Rasmussen: Obama strong disapproval at peak

Hot Air ^ | August 30, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

If Barack Obama hoped to gain some breathing room with his vacation, or perhaps even pick up some sympathetic vibe for eulogizing Ted Kennedy on Friday, Rasmussen’s latest poll shows that nothing has changed in the direction of his approval ratings. With one of the three days in Rasmussen’s presidential tracking poll after the wake, Obama has hit his highest level of strong disapproval yet, at 42%. The “passion index” has now hit -10 — not the worst of his term thus far, but certainly not good:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 32% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove. That’s the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President and it gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 …

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That matches the lowest total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.

Support for the health care reform package proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats has stopped falling, but most voters are still opposed.

[library user]

Love it! Fail, Obama, fail!!!!

[digger48]

Rest assured, it's not "peaked" yet.

[Steely Tom]

Wishful thinking.

[Rocko]

It was at -14 last weekend.

[skeeter]

ABCNBCCBS, CNN & MSNBC:

[bray]

Hey Orrin, Shut Your Hatch!

Pray for America

[Frantzie]

Agreed. We have not hit bottom yet. The bottom may be where Teddy is now with that Lucifer guy. Hussein has a way to go.

Hey Barry - the trend “ain’t” your friend.

[moose2004]

He was also at 47% approval last weekend.

[Texas Fossil]

You mean the “three blind mice” plus Commie News Network.

But your photo is very appropriate.

[martin_fierro]

[SierraWasp]

"Hey Orrin, Shut Your Hatch!"

Amen!!! You sure have a way with wurds!!!

[ChildOfThe60s]

32% strongly approve. That should scare the crap out of any rational person. Despotic governments acquire and keep power with a lot less approval.

[Natural Law]

Lincoln said: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all of the time. That is even truer today with the multiple sources of information available to every citizen than it was 150 years ago.

[smoothsailing]

[armymarinemom]

Rasmussen: Obama strong disapproval at peak

Naw. He hasn't reached 70% disapproval yet.

[FrdmLvr]

I don’t like the use of the word “peaked”.

[freekitty]

FAILURE

[NordP]

nicely done!

[Nathan Zachary]

"Obama has hit his highest level of strong disapproval yet, at 42%. The “passion index” has now hit -10 — not the worst of his term thus far, but certainly not good:"

That's all ell and good, but I wouldn't say it's hit it's "peak" yet. Not by a long shot. Obama's got nowhere to go but down.. down ...down- till he meets up with Teddy in hell.