Posted on 09/01/2009 12:44:55 PM PDT by pissant
The President is slipping down a slick slope in public approval ratings. A new Rasmussen poll shows his public support down by 19 points since the beginning of the year:
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That's the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve while 83% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove.
Why is the public losing confidence so quickly? My set of predominant reasons would differ from most others'. First, he's a piker who's learning on the job and it shows. His stimulus package was not designed to have an immediate effect on the economy and he is not being credited with any improvement as a result. His laissez-faire approach to health care reform has fizzled.
Top that with the fact he's made a number of tactical errors such as reaching out too much and too often to his opponents and they're not listening. But his liberal base is, and it's fuming on a number of fronts, including most recently his decision to increase troops in Afghanistan.
Does that mean he won't win a second term? At this point I would say no. The disheveled GOP has yet to mount a candidate who can beat him. Maybe in a second term Mr. Obama will learn how to lead.
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One of the commenters on the original article described Obama as “the tofu candidtate.” Fitting analogy.
Bonnie "Clueless Bon Bon" Erbe.
He may be an incompetent novice, but he’s our incompetent novice!
Pray for the Tea Party Express
I caught that too. I read that line and said, “WTF”?
Cause the know now that he ios a radical left wing candidate disguised as a "Mr Nice Guy."
His actions show that he is a national socialist with loyalty to foreign nations and religions.
America rejects him as not the image they had elected.
Time for the REAL obama to resign.
At this point I am curious how long White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is going to last.
You mean that running for office didn't give him the required experience for office?
-PJ
Huh? When'd that happen? The left thinks he's a conservative? Is this like some of the battles in ancient Israel where G_d causes the enemy to destroy themselves before the Israelites even roll out of bed. I wish. Maybe we should all send him some waffles; comfort food.
Hence the 81% approval rating among democrats, then, eh?.
Bonnie needs to come up with a better reason than him "reaching out too much and too often to his opponents and they're not listening" for his drop in approval. And a "laissez-faire approach to health care reform"? If his approach to health care reform is "laissez-faire" I'd hate to watch his behavior on an issue he is passionate about.
What??
As in, "I won"?
Or, "Hit back twice as hard"?
Or, "I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking."?
You mean that kind of reaching out???
And when did this "tactical error" occur? Oh, that's right. When he told his opponents, "I won". That's probably why they're not listening!
That's Blue Dog democrats?
But she says his problem is “reaching out” too much,,fer crying out loud.
“.. tactical errors such as reaching out too much and too often to his opponents..”
Huh?
We’re talking the black guy with the big ears. Right?
His problem is that a lot of people have figured out he’s a communist!
Bonnie Babe, you’re just plain reaching too much, not reaching out too much.
Bammie is doing what looked impossible a few months ago - uniting Republicans.
......46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. ......
That happens to be the percentage of voters that elected Bill Clinton
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