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Poll: Most Want Obama Fired In 2012
US News and World Report ^ | 10/28/10 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/28/2010 4:57:58 PM PDT by MissesBush

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, rapped by the White House for pledging to make Barack Obama a one-term president, seems to have the support of a majority of Americans. A new poll provided to Whispers says that 56 percent of likely voters want the president fired.

According to pollster Doug Schoen, whose new poll shows vast support for the Tea Party movement among voters, the president is still liked by about half the nation. In fact, more like him personally than like his policies. Some 48 percent think he's a nice guy, while just 42 percent approve of his job performance.

But that personal favorability doesn't translate into re-election support when voters are asked if Obama deserves a second term. Says Schoen: "Despite voters feelings toward Obama personally, 56 percent say he does not deserve to be re-elected, while 38 percent say he does deserve to be re-elected president." Worse, Schoen adds, "43 percent say that Barack Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush, while 48 percent say Bush was a better president than Obama has been."

[See a photo gallery of Bush's legacy.]

Still, the president has a shot at re-election, according to the poll of 1,000 likely voters taken October 18-24. Schoen found that a slight majority, 51 percent, favor a third party in American politics and if that were the Tea Party, then Obama would win in a three-way race in 2012. According to Schoen, if the race pitted Obama, Republican Mitt Romney and Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin in 2012, Obama would top the others with 40 percent; Romney gets 32 percent and Palin 17 percent. And, in a bit of bad news for Palin, if the Tea Party candidate were Mike Huckabee, he and Romney would split the non-Obama vote 24 percent-24 percent.

[See editorial cartoons about President Obama.]

Other highlights in Schoen's poll presentation:

-- 54 percent say the Tea Party has been a good thing for American politics.

-- Voters favor Republicans over Democrats on a generic ballot 48 percent to 39 percent.

-- The Democratic attack on special interest money helping Republicans isn't having much of an impact.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: rashley

He ruined the country with a friendly supportive congress.

He is going to be a vindictive and dangerous scary out-of-control dictator maniac on his own.


41 posted on 10/28/2010 8:14:10 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Jazz1968
"It is 2010, so this poll means absolutely nothing. Pointless as 2012 is a lifetime away politically."

A lifetime is 814 more days. (I'm not counting, no siree, nope not me)

42 posted on 10/28/2010 8:18:56 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: MissesBush

I want him fired out of a cannon.


43 posted on 10/28/2010 8:20:41 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Jazz1968

It has some meaning to what’s going to happen next week. Being this unpopular means a real disaster for the Dems next week. Make no mistake, Obama is on the ballot next week.


44 posted on 10/28/2010 8:22:51 PM PDT by MissesBush (Stay angry--right through November)
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To: chilltherats
Obama has always been a conman. The lies are finally exposed and no one wants to admit that they were taken hook, line and sinker by a fraud. The most gullible cannot admit that they were conned, it makes them even more vulnerable for the next con. When someone is duped so completely as most of the electorate were, they cannot believe that so many of their friends and neighbors and people that they trusted either misled them or were duped in exactly the same way...and this was such a grand fraud. The pleasant television faces that they have trusted for all their source of news and facts have deceived them in the most dishonest and vile way, to admit that they were in on the great and immoral deception would be to admit that up is down and right is wrong. There is no one for them to turn to. They have been told that the other side is evil for so long that they cannot go there either.
Very few conmen last as long as Obama, Inc., but few have so many useful idiots to act as accomplices. When he falls, because he has become nothing more than the great lie he willingly chose to become, it will be epic. He is a liar above all else. He has consistently and willfully lied to the American public, who trusted him and put their great faith in him. They thought that he represented the best of themselves, only he willingly and purposefully betrayed them and the best part of the American spirit. We have never faced such a vile and deceitful public personage. It will be the great test of American spirit in how we deal with his unparalleled betrayal of the American trust.
45 posted on 10/28/2010 8:41:56 PM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: Indy Pendance
"We can’t impeach him, he’s the first half black president. We’d never live that done, ever."

If we can't impeach him because he's half white, then we're playing the race card. Best let America go bankrupt. Best let Americans be known as stupid and PC. Best let America be known as a country that is selfish and doesn't care for the future of their grand children. All this just because a dude is half colored. Let's all be extremely polite while we sink deeper into debt, or end up in jail for not being rich enough to pay the extra fake taxes. Don't you think half the world is laughing at us already?

Nevermind that this golfer is a usurper who cares nothing about us. If I were to look at obama as a half B/W man and use that as a reason to keep him in office, I'd say that all B/W are crooks. Would this be the right thing to say? no. Obama is a person. He's a jerk. He's an adult. He's squatting in the white hut. He should be judged by his character.

Why wouldn't the world cheer us for taking down this man because of what he does and ignore his color? Shouldn't we set an example?

This race thing is so stupid.

46 posted on 10/28/2010 8:51:31 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: madinmadtown

Did people really believe all that crap about him? I only know one person who did.


47 posted on 10/28/2010 8:53:03 PM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step up)
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To: madinmadtown

Yes. That was beautifully stated and very true.


48 posted on 10/28/2010 9:01:26 PM PDT by left that other site (Your MiQ-MaQ Paddy Wacky Bass-Playing Biker Buddy(El Kabong))
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To: chilltherats
I live in a college town. I still see Obama bumper stickers on many cars on a daily basis. I am always tempted to stare at them and tell them that I was just wondering what stupid looks like. I think what concerns me the most is the number of young people who continue to believe in the fantasy con of Obama. Will they become cynical and disillusioned at far too young an age?
49 posted on 10/28/2010 9:01:29 PM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: television is just wrong
"I want him gone by the end of 2010. "

I'm with you. And it's not impossible that SCOTUS might rule on his eligibility, but I'm not sure of the time frame.

50 posted on 10/28/2010 9:28:43 PM PDT by matthew fuller (11/03 Headline: Dems Totally Decimated, Obama Flees Country.)
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To: bigredkitty1
"I would prefer for Zero to be handed the tradional sentence of all cowardly traitors. "

I would prefer for Zero to be hanged, the tradional sentence of all cowardly traitors.

51 posted on 10/28/2010 9:32:04 PM PDT by matthew fuller (11/03 Headline: Dems Totally Decimated, Obama Flees Country.)
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To: madinmadtown

I hope so. ;)


52 posted on 10/28/2010 9:54:39 PM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants)....... would step ince 2006,up)
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To: nascarnation

Enter Bloomberg.


53 posted on 10/29/2010 2:05:49 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (the way to win this game is not to play)
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To: MissesBush

48% of the nation thinks he’s a nice guy even if he is a sneaky, lazy, lying, full of himself SOB.

We’ve got a major delusion here.


54 posted on 10/29/2010 2:49:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: MissesBush

He’s condescending, the smartest guy in every room, better at living than everyone else, compulsive liar, arrogant, malignant narcissist, American hater, Marxist wealth re-distributor and a USDA Top Choice A-hole.

What’s not to like?


55 posted on 10/29/2010 4:42:16 AM PDT by IamConservative (Our collective common sense; the only thing a 1.5GPF toilet ever flushed on the first pull.)
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To: madinmadtown

Sadly as do I. i live in upstate NY, dangerously close to Ithaca. Lots of lesbian Obama Supporters and weak in the wrist college attorney in training liberals. I so want to get out of this state. Just had a discussion with 27 year old “Mr. Educated” on global warming the other day. Of course he believes in the hoax.

Most people say they like him b/c they don’t want to be perceived as racist. There’s also a percentage there that will always be “my race, right or wrong,” you know, the OJ Simpson supporters.


56 posted on 10/29/2010 4:44:50 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: madinmadtown

Excellent post (see my tag line)
We are in the world and the lying left are the hand maidens for evil.
They work for the Original Liar.
They have given themselves over.
We battle not with flesh and blood....


57 posted on 10/29/2010 5:07:17 AM PDT by two23 (Liberals Have Created a Culture of Lies)
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