Obama to become most unpopular president EVER so early in his presidency?

Vanity ^ | 7-30-09 | Dangus

[dangus]

In 1993, Bill Clinton’s approval ratings sank to 37%, according to a Gallup poll at the time. Yet he was re-elected. Does this mean that Obama can survive his own sinking approval ratings? Maybe not.

The low approval ratings of President Clinton were partly due to an American public withholding judgment on his presidency. Unlike President Obama, Clinton had been elected with a mere plurality (43%) of the vote. Clinton’s disapproval ratings peaked at 49%. In 1996, he was again elected with a mere plurality (49%) of the vote.

In 1994, the Republican party swept into power, gaining 52 house seats and ten senate seats. Certainly, anger at President Clinton’s liberalism helped motivate many Republican voters. Yet Clinton had already recovered his approval rating to 49%. Most generic Congressional preference polls failed to detect a Republican-voting majority. The opposition to Obama is much sharper. Fully 40% of Americans strongly disapprove of Obama’s performance in office, according to the latest Rasmussen poll; although the Rasmussen poll did not exist in 1993, this is likely considerably higher than President Clinton ever would have achieved.

This polling data points to a possible Republican tsunami. That may not be good for conservatives. The Republicans hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs, and need to gain 11 more, for an historic 27 wins. For the Republicans to recapture the Senate, they’d have to win in states as profoundly liberal as New York, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii and Delaware. The winners would likely include many “moderates” who would vote with the Democrats on most contentious issues. Conservatives might be better to have 43 conservative Republicans, 5 Democrat-voting Republicans and 52 Democrats in the Senate than to have 43 conservative Republicans, 10 Democrat-voting Republicans and 47 Democrats in the Senate. If the country is to be controlled by liberals, isn’t it better that Democrats take the blame?

Barring a surprise such as a sudden, sharp reversal in the rising unemployment rate, the Republicans will gain plenty of seats to block a Democratic agenda; they only need 40 in the Senate. Conservatives would be wise focusing on winning primary elections and contributing to true conservatives than supporting candidates who are merely “the lesser of two evils.”

[HiramQuick]

I would love to see a whole S—tpot of RINO congress critters replaced by conservatives. Democrats are what they are .. and it would be nice to unseat them as well.

JUST DON”T do it with MODERATE Republicans or NOTHING changes.

Lets see the senate side (not knowing election cycle on each), hagel, Graham cracker, grassley, hutchinsoooon, snow, collins, mcLame, crist, arly sepectator .. oops he is a socialist that realized he could not even be reelected as a liberal republican in a liberal state .... you get the idea ..honk me a lugar and martinzez and the list goes on ..... all are worthless and all need to go.

[gidget7]

Sadly we know that too. A lot of realize what is going on, and how. ACORN, for the most part, the soldiers for it, are right off the streets of the large cities, and none of them will ever be allowed into most homes in America. Especially to collect answers that is none of their business or the govt’s.

[dangus]

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[dangus]

Limbaugh, everybody Limbaugh!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[tjja98]

I think what is most alarming for Obama and Democrat’s is that he won the marjority of Independent votes getting elected and now a very large majority of Independents strongly disapprove of him. He’s doomed.