Posted on 11/24/2009 7:42:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Current poll data are brutal for the Democrats. In the Rasmussen survey, President Obama's approval index, the difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove of his performance, has hit a record low of -15. Overall, voters disapprove of Obama by 54-45%. That's no doubt in part because voters have also turned decisively against the Democrats' health care proposals, opposing them, currently, by 56-38%.
Meanwhile, voters now favor Republicans over Democrats by seven points on the generic ballot, 44-37%.
Byron York examines the numbers behind Obama's slumping Gallup rating and finds that Obama is now at 39% with whites and below 50% among all those who go to church. Pluralities of all of those who are over 29 years old or earn more than $2,000 a month disapprove of Obama's performance. Looking at it positively, you could say that the President is still hanging tough with the pivotal young, poor, atheist voting bloc. Michael Barone, meanwhile, asks whether Democrats are beginning to desert their sinking ship.
Is that premature? Sure. But there is no doubt that if the 2010 election were held tomorrow, the Democrats would be slaughtered. What do they plan to do between now and November 2010 to turn that around? Jam an unpopular health care bill down the voters' throats, enact a job-destroying tax on carbon that most people now believe is founded on a myth, and raise taxes. [UPDATE: I should have added, they're also freeing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four confederates into the federal court system--that'll generate some helpful headlines over the next year--and now they're also talking about bringing back "comprehensive immigration reform," which prior to the Obama administration was the most unpopular thing Congress had done in a long time. It's a perfect storm of legislative malpractice.] Beyond that, they are crossing their fingers and hoping that the extraordinary vigor of the American economy will survive all of the damage they have inflicted on it, and will rally by November.
That could happen, of course. But it seems like a rather poor bet.
this is the second time, you've posted that (fine) story. 
keep it up. :D
Are ya sure.......I think it’s the first time ......:o)
Just got it in my email today !
But I don’t keep up with my hobby of kicking socialist posers in the teeth when I get a chance so I may have....LOL !
Stay safe !
I...hate...you....
The GOP fares a little better, but barely. They have no spine and I swear to God, if I hear that lame, insipid phrase "My dear friend/colleague from across the aisle", I'm likely to stop voting until I hear someone speak softly and carry a stick the size of a sequoia.
Them suicidal 'Rats is blowed up real good.
I love it.
“We’re going to have to build a bigger margin than this to overcome acorn, union thugs, teacher thugs, trial lawyers, etc.”
You are assuming that the “one” will allow elections to happen next go around. My bet is that by then he will have manufactured a new crisis and declared himself king like his depot buddies in arms.
I hope not because that would mean civil warfare.
Hopefully, Pelosi and Reid are stirring their Kool Aid in huge kettles so the Congress can drink their fill. Come 2010, Pelosi will be Head Mistress of the Sewer where all her sewer slime were spawned including her Mooslimb Messiah.
May they all spend eternity with Satan.
Believe it or not, it is apparantly a T shirt designed for extreme LEFTISTS (who are somehow disenchanted with Obongo, if you can imagine that). But **I** would wear one.
LMAO !!!
Fear not, old fart. The election will take place. America - even in its current battered condition - is extraordinarily resilient.
Old Gump
I wouldn’t bet too much on that position. It’s highly unlikely - if not unprecedented - that a national election in this country would be canceled or postponed. Has it ever happened?
According to the Gallup poll, Obama isn’t supported by 39% of non-Hispanic white voters, he’s supported by 39% of non-Hispanic white *adults*. If elections were held today, and approval rating was a perfect predictor of how people would vote, Obama would get maybe 1/3 of the non-Hispanic white vote. Obama is well into unectability turf.
Just think. If you were the Saudis, wouldn’t you just offer each member of Congress a billion dollars? How many would turn that down? Just a handful.
If you were the Saudis, and wanted to destroy the U.S. in the name of Jihad, and could do it for less than $500 Billion, wouldn’t you do it?
They own Jemmy Cahtuh. And they owned Joe Wilson.
I believe that, given $500 billion, I could get the job done.
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