Obama job approval drops to 49% in latest Fox News poll. Only 43% would vote to re-elect him today.

Fox News ^ | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Fox News.com

[OldDeckHand]

43%, that's going to leave a mark. The Independents are running for the exits. That has to frighten the unholy trinity of Barry/Rahm/Axeldork.

[RockinRight]

He’s slipping into Jimmy Carter territory...

[avacado]

We are still fighting a rising tide of people who want free stuff. Add in 20 million illegals as citizens and the Founding Fathers’ ideal of limited government and individualism will be something the ruling majority will laugh at. We are already considered extremist for quoting the Constitution or the Founding Fathers.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

43% = 18% + 25%. That 25% is 30% of the 82% that aren’t the 18%.

70% of the 82% that aren’t the 18% would not vote for 0.

70%.

[John.Galt2012]

43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today

That's 43% of those who voted to elect him in the first place...right? /s

[Logical me]

Only the ignorant would vote for that communists pig again.

[PeterPrinciple]

Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?

[Recovering_Democrat]

He undoubtedly sucks more than any President in modern times. The absolute worst since the beginning of the 1900s.

Worse than Taft.
Worse than FDR.
Worse than LBJ.
Worse than Nixon.
Worse than Carter.

[DrC]

“That has to frighten the unholy trinity of Barry/Rahm/Axeldork.”

My fear is that poll numbers like these are going to amplify efforts to get health care reform either because a) they know that in light of these poll numbers, Obama won’t have a second shot at this issue; or b) they foolishly believe the public’s lukewarm support is because the president hasn’t ACCOMPLISHED anything, so once health reform is enacted, his poll numbers will rise... :-(

[clintonh8r]

"I inherited.

These polls from the previous.

Administration."

The haiku of FAIL.

[OldDeckHand]

'Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?"

Two words - Ross Perot. If it wasn't for Perot and his 19% of the vote, there's a decent chance that Clinton wouldn't have won. Absent some other third-party billionaire, 43% just ain't going to get it done for Barry in 2012.

[Zathras]

I expect the MSM to start inventing another Ross Perot anytime now for the same reason.

[OldDeckHand]

"My fear is that poll numbers like these are going to amplify efforts to get health care reform"

I've said this before, but I think that they've already resigned themselves to the fact that they're going to lose the House next year. Plus, it doesn't bode well for them in the Senate that their Leader is in the political battle of his tenure, just to keep his job.

I saw that speech to the Joint Session as the big middle finger to the GOP. That was Obama saying - not so subtly - to the left side of the chamber, "It's either now or never, because you fools are all about to lose your jobs next year". I thought then, and I think now, that they'll ram something through sooner, rather than later.

[pabianice]

Explains Obama’s rabid, wild-eyed, snarling demand that ObamaCare and Crap and Tirade be passed NOW!!! He knows he’s finished in 2010.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Haik0:

You are a racist.
We sell missiles to China.
Nothing you can do.

[GVnana]

Yes, with third party candidates in both elections.

[SeekAndFind]

43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today

Again, did the key questions --- are these LIKELY voters they are polling or registered voters? How many percent Republican, Democrat and Independent was in their sample size?

[TheDailyChange]

Give it another 6-12 months.

[sam_paine]

You forgot your units.