Posted on 10/15/2009 12:13:08 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009.
Obama's job approval rating comes in at 49 percent this week. That's down just one percentage point from late September, but it marks a new low approval for the president -- and the first time the Fox News poll has measured his approval below 50 percent.
Moreover, the number of Americans saying they would vote to re-elect President Obama has dropped. If the election were held today the poll finds more voters say they would back someone else in the 2012 election than would back the president.
Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, the latest Fox News poll finds the president's ratings on foreign issues are lower than his overall job ratings. All in all, 49 percent of Americans say they approve of the job President Obama is doing and 45 percent disapprove. His average approval for the term so far is 58 percent.
On Afghanistan, 41 percent of Americans say they approve of the job Obama is doing and 43 percent disapprove. For his handling of Iran, 44 percent approve and 43 percent disapprove. On the president's handling of the economy, voters are almost equally split: 48 percent approve and 49 percent disapprove. On health care, some 42 percent approve of the president's performance and half disapprove, 50 percent.
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Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from October 13 to October 14. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
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He’s slipping into Jimmy Carter territory...
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%.
Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?
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.
“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... :-(
These polls from the previous.
Administration."
The haiku of FAIL.
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.
I expect the MSM to start inventing another Ross Perot anytime now for the same reason.
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.
Explains Obama’s rabid, wild-eyed, snarling demand that ObamaCare and Crap and Tirade be passed NOW!!! He knows he’s finished in 2010.
Haik0:
You are a racist.
We sell missiles to China.
Nothing you can do.
Yes, with third party candidates in both elections.
Give it another 6-12 months.
You forgot your units.
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