Posted on 08/14/2011 10:28:27 AM PDT by tatown
39% Approve, 54% Disapprove
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
Any comparison of the two Presidents' approval ratings should include this disclaimer.
There is no way Bush's real approval rating was as low as the left pushed it and pretended it was, and there is no way that Obama's approval rating is as high as the leftist bias is making it, even now.
“while they now spend 24/7 e-fellating the empty suit.”
Well, yuck. Ick. Barf.
Who is projecting on Perry? You can't stumble across a mention of him on FR without "RINO" "open borders" "Gardasil" "Bilderberg" "Muslim lover" or other mud being flung his way. It's a joke as are most of the allegations.
Are people really clamouring for Bachmann, a backbench lawyer/legislator with no executive experience? Sounds like Barack Obama! And she does have a problem with honesty. She says on the stump and in debates she wouldn't raise the debt ceiling--BULL--she signed on with "Cut, Cap & Balance" if ObamaCare was repealed too but it WOULD raise the debt ceiling. She insists on looking pure rather than being honest.
Pawlenty is a jerk but his words of warning about Bachmann playing fast and loose with the truth should not be taken lightly. Then there's the family farm thing. It took subsidies though she's denied that, but then she said she didn't get income from it but then her own congressional disclosures showed she did declare farm income.
A penchant for prevarication, backed by a wafer thin record, is a bad omen.
If the field isn't set, he may not be "the one" but at least with Perry we can look at his decade of executive experience and know where he stood, where he stands and how effective he's been.
I still think Obama's the odds on favorite for reelection. If this were Aug 2012 and he had 39% approval I may be feeling differently. The Left will see 2012 as "life and death" even if they're irritated at Obama for not being Left enough. They will leave no stone unturned or unthrown.
Well the only precedents for folks who were that low at this point in time were the unelected Harry Truman, LBJ, and Carter. That’s it. Carter got blown out in a landslide, LBJ resigned rather then run and Truman squeaked one out.
The 1948 election for Truman? He won in Illinois of all places. Wallace cost Dewey the election in Ohio and California, and Truman won by 33k in Illinois.
So the question that has to be asked is this.
If the best previous outcome for a president this low at this point in their term, is Truman, what can Obama be thinking? He’s got to worry about challengers in his own party at this point, he’s got to hope for a strong third party run against the Republicans, or he’s got to hope for something to boost him up in the polls, a la Truman, so that he can fight to the end in ‘12 for a brutal battle.
The winds are not favourable for Obama. Can he win? Yes, yes he can.
What did it for Truman? The Berlin Airlift. So, the ball’s in Obama’s court. Can he do what Truman did with the Airlift?
Which is why an option for him is to pull an LBJ. He’s not that low yet, but if he continues falling, watch out.
Frankly, with the piss poor job he’s done, it should be much lower than that. Still, I’m glad it continues to fall.
Wonder what was really going on when that shot was taken of OB.????
Gaul-yup says 39%, that means America says 22% or below.
Perry will get the Hispanic vote and the Muslim vote....but for the life of me I don’t understand any American who’d want Perry.....there will be no closed borders with him for doing so would cut of the “fundings” he’s been getting for his state....he’s a big time globalist. I’d love to know where he stands on the policy Obamas signed on to for the USA, Canada and Mexico to be one trading block.........if that thing flys there will never be closed borders.
I’ve yet to find a single post that levels a false charge at Perry. I think that you may be in denial?
As for Fred and Duncan, they as well as Tancredo should have just never entered the race. Hunter did it for the money, obviously, since he never spent a dime of it, but Tancredo really disappointed me.
I know that he was not well heeled for the race, but he was right on more than 95% of the issues.
Currently we have about 25 or so swooning over Perry, who has nothing to his credit that I can see, and many huge negatives that appear unanswerable, especially his pro-illegal / open borders, and his love fest with internationalist trade scams.
I am not frightened as I don't see any similarities at all. If Perry were to lose the nomination I see no chance of him forming his own party. Palin hasn't announced she is running but if she did and lost the nomination I don't see her forming her own party either.
Yeah, but how many of them vote?
I didn’t say it. I just quoted it. :)
Thanks for that chart Kaslin. I’m keeping it!
Thanks for trying, but your response probably got thrown out for being an "outlier."
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