It’s True, Mr. President – Sometimes Less Really is More

The Collins Report ^ | January 28, 2010 | Fritz Wenzel

[jmaroneps37]

It’s like trying to lose weight by eating Snickers bars or trying to save gas by driving out of your way.

It just doesn’t work.

When President Barack Obama said the recent “Massachusetts Massacre,” where Republican Scott Brown won election in a heavily Democratic state, was the result of a White House failure to “get our message out,” he spoke in contradiction to what national polling suggests.

A recent Wenzel Strategies survey showed that, if given the chance for an election “do–over,” just 44% would vote for Obama for President today. Another 45% said they would vote for an unnamed opponent. However, what is more telling about this data point is that among two key demographic groups – independents and men – Obama performs much worse.

Among independent voters, who are critical to Obama’s success, just 37% said they would vote for him today. Just 40% of men said the same.

This isn’t because no one knows what Obama’s doing. Rather, it’s because they know too well what he’s doing. The statistics tell the story: Obama has conducted more interviews and appearances in his first year than any other President in modern history.

When the Food Network broadcasts from the White House, it’s a sure sign of over–exposure. But, as last night’s State of the Union message demonstrates, the sick patient doesn’t agree with the diagnosis or the remedy. The best way to lose weight is to eat less. You save gas by driving less. You cure media over–exposure by staying away from your teleprompter and the cameras.

Tumbling poll numbers are whispering to Obama that less is more. If nothing changes, later this year, they will be shouting a harsher message.

By now you probably know of the plunge in Obama’s job approval rating from 69%..

[jmaroneps37]

FRom hero to zero for the dopes that voted for him. It's greatr hearing the regret stories.

[Vaduz]

It’s True,Sometimes Less Really is More.The less of Obama&Co. the better.

[mc5cents]

From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603:

LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

AND TEDIOUSNESS THE LIMBS AND OUTWARD FLOURISHES

Barry did not get the message.