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Obama's approval hits basement
American Thinker ^ | February 21, 2010 | Richard Baehr

Posted on 02/21/2010 1:25:38 PM PST by Zakeet

President Obama's approval numbers in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll have been quite volatile the last few weeks but today reached a new basement level -- with only 22% expressing strong approval, and 41% strong disapproval. The 19% margin favoring strong disapproval is the 2nd widest registered since Obama took office, and the 22% strong approval number is a new low.

Right after the State of the Union address, the strong approval/strong disapproval level was 35% to 39%. Overall approval/disapproval is now 45%-54%, after briefly tipping into positive territory for Obama at 50%-49% following the State of the Union. If unemployment numbers remain high, and the Democrat-controlled Congress attempts to jam an unpopular health care reform bill through using reconciliation rules in the Senate, these numbers may drop further.

For several months, Rasmussen poll numbers on Obama have been much less favorable than those from other pollsters. That is no longer the case, as many other surveys now show Obama's approval numbers in the mid to high 40s, including polls that have routinely in the past contained samples with a questionable (high) percentage of Democrats and liberals (e.g., Newsweek, Washington Post/ABC, CBS/New York Times).

The Rasmussen survey shows support for the health care bill at 39% and opposition at 58%. For liberals in Congress, a massive new entitlement that will bring 30 million more Americans into a program relying on federal subsidies to provide insurance is a 50 year dream. Leaders from safe districts (like Pelosi) seem willing to sacrifice the seats of other members, and even control of the House after 2010, in order to get a comprehensive health care reform passed. Anyone who thought that the election results, in New Jersey and Virginia in November 2009 and in Massachusetts Senate race in January, would lead to a reassessment of the Administration's priorities seems to have misunderstood the liberal passion for a big, expensive, healthcare reform bill. There has been no pivot to focusing on a job bills, or deficit control, which seem far higher priorities with American voters than health care reform. No televised summits are planned for these subjects.

Democrats in Congress, now face a possible loss of control in the House, with 70 or more vulnerable seats (the Republicans with fewer than 10) and Republicans leading in races for 8 Senate seats held by Democrats. Democrats in Congress are far less popular than President Obama, and the number of Americans who think the country is heading in the wrong direction is more than twice as large as the number who think the country is heading in the right direction in the latest Rasmussen survey at 65% to 28%. These are numbers similar to those in the last years of the Bush administration.

There is ample reason for Michael Barone to say the Democrats now face their worst political environment in more than half a century. The question is why they are doubling down on what brought them from the messianic approval heights of early 2009 to the current sinking levels.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2010polls; approval; bho44; bhofascism; bhosocialism; bhotyranny; democrat; democrats; epicfail; fail; kenya; kenyan; muslim; obama; obamacare; olympicfail; polls
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To: Diogenesis
Magic 3-sided coins!
21 posted on 02/21/2010 1:48:54 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Zakeet
The question is why they are doubling down on what brought them from the messianic approval heights of early 2009 to the current sinking levels.

Because they don't want to govern, they want to rule.
22 posted on 02/21/2010 1:51:22 PM PST by Canedawg (FUBO! Just FUBO.)
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To: Zakeet

It’s too bad that people are just now realizing that this guy is unqualified to be POTUS. He’s way in over his head.


23 posted on 02/21/2010 1:54:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: Zakeet

24 posted on 02/21/2010 1:55:10 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Zakeet
Don't worry Barry, the MSM still loves you.
Although real Americans are beginning to hate your guts.
25 posted on 02/21/2010 2:01:28 PM PST by Bullish (Light skinned with no negro dialect (unless I want one))
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To: pray4liberty
The Hindus would call this karma... for all the hatred O, the Dem Party and their evil minions in the press whipped up and piled on to President George W. Bush and Gov. Sarah Palin. There's more coming, I don't doubt it, and they deserve every bit.

Christians call it "Reaping what one has sown."

Malcolm X called it "The Chickens coming home to roost."

The Chinese call it The "Sam Ting Yu Giv Yu Get"

26 posted on 02/21/2010 2:05:45 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: Zakeet

Read my lips. He...doesn’t...care.


27 posted on 02/21/2010 2:06:01 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Brilliant
It’s going down, but I would not say it’s hit basement.

I agree, he hasn't even come out of the closet yet.

28 posted on 02/21/2010 2:07:44 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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To: Brilliant

“It’s got plenty of room to fall further.”

It could fall a bit faster to make me happier.


29 posted on 02/21/2010 2:08:08 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Zakeet

30 posted on 02/21/2010 2:10:54 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Zakeet

Good post. GRRRRREAT thread! Impeach Barack Obama.


31 posted on 02/21/2010 2:11:04 PM PST by PGalt
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To: left that other site
Malcolm X called it “The Chickens coming home to roost.”

Yeah.
And his own chickens of preaching hate, came home to roost for him, when Elijah Mohammed sent his 3 killers to go take him out. One's crimes in life, has a way of eventually catching up with one.

32 posted on 02/21/2010 2:13:04 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: mojitojoe
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33 posted on 02/21/2010 2:26:13 PM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: SmokingJoe

That is indeed the TRUTH!

My philosophy of life fits right in.

“What goes around comes around.”


34 posted on 02/21/2010 2:27:18 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: Zakeet

35 posted on 02/21/2010 2:27:26 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: apillar

“Doesn’t seem like the public is too fond of the administrations latest trial balloon of Ramming through healthcare again”

Hard to blame them, since the implicit premise of this renewed effort is that the public is way too stupid to know what’s good for them, hence their “betters” in the WH and Congress need to just ignore election results and public opinion polls and pass what the far left wing of the Democrats think is best. In short, the public be damned.

Had there been public polling among the serfs in the Middle Ages, it’s a safe bet that monarchs were held in similar low esteem.


36 posted on 02/21/2010 2:27:47 PM PST by DrC
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To: Charles Henrickson

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37 posted on 02/21/2010 2:30:08 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: GloriaJane
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38 posted on 02/21/2010 2:30:22 PM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: DrC
Had there been public polling among the serfs in the Middle Ages, it’s a safe bet that monarchs were held in similar low esteem.

How can you tell which one is the king?

39 posted on 02/21/2010 2:36:35 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: HangnJudge

40 posted on 02/21/2010 2:37:28 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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