Posted on 06/23/2012 5:20:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As consumers get some welcome relief from painful gasoline prices heading into the Fourth of July holiday, President Barack Obama’s approval ratings on his handling of the economy have also taken a dip for the same reason: worsening economic conditions.
Just 33 percent of Americans now believe the president is doing a “good” or “excellent” job when it comes to the economy, according to a Rasmussen poll.
That’s down from 41 percent at the beginning of May, which could be yet another sign that the president’s re-election chances are tied more to the economy than to any other political issue.
“This election is more than just a referendum on President Obama. It is a referendum on his handling of the economy,” declares Political analyst and Democratic pollster Doug Schoen in an exclusive interview with Newsmax on Friday.
InsiderAdvantage head and pollster Matt Towery agrees with Schoen’s assessment. “Regardless of what poll you’re looking at, the president’s not doing well in the economy in terms of just dealing with the economy.” …
“Gas prices are the political football of the world and they generally never mean anything,” said Towery. “What they’re concerned about is people don’t have any money in their pocket.” …
U.S. manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in 11 months in June and the number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment aid fell only slightly last week. …
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What the hell is wrong with these 33%? Are they brain-damaged or just terminally stupid?
That is a huge, HUGE problem that has nothing to do with elections.
they have jobs.
Consider that the number stood at 41 percent close to two months ago.
Both and most of them work for the government, which could be viewed as either a cause or a result.
A declaration of Marshal Law and imposition of DHS Police State should be imminent from the dictator king...
Remember the trial lawyers? Then there are the school teachers, cops, firemen, ....... college professors, import/export types, publishers, editors, newspaper people, columnists, investment bankers, etc.
They like Obama ~ and they are also in the 33% ~ oh, yeah, and there are your usual leftwingtards who'll go along with anything that says 'democrat' even if it's fascism, communism, islamists, etc.
I suspect abortion advocates are in that crowd as well ~ but, then again, we don't want "THEM" do we ~ (even though we're running one of their followers as a Republican for President ~ gaaaccckkkkk!!!!!!!)
33% of Americans would approve of Obama if he raped and murdered their children. This is about as low an approval rating as he can get.
Willard’s Rope-a-Dope strategery seems to be working.
Obama: America’s Jerry Sandusky
Yeah, great. Gasoline is down to only DOUBLE what is cost when zero took office. (How is he going to claim credit for that?)
“What the hell is wrong with these 33%? Are they brain-damaged or just terminally stupid?”
“they have jobs.”
oh, I’d venture a guess that the 33% don’t have jobs, but they do have regular monthly govt issued checks arriving in their bank accounts. As far as they are concerned, the economy is just fine.
33% of the population answer the pollsters questions on their http://obamaphone.net/
Dead-Enders.
This is Obama's base.
Thanks for the link.
Unreal. But there is nothing new under the sun.
This is Obama’s updated version of Hitler’s Volksempfänger - aka “People’s Receiver”.
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