Media smothered poll brings sobering bad news for Barack Obama: We don’t like him or Congress!

On October 16, the results of a Harris Interactive poll on Barack Obama were quietly posted. Because it was bad news for him, it was released on a Friday afternoon so it could be buried on Saturday and you would miss it.

The report started with some blunt language, “President Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but unfortunately, he is not winning accolades from the American public as his job approval rating continues its downward slide.”

Americans have run out of good will toward Obama. We don’t like what we see in him.

In September we were evenly split (49/51 against him), but in October 2293 adult respondents expressed a clear 45/55 bias against Obama.

Of course Democrats are more supportive than Republicans by 77/14%, but Independents have soured on Obama and side against him 40/60.

Obama has lost the youngest Americans (18 to 32). The group which supported him 66/34 has all but abandoned their hero and now barely supports him 51/49.

Seniors whose support for Obama was unenthusiastic last November at 47% are now fully convinced he’s not the man they want running our country. Seniors are against Obama 39/61%.

A very sobering 84% of Americans see the job performance of the Democrat controlled Congress negatively.

Harris reported the number of Americans who think our country is on the wrong track has continued moving downward. In August those saying “Right track” was 46%. In September the same survey found 42% thought we are on the “Right Track” but by October that group had fallen to just 39%.

While its findings were higher, The Wall Street Journal’s “Right/Wrong Track” at 36/52 isn’t much different.

Those segments are similar to Leno’s Jaywalking. You just know the interviewed are liberals or at least democrat voters. But if you stop to think for a minute, if the population of murderers, rapists, gang bangers and thieves incarcerated across the US could vote, there is no doubt they would favor democrat candidates by near unanimity.

The little one-page cartoon bill had a little ribbon around it, then it was marched from the House to the Senate and then over to the President's desk.

I remember that thing, it seemed so...unhappy. LOL!

I remember when I was 18. I was interested in how the country worked and had a general understanding of the mechanism of government- but when it came time to go to the polls, I knew that there was a lot going on in government that I didn't fully understand. It really bothered me; my feeling at the time was 'should I really be doing this if I don't fully understand what it is that I'm doing?'

I read the sample ballot. It was full of the names of people who I'd never heard of for a dizzying array of offices that I didn't know existed. I was okay with the big national offices, I was sort of prepared to make an intelligent choice there. But I could only make inferences by context about what a County Assessor might do- but which candidate of the several would be the best, and how much damage would picking the wrong one do and how could I know the difference? And what of the State Assembly? And the School Board? And twenty different bond issues?

Does anybody that's young even think like that anymore? Was that unusual even back then?

You probably haven’t heard about this poll either.

http://post.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quizresults.php

Obama and the economy Results
Q. The president’s progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?

Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction. 30%
Fairly well. There’s still a long way to go. 5%
Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping. 63%
Not sure/No opinion. 1%

10936860 votes

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.