New poll: Obama’s executive-privilege assertion not as popular as WH imagined (Only 29% back Obama)

hot air ^

[sunmars]

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, the numbers are as brutal as he says. In a poll taken by The Hill after last week’s assertion of executive privilege by Barack Obama in the Operation Fast and Furious probe, only 29% of likely voters supported Obama’s move to block access to Department of Justice documentation, while a clear majority disapproved:

A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill. …

The Hill Poll found that likely voters disapproved by an almost 2-to-1 margin of Obama’s assertion of presidential power in the case. Overall, 56 percent of voters disapproved of his action, while only 29 percent approved.

The news is even worse among independents, and it’s not exactly a slam-dunk among Obama’s base, either:

The defense is not proving an easy sell with voters, particularly independents.

Sixty-one percent of independents said they disapproved of the president’s actions, and just 25 percent approved. Among Republicans, opposition to the president’s use of executive privilege was more entrenched at 78 percent.

Even 28 percent of Democrats, and 30 percent of self-identified liberals disapproved of Obama’s position.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

I don't know if anybody else "got" the map, but I did.

Well played.

[Yosemitest]

Don't thank me (but I do appreciate it), thank Glenn Beck, whose site it came from.

[Yosemitest]

I LOVE YOUR GRAPHIC.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Actually, I believe it was created by another FReeper; I just found it on Dogpile.

I LOVE YOUR GRAPHICS, FrankR!

[FrankR]

Actually, it is mine. My stuff is all over the place now as people went to my Photobucket site and downloaded them. My name and the date is in the lower right corner of the graphic.

Thanks for the compliment!

[Yosemitest]

Well thank you for your great work.

What do you think of, or could you make a short jibjab or comic of Obama and Eric Holder together at a podium,
with blood dripping from their hands,
with hoverig ghost of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on one side
and the hovering ghost of murdered federal agent Jaime Zapata on the other,
with over two hundred murdered Latinos hovering in the background.
In front of the podium is a face of Nixon and the word Executive above Nixon, and the word Privilege below Nixon.

It would be great to use for the coming defeat of this Fabian Fascist and his Marxists minions.