Posted on 06/25/2010 12:41:30 AM PDT by Brytani
The White House has been fond of citing turning points lately, most recently when describing the administration's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Now President Obama faces a turning point of his own — and not for the better.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds Obama's approval rating to be the lowest it's been since he took office 18 months ago. According to the poll, only 45 percent approve of the job Obama is doing in the White House, compared with 48 percent who disapprove. And the numbers only get worse from there: Sixty-two percent of respondents believe the country is on the wrong track — the highest number recorded since just before Election Day in 2008 — and just one-third believe things are going to get better, a 7-point drop since a month ago and the lowest such number in the Obama presidency.
The fallout from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill appears to be the biggest drag on Obama's numbers. Fifty percent disapprove of his handling of the crisis — including one in four Democrats. But generally, the poll finds increasing doubts about Obama as a leader.
Just 49 percent of those polled give Obama positive ratings when asked if he has "strong leadership qualities" — that's a decline of 8 points since January and nearly 20 points from when he first took office.
Less than half rate him positively when asked if he's "honest and straightforward." In January '09, 63 percent gave him positive marks for "being firm and decisive in decision-making." That number is now at 44 percent.
Asked about his "ability to handle a crisis," only 40 percent rate him positively, an 11-point drop since January. You can read the full poll results here.
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Mark my words - pretty soon the media will start the mantra they introduced during the Carter years: “The job is too big for any one man” “Nobody can win the approval of the majority of the people given the problems we now face”
Yadda, yadda, yadda - that was their excuse for Carter - and then when Reagan came in and cleaned up all the mess, while also garnering favorable approval ratings, suddenly the job wasn’t so impossible after all - Reagan could do it even though he supposedly slept through his presidency. And of course the Soviet Union collapsed all on its own.
I won’t be even mildly happy until I see it closer to 30%......
But that’s just me.......
PING
a 45% approval for this bumbling idiot is still WAYYY TOO HIGH!
Comon folks, we have work to do.
His approval rating should be equal to the percentage of black folks in this country cause they will NEVER abandon him....EVER!
I don’t know where they are getting these figures, but 45% approve of the job he is doing? 49% think he has good leadership skills?
These are fraudulent numbers. There isn’t a chance half the people in this nation think he’s a good leader.
He’s offended the right. He’s offended the left. This guy has stabbed more people in the back in 1.5 years, than any president in U.S. history.
Does the left think he’s done a good job on the Bay of Rigs? Does the left think he’s been brilliant by appointing Petraeus to be the new Afghanistan General in charge?
45%? 49%? How about 23% and 27%. Only a die-hard Obama disciple could approve of him. That isn’t anything near 45 or 49%.
In fact, he probably will find it even more enjoyable to be a ruthless dictator ruling over masses of people who he knows HATES HIM.
Can you imagine the “fun” of having complete control over the lives of your enemies, being able to send them to labor camps of death if they so much as look at you wrong?
Fun if you are evil. I believe Obama is evil.
Unoccupied lampposts, rope, rails, tar and feathers will soon be in short supply. The tranny is much larger than just this stupe indonesian/kenyan and much more important will their purge be.
“If we’ve lost Yahoo, we’ve lost the nation.” BHO
GOP holds solid leads in FL, VA, CO. Ohio is at a tipping point. If we return Democrats to power in 2010, Ohio will then go the way of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
And the GOP has a good chance to taking Michigan, because people want jobs.
You’re preaching to the choir, my friend. If you’ll look at my posts you’ll see I’ve been saying all along he’s not incompetent. Newt seems to think so. Maybe he’s in on it.
LMAO!
OOPS! A thousand pardons!
If they qualified the respondents by people who aren’t receiving free money from the government, the approval numbers would drop another 20.
If they qualified the respondents by people who aren’t receiving free money from the government, the approval numbers would drop another 20.
NOW IT IS BECOMING OBVIOUS WHY HIS WIFE WAS CONCERNED AND AT FIRST AGAINST HER HUSBAND RUNNING FOR PRES. SHE KNEW WHAT HE WAS AND WHAT HE WAS ABOUT, HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND HANDLERS AND SHE HAD ONE CONCERN THAT HE WOULD BE KILLED SOMEWHERE IN THE PROCESS. HIS HANDLERS PAID FOR A LAVISH HI VACATION TO PERSUADE HER. LATER SHE SPOKE THE WORDS ‘’ this is the first time in my adult life that I can say that I am proud of my country ‘’ ! I HAVE A FEELING THAT WHAT HE HAS DONE THUS FAR IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT HE WANTS IN THE COMING DURATION OF HIS TIME IN OFFICE AND WITH A VERY LIBERAL MAJORITY AT THE HELM . VERY SCARY TO SAY THE LEAST !
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