Poll: Grouchy Public Sticking With Obama (82% don't approve of Obama or 83% of Americas direction)

AOL/AP ^ | 11-11-2009 | LIZ SIDOTI

[IrishMike]

WASHINGTON (Nov. 11) - President Barack Obama still has the public approval of a majority of Americans, but he finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country. This comes at a time when he is trying to revive a struggling economy, weighing more troops for the 8-year-old Afghanistan war, muscling a health care reform overhaul through Congress and hoping to push through other ambitious measures like legislation focused on climate change. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Americans grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, continuing the slippage that has occurred since Obama took office. People were more pessimistic about the direction of the country than in October. They disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy a bit more than before. And, perhaps most striking for the commander in chief, more people have lost confidence in Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan over the last month. Overall, there's a malaise about the state of the nation. "It's in pretty bad shape," said truck driver Floyd Hacker of Granby, Mo., a Democrat who voted for Obama. "He sounded like somebody who could make things happen. I still think he can."

[IrishMike]

Do you approve of President Obama's job performance? No 82% Yes 18%

Is the country heading in the right or wrong direction? Wrong direction 83% Right direction 17%

[raybbr]

LOL how do these stats translate into “Sticking with....”

[KeyLargo]

What is AOL???

[Kansas58]

Notice that they do a poor job of telling you if they talked to “likely voters” or “Americans” -— always a big difference.

When elections are not close at hand, the MSM does not poll “likely voters” as those numbers are not as good for the Dems.

[sionnsar]

[ExTexasRedhead]

I, for one, don’t buy this feces. No one; absolutely no one I talk to can stand the POS and that includes RATs.

[Gorzaloon]

What is AOL???

Something that once was Q-Link for the Commodore 64, metastatized into something huge, then faded away with diallups.

Both their users are valiantly keeping it alive, in a deep coma, SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE THEY KNOW IN ALL CAPS.

[concerned about politics]

Overall, there's a malaise about the state of the nation. "It's in pretty bad shape," said truck driver....

Even the union workers are starting to turn against him. This is a good sign.

[Fresh Wind]

What is AOL???

The lame, overpriced Internet service that ran polls predicting a McCain landslide victory in 2008.

[norge]

Overall, there's a malaise about the state of the nation.

malaise...now where have I heard that before?

Oh, that's right. During Jimmy Carter's term, uh huh.

[concerned about politics]

"He sounded like somebody who could make things happen. I still think he can."

Hope......Always waiting for the future....maybe next year? Or the year after? Or the year after that?

Waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

[IrishMike]

how do these stats translate into “Sticking with....”.
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ultimate water carrying !

[LibLieSlayer]

Rasmussen has him at 46% even in his skewed polling.

LLS

[socal_parrot]

The Internet with training wheels.

[xjcsa]

What is AOL???

It's a service the elderly and the computer-illiterate sometimes use for email and extremely basic internet access.

[OrioleFan]

AOL - Approving Obama’s Lies

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am guessing they must have asked “Would you go and shoot him?”, to which everyone said “no”, hence we are “sticking with him”.

[preacher]

They must have written the story before the poll results. Here are the latest results:

[Izzy Dunne]

LOL how do these stats translate into “Sticking with....”

They haven't descended upon the White House with pitchforks (yet).

[concerned about politics]

It's a service the elderly and the computer-illiterate sometimes use for email and extremely basic internet access.

They install the FREE disk they get in the mail.