn
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To: basalt

If he goes below 50%, they will no longer publish it. The Wizard behind the curtain has spoken.


57 posted on 01/26/2009 7:48:50 AM PST by ponygirl (I am opposed to Communists of any color.)
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