A Devastating Poll on Obama -- and Obamacare

Townhall.com ^ | November 19, 2013 | Michael Barone

[Berlin_Freeper]

“No, we all knew,” Gillibrand said.

[Kaslin]

Of course they did, but they voted for it anyway

[Gen.Blather]

As far as I’m concerned the president’s approval numbers are still ridiculously high. They are a testament to the liberal control of our classrooms.

[woweeitsme]

Call me crazy, but with the mess this healthcare plan is, starting more wars, alliance with Iran, the economy still sucking, NSA snooping, and all the other Tom-foolery going on in this administration, I don’t think his poll numbers are that bad.

If this were a Republican President, he would have been forced to resign a long, long time ago.

[newfreep]

He’s fallen and can’t get up...

[NorthMountain]

At the very least, Benghazi, IRS maltreatment of conservative groups, NSA snooping on Americans in America, Fast and Furious would seem ripe fields for holding impeachment hearings. Even if Hairy Reed won’t do anything, the hearings would shine a lot of sunlight on 0bama’s malfeasance in office.

[bert]

The numbers are at or near the bottom.

I consider 36% to be the bed rock of true believers that will not be swayed. The 39% number is edging close to the bedrock

[billhilly]

The Emperor wears Golf Shoes.

[umgud]

If you like your president, you can keep him.

[grania]

If he were a Republican president...

I'm ready to tell it like it is. If he were not passing himself off as a black president, he would've been held accountable all along the way, and thus less likely to end up with such total disasters.

One result of special minority class treatment throughout his life is that Obama just makes pronouncements and nobody challenged them, ever. It's insulting, and people doing this pandering are the worst kind of racists.

[Kaslin]

The poll numbers are fixed in his favor. You have to deduct at least 10 percent to get to the poll numbers

Also did you see the report that the unemployment rate before the 2012 election was fixed in his favor when it fell suddenly from 8.1% in August 2012 to 7.8% in September of 2012.

The liberals just can not win without fraud and deceit. The worst thing of it is they are getting away with it.

[RipSawyer]

I find it astounding that his poll numbers are not far worse than those quoted. On the other hand, I still find it astounding that someone so obviously out of place occupies the oval office. It is equivalent to picking a random bum from the gutter and making him president, in fact it is far worse, most randomly picked bums do not hate this country. Some idiots usedd to tell me that we could not do worse than George W. Bush, I cringed every time I heard it said, we are now seeing the result of that attitude. If Obama is not worse than Bush then the word has no meaning.

[Kaslin]

What president? We don’t have one as far as I am concerned

[Kaslin]

They are at least 10 percent to high, but should be down to the mid or lower 20s

[Jim Noble]

a devastating Quinnipiac national poll. It showed Barack Obama's approval rating at 39 percent

It's devastating, all right - but not for the reason Barone says.

It means that after everything that has happened and continues to happen, 4 in ten of the persons who inhabit this geographic area hate your country, hate you, and would kill your children if they could.

And, remember, some of the "disapproves" are unhappy because the killing of your children hasn't started yet.

[MulberryDraw]

perhaps Americans are also starting to notice that this president is not performing his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law -- and in this case, a law he and his party wrote.

Well, we can hope but I'm afraid this is probably a stretch.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

It really irritates me when leftists talk about ‘Preventative Care’, as though saying: ‘if only we were a compassionate society and funded people to avoid getting sick, everyone would be healthier, sickness would decrease, and health care costs would all go down’. They really believe that crap. The fact is that barring some miraculous advancements - everyone gets sick from something eventually, and everyone dies eventually. The best we can do is optimize the genetics we were born with by doing sensible things like, not being overweight, not smoking or excessively drinking, not gang-banging or driving recklessly, checking our blood pressure and treating it if is high (blood pressure checks are free at many drug stores), etc. etc. These are personal choices (or at least they have been), and are not enforceable by physicians. No matter how many ‘free’ doctor visits you have, if you don't heed common sense advice - it won't prevent squat.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Anyone voting for that dumb traitor needs to have a mental evaluation pronto, IMO.

[usmom]

Anyone voting for that dumb traitor needs to have a mental evaluation pronto, IMO.

I work with a woman who is digging in and defending Obama more with every passing day- refusing to admit anything is wrong or amiss or even that the country is fed up. No, Obamacare just has a few glitches and once the genius fixes them we will all see what a GOD he really is for bestowing free health care upon us all. She is a friend and in the past we have just kind of joked and had lighthearted debates, but it is getting harder and harder to be around her. I am actually getting this uneasy feeling that she really is crazy because of this. The other day I just came out and said that for the sake of our friendship we should stop talking about politics and Obamacare in particular. She keeps bringing it up and I at first gently and lightheartedly remind her, then she keeps at it and I have to say no really, you need to stop.