WSJ/NBC: For the first time, views of Obama are more unfavorable than favorable

Hot Air ^ | October 30, 2013 | Allahpundit

[2ndDivisionVet]

Lots of people, including NBC, are leading with the fact that his job approval is also at a new low (42/51), but that’s less interesting to me than his favorable rating. Of course his job approval’s in the tank. How could it not be? He’s tangled up in the NSA dragnet again, he’s still smarting (as is the GOP) from public bitterness about the shutdown, and he’s got a five-alarm political fire on his hands from the dual failures of Healthcare.gov and the “if you like your plan” fiasco. This isn’t even the worst approval rating he’s had in polling lately: YouGov pegged him at 44/54 and last week Fox News had him at 41/53. He’s lucky he’s not below 40 percent. Yet.

His favorable rating is more significant to me because that’s not so much a measure of a politician’s performance as it is his likeability. You can think a guy’s doing a crappy job but still sympathize with him personally. O’s been underwater in WSJ/NBC’s job approval polling before — he had an especially bad stretch in late 2011 — but the public continued on balance to have a more favorable impression of him than an unfavorable one. They’ve been on his side, even when they’ve when they’ve been unhappy with the results. But not anymore:

The NBC/WSJ pollsters argue that no single reason explains Obama’s lower poll standing. Rather, they attribute it to the accumulation of setbacks since the summer — allegations of spying by the National Security Agency, the debate over Syria’s chemical weapons, the government shutdown and now intense scrutiny over the problems associated with the health care law’s federal website and its overall implementation…

And for the first time in the survey, even Obama’s personal ratings are upside-down....

[a fool in paradise]

25 million scofflaws crossed the border and created false identities. Catch them, send them home, and they still come back with no punishment.

In Caliphony they are trying to give “in state tuition” to illegal immigrants (round eye from Ohio must pay full rate).

If no one buys insurance and everyone refuses to pay the fine, the gubmint may stomp and stammer but they cannot lock up the whole country. Prisons are already full.

Jimmah Carter didn’t even try to prosecute all of the Viet Nam draft dogers.

The public still has a say in this matter.