Posted on 09/24/2011 6:51:00 AM PDT by kristinn
President Barack Obama's approval ratings have fallen to a new low, with only 36 percent of Americans saying that they approve of the way he is handling his job overall, according to a new poll from the Economist/YouGov. A majority of Americans - 56 percent - disapprove of the president's performance.
Even more concerning for the president may be the news that top Republican candidates have moved within striking distance in head-to-head matchups. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney trails Obama by just a 44 percent to 43 percent margin, while Texas governor Rick Perry trails 46 percent to 42 percent.
As has been the case in previous polls showing the president's slipping approval, Americans seem frustrated primarily in a souring economy. Only 30 percent of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of the president's handling of the issue. 50 percent of Americans believe that the policies of the Obama Administration have hurt the economy, and 53 percent say that they have hurt the middle class.
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The Economist/YouGov poll surveyed 1000 respondents with a margin of error of 3.7 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They can't answer their phone....they're out voting for Herman Cain.
“In my opinion , George Bush was the first president to be appointed by the Supreme Court of the U.S........”
Uh oh........
one only has to look at the homosexuals
first it was leave us alone it’s our private life.
then it was well civil unions and we’ll be happy
then it’s marriage, teach in schools, have them in the military.
It just never stops with the left and we need someone who has enough guts to say that and overturn this madness which has ruined society and our country
I'm not a snitch, but.... I predict a short life as well.
Betcha if you translated that into electoral votes he’d be lucky to bust 200.
“I predict a short life as well.”
A zot would be kind....put em out of his misery!
If they admit to 36%, he must really be at 26%
This is true. I work with people of all different stripes in all different industries. The general consensus is one of a waiting. I always inquire how business is and then sorta hint to see of they'll move in my general direction. As one home builder put it Friday, "maybe after 2012 things will return to normal and we'll have a business friendly government"
Conversely, we do a lot of work for big academia. Those people are clueless. They've never had any money, never worked in the real world and don't have much of a complaint - other than their budgets are not big enough. It's hard for me to mask my contempt for those parasites, I'll tell ya.
It was once stated that the biased media cause a 17 point skew in election and poll results.
Taking that as a base, then Bush’s lowest rating would have been 39% and Obama’s current rating would be 19%, if we had unbiased media.
Amazingly bad stats for this President. It took Bush nearly 6 years and 1 very unpopular war to get a score this bad. In a similar fashion, this President has spent more money in 3 years than Bush did in 8 years....unbelievably bad also.
Mega thanks for the link, very informative.
So according to this article, the Liberal Messiah leads Romney and Perry even though His approval rating is at 36%. How does that make any sense? Also, we need a poll regarding the Liberal Messiah against Herman Cain.
I’m trying to understand warped racist mentalities like Morgan Freeman’s that subjugate politics, economics and everything else to racialist prejudices.
It also took years of a concentrated hate and smear campaign from the Left, the Democrat engineered economic crash and being falsely blamed for Katrina to bring down Bush’s approval ratings that far.
I’m trying to understand warped racist mentalities like Morgan Freeman’s that subjugate politics, economics and everything else to racialist prejudices.
Its easy to understand. They subjugate politics, economic and everything else to racialist prejudices.
As well, as class distinctions and generally devide everyone into creepy subgroups..of which they are the creepiest irrational group of group-think dembots.
Ironic that the supposed racist Tea Party could care less about race, or income, or the sexual orientation of a person.
As long as you don’t try to blame other’s for your personal choices and you don’t believe everyone else owes you a lifestyle.
However, the suppose non-judgemental(?) super race of dummicrats is obcessed with that junk.
Probably, what more and more folks are FINALLY figuring out and why Ibama is sinking in the polls.
He won't get the same level of support in 2012 that he got from the black community in the last election. Black unemployment has jumped significantly since he became president, and even the Congressional Black Caucus is angry with him about it.
Blacks are feeling left out in the cold by Obama. Many would still like to support him in 2012, but they watched him bail out Wall Street to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and reward unions and his buddies in the green sector with Porkulus dollars.
He hasn't come anywhere close to living up to the hype of 2008, and his poll numbers among black voters reflect that (oh yes, they've fallen). In my view, a lot of black voters will simply stay home, because the thrill is gone.
They got pimped, and they know it.
We need to just set up one of these, without numbers, as a “sticky” and add on subsequent articles with the same title.(hehehe)
Poor analogy...we could and can and do hate the guy but this is over the top...find another way of saying this.
I certainly didn’t mean it the way you took it.
He may be half-black. But he is definitely not “one of them”. An unsubtle fact that most blacks aren’t bright enough to discern.
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