Posted on 01/19/2010 5:03:27 AM PST by steve-b
Bruised if unbroken, President Barack Obama faces shrinking public confidence, increasingly negative views of the country's direction and far lower ratings than those he carried triumphantly into the White House a year ago this week.
But it could be worse.
Despite their disappointments, 53 percent of Americans in this ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Obama's job performance overall -- 15 points lower than his opening grade, but still just over half at the one-year mark. He remains personally popular, if far less so. And confidence in his leadership, as weakened as it is, greatly exceeds that in the Republicans in Congress, or, for that matter, in his own party....
PRECEDENTS: To a large extent Obama's treading the predicted path for a president presiding over 10 percent unemployment. His course in approval almost precisely matches that of the last president to take office in the tempest of a recession, Ronald Reagan, who went from 68 percent job approval shortly after he took office to 52 percent at the one-year mark. Obama's gone from 68 percent to 53 percent in the comparable period. Their first-year ratings correlate at .88, with 1 representing a perfect match.
The worrying news for Obama is that Reagan went on to slip below 50 percent and pretty much stayed there throughout his second year, bottoming out at 42 percent at the two-year mark (and losing 26 House seats en route). He recovered only when the economy did....
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LOL! Predictible from these MSM clowns...laying the groundwork for the rest of 0bama’s downward slide...
ABC/Washington Post poll. Do you think they even really bother calling people up anymore, or do they just make it up?
The fickle MSM have to try to provide cover, since they were greatly responsible for creating the Obama aura.
If they see their efforts were in futility, they will turn on him and try to bring him down.
Right now, they still have too much invested in the Obama aura to call it a complete failure. They do know that, if Brown pulls off a win today in MA, the Obama agenda will likely have hit a titanium steel wall.
Heck, we don’t even know this guys real name.
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