Pelosi: The meltdown
cuckoo:
Posted on 07/30/2009 10:00:29 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71
There are several new polls out over the past 24 hours that show more problems for President Obama. The trend lines are consistent: declining support for his health-care plan, rising worries about the deficit and slippage in his approval ratings. But what if the polls are wrong?
Not wrong in the sense that they have incorrectly charted a downward slope for the president after six months in office, but wrong in the sense that they don't entirely capture the dynamic of this moment in the Obama presidency.
I raise that question after spending Wednesday night in Towson observing a focus group conducted by pollster Peter Hart for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hart assembled 12 independent voters -- seven who supported Obama in November, four who backed John McCain and one who voted for Ralph Nader. The two-hour session was eye-opening for Hart and a group of journalists.
The most arresting moment came when Hart asked everyone to recall how they felt on election night. It was as if the room was transported back to Chicago's Grant Park for the celebration of Obama's victory.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Whoa... An astounding twelve voters were assembled for this focus group? All in one place?? And one out of every three of them was a McCain voter? This sounds like something you can really hang your hat on. Case closed.
The country has gone too far down the socialist path for the Washington Post to let it stop now. Democracy? Once the left is in charge and the press is a ward of the state, voters don’t matter anymore.
What to glean from these Delphi sessions? That Obama’s policies are hated so much IN SPITE of the fact that people WANT to be able to like him. That means that Obama will have the capacity to pull a 1996 Bill Clinton in 2012, but it should also tell the Democratic congressmen that Obama’s policies are much more hated than his 50-50 approval ratings indicate.
e) play golf permanently
Best WaPo Comment so far...
kurttai wrote:
Gee Dan when WAPO goes bankrupt you have a future as the new Oprah from Capitol Hill!! Does the slobbering never end with you? My god.. get some journalistic backbone and say what you and the sycophants at WAPO said when Bushes’ poll numbers tanked...I guess nobody in MSM dare say “The One” is a fake and a liar..oh yea...nobody cares what the MSM says anymore... Is it hard to write on your knees so much Dan “Lewinsky”?
Yes they do..same as Bill Clinton's poll numbers added up to the Dems losing control of the House for the first time in over 40 years, back in 1994.
Hey, where was this guy with “polls not adding up to the whole story” sob pieces when the WaPo continued to hammer President Bush non-stop for over 6 years on his “bad” poll numbers?
Contrast this to a July, 2001 article about Bush’s higher-than-Obama approvals!!
07/02/2001 - Updated 10:06 PM ET
Bush approval rating down 10 points since April
By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A slim majority of Americans believe President Bush is doing a good job in what is the lowest job-approval rating of his presidency, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.
Bush registered a 52% job-approval rating, down from 62% in late April at the 100-day mark. In mid-June, he had 55% job-approval.
Enactment of a major tax cut and pending passage of an education-reform bill gave him no measurable boost. Analysts say he was hurt by stands on energy, defense and environmental issues.
The White House prefers to view the glass as half full, not half empty. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer says that despite a fall from the low 60s after the spy plane incident in China in April, the president’s ratings have been “strong, solid and stable” in the 50%-59% range for two months.
“If he had these kinds of numbers in October of a re-election year he’d be on his way to a smashing victory,” Fleischer says.
However, independent analysts say that unless Bush quickly does something to halt the perception that he is slipping, his ratings could fall lower. “The honeymoon is over and people are looking for results,” says Stephen Wayne, a political scientist at Georgetown University
Oh give me a damn break. They expect us to buy this nonsense? And since when is WAPO supposed to be in the business of using its pages to provide pep talks for Obama?
“Stay strong,” said Raymond Fernandez, a movie theater manager and McCain voter. Why did this person or the other McCain voters bother to vote for Mccain if they were so swept up with the Obamamania?
I myself felt sick to my stomach...
Reporter Balz is one of thoser chinless David Broder - NPR types that consider everything but reality.
(No #1 to reply to, not picking on you)
Spin that thang!
Bet on it. People in general do not like admitting they made the wrong vote or their judgement was somehow wrong. Many will continue to stay with this fraud until the bitter end and when he finally crashes and burns, they will put the blame on other people as the cause.
There are none so Blind as those who do not see.
Complete and total Morons
In that case Hope - it’s what’s for dinner.
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