Posted on 04/22/2011 4:10:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
High gas prices and continued anxiety about the economy have taken their toll on President Obama's approval ratings, which have dropped consistently since the president announced he is running for a second term.
Since Obama announced on April 4 with a low-key email and video address to supporters, the president's numbers have gone down in every poll conducted during that period.
Pollsters attribute the president's dropping poll numbers to the rise of gasoline prices, which historically have taken a toll on the popularity of the White House.
Last Friday, a Gallup survey showed the president's numbers at 41 percent, a tie for the lowest point in his administration. At the time Obama announced his reelection plans, the president clocked in at about 49 percent approval.
But in the weeks that followed, which included a near shutdown of the federal government, more unrest in the Middle East and a sharply partisan speech about spending, Obama's numbers have dropped to the mid and low 40s, according to different polls.
Gas prices are traveling in the opposite direction. The average national price of a gallon of gas on Wednesday was $3.83, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report. On April 4, when Obama announced his reelection effort, the average price was $3.69.
Prices also rose steadily in March, from an average of $3.47 for the week of March 7 to $3.53 for the week of March 28, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Gallup has Obama's rating at 42 percent, compared with the RealClearPolitics average of polls that puts Obamaâs approval at about 45 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The average national price of a gallon of gas on Wednesday was $3.83, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. On April 4, when Obama announced his reelection effort, the average price was $3.69.
The average price of gasoline in mid January 2009 when Obama was sworn in was around $1.62/gal. It has risen steadily since that time.
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He sat down too fast.
:’) I shouldn’t snicker, it’s better than even money that he’ll actually try that.
And that’s give or take *another* crisis and/or disaster — and without actually thinking about it, he’s had at least one every three weeks since he entered office, the earlier ones were entirely his struggles to destroy the US through legislation.
Obama’s what happens when racist idiots vote for an effective version of Carter and get it.
I don’t know if ‘effective’ really covers the current office holder’s combination of incompetence and malevolence. I think the difference between Carter and him is more in the presence of the malevolence. Carter just seems naive, not malevolent. He was, is, an American, after all, for all his faults. Carter too was able to get some things done - selling the Presidential yacht, abandoning the Panama Canal, successfully fending off an aquatic attack-rabbit.
I don’t see any question about Obama’s effectiveness in getting legislation passed (until he lost the Congress because, you guessed it, he got legislation rubberstamped by Pelosi’s and Reid’s criminal gangs from the Party of Treason). He’s also effective in foreign policy — we just recognize the fact that what he’s accomplishing are not in US interests. Just because he’s our enemy, and the enemy of the United States (as he’s stated numerous times, though not in those exact words), doesn’t make him ineffective. :’)
I didn’t have much of a protest about it. But ‘effective’ doesn’t sit right on him because it ignores his incompetence, though the malevolent part has been effective, true. He’s in many ways a puppet, doing what he’s told, reading what’s written for him from a teleprompter. Look at him. Mistakes are spun as if they were meant to be like that - Libya, foot dragging on getting their agenda through when they had all the votes. He’s had a lifetime of being an ‘affirmative action hire’. And this is just a continuation of that.
His boyfriend sat down too fast,more likely...
around here obammy is thought of as being lower than whale pooh.
Can’t get much lower than that.
aww, poor barry’s ratings are down. isn’t that just to bad mr. soetero?
I hope that means that in 2012 he’ll be ejected from one blowhole or the other.
The Pubbies are doing this right — the full impact of Obamacare will hit in time to be used as a campaign issue in 2012, and shouldn’t be used as a drumbeat until then. Except by Trump, since he’s already running. But he’s not really a Pubbie anyway.
Of course, he lied his way in.....he will obviously lie his way through....as he will lie on his way out. =.=
Don’t go away mad, just go away.
He runs again, for real, and he’s gonna get a worse shellacking than ANY second term President EVER.
I agree. They trash Palin non stop and lift up their boy non stop - the MSM doing what they do - spreading propaganda. I believe nothing they are associated with - polls, included.
Well done, says it all. The flies cracked me up - LOL!!
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