CAPTION: Obama cheats at limbo.
Posted on 08/23/2009 6:35:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30 (see trends).
Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President’s own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time.
At the other end of the spectrum, today’s total for Strongly Disapprove matches the highest level yet recorded. The 41% mark was reached just once before and that came one week ago today. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans now Strongly Disapprove along with 49% of those not affiliated with either major party.
Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see “What They Told Us.” Topics include health care, the deficit, stimulus package, state polls and more.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter and Facebook.
Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove.
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Iowa?
Hawkeye Cauci: first event of the primary season.
In February 2007,
after at least 6 years of the media bashing him as a war criminal, puppet, dunce, hypocritical draft dodger, fratboy, and racist,
Bush’s score on the same index was almost the same (-16).
Keep in mind that the 9/11 terrorists spent their last days before their mission visiting strip bars and Vegas. For example, see this account
There is a group/sect/whatever in Islam, Takfir wal-Hijra. Zawahiri (al-Q's 2nd-in-command) is a member, along with Atta (the leader of the 9/11 attacks). "Takfir wal-Hijra" is variously defined as "Excommunication and Exodus" or "Anathema and Exile". It really translates better as "undercover infiltration".
It's doctrine is that Muslims engaging in Jihad are exempt from all rules, can drink, go to strip bars, anything they want, in order to blend in and not appear to be Muslims. A Takfiri is allowed to do whatever he wants to convince those around him that he's a non-Muslim, or that he's "become secular" and has no interest in Islam
“Such poll numbers give me a tingle up my leg and give me hope for America.”
I too, am somewhat encouraged, HOWEVER, keep in mind that the strongly disaaprove has remained near constant at 39% for a long time, and has just now edged up to 41%...
The movement that has created the -14 is in democrats getting mad at Obama for not being LEFT WING enough.
The liberal media misread Bush’s low ratings...they didn’t understand that it was a large block of conservatives who did not approve of his job performance, along with the nutcase left who just don’t like ANY republican.
I doubt that Obama will ever fall below 32% strongly approve...these are the same 32% that say the economy is IMPROVING (what planet are they on). These are the same 32% that will approve of Obama even if he executes a litter of kittens on live TV....
They are the Kool-aide drinkers...with the same mentality as the 32% in a recent poll in Russia that prefered STALIN.
Huh.
For 7 1/2 years through 9-11 and 2 wars Bush reigned over a prosperous country with record high home ownership and record low unemployment.
7 1/2 years of prosperity is a LONG freaking time, people will soon forget the part at the very end.
On the other hand. All everyone will have known from obama is misery and hardship, from the day he took office (actually from the day he secured the nomination for the most part) things started going downhill.
After 4 LONG years of nothing but misery, after years of being unemployed and jobless, after never once knowing prosperity under Obama’s leadership... they will either turn out in droves for whoever is running against him, or will stay home out of shame. Either way whoever the next republican nominee is WILL be the next president.
Can we all say, “Free Falling”???
Leftist / Libs comprise about 33% of the electorate every time there is a poll.
27% means 18% (6% / 33%) of his base is disaffected!
he drinks beer
what those two sips at the so called beer fest.
And some what if he has had a beer, if you know anything about muslims , many of them do drink beer, go to strip joints etc but that doesn’t take away form their so called faith or their hatred of us.
sadly many fall for his crap and always want to just believe the better instead of looking at the real person of bozo.
Just look at his agenda thus far and tell me he cares about this country before islam.
we’re not a christian country, goes on about welcoming muslims
goes on vacation at the start of the muslim holiday
I could go on but I am sure I am preaching to the choir
How ‘bout a Zippy for President poster?
Seems like “Zippy” is popular among cartoon characters, puppets, and apes!
Ideal tag for the cartoonish, Soros-puppet primate in the White House.
What was the phrase that Al Gore used about accountability?
Someone will have to remind me...my memories of Algore have largely faded, some intentionally I’m sure.
Congress addressed this issue because of the court case surrounding the 27th Amendment, and SCOTUS agreed. Here is how it unfolded.
The 27th Amendment was proposed by Madison in 1789 along with 11 other amendment proposals. All 12 proposals were slam-dunked through Congress, and 10 of them were ratified immediately and are known as the Bill of Rights. Two others languished in the ratification phase.
In 1984, an aide to a Texas state senator was engaged in research on amendment propsals that had been passed by Congress but had not received enough ratifications to get into the Constitution. He discovered Madison's 12th proposed amendment, quit his job and held seminars for state legislators across the country about it. Ratifications began to pile up, and the 38th ratifrication hit the desk of the Archivist of the United States in 1992. Mr. Remini sent a memorandum to Congress that its power to grant pay raises had just been curbed by a new amendment to the Constitution. Congress went ballistic.
Congress sued the Archivist demanding that the 27th Amndment be removed from the Constitution on the grounds that the ratifications were not contemporaneous, i.e., the ratifications of the 1790's were "stale" and had to be done over. The federal court rejected the arguments and told Congress the only way it could get the 27th removed was through an amendment repealing it. The court, however, informed Congress that it could legislate and reform the amendatory process provided it did not contravene the clear language of Article V.
Congress appealed to the DC Curcuit and was shot down without comment. Congress appealed to SCOTUS, which refused to take the case.
Congress legislated a blanket 7 year timeline for ratifications for all future amendments. Then Orrin Hatch stepped in.
In my essay, I poined out that the ABA did a study on an Article V Convention in 1965. Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IL) turned that study into a bill in 1968 because the move for an Article V Convention to repeal the SCOTUS "One Man/One Vote" decision had hit 32 states. It never hit 34, and Dirksen died in 1969.
Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC) picked up Dirksen's fallen torch and introduced the bill every session to no avail. When Ervin retired, Hatch had picked it up. Hatch added his bill to the amendatory process reform bill, and it was enacted in 1992.
The 32 requests for an Article V Convention for a balanced budget amendment pre-date the 1992 bill, so they are considered immune to the 7 year shelf life rule in the law and are thus still valid. If 2 more states sign on, there will be a convention, but only to address a balanced budget amendment. This is due to the Principle of Agency, a basic principle of jurisprudence. The convention is an agent of the states, and thus cannot go outside the purview granted it by the petitions from the states.
In 1789 two states asked for a general convention to address all possible subjects, i.e., an open convention. Those two petitions are still on the record, but before an open convention could be called by Congress, you would need 32 more states to pile on to those two old petitions. That won't happen unless there is a general catastophe involving government, and the states want to drastically curtail the federal government. It's a constitutional nuclear weapon, but it's not a stealth weapon.
Congress, by the way, cannot take an Article V Convention mandated by the states to address a balanced budget amendment, and permit it to handle any other topic, much less let it become an open convention addressing anything. The Principle of Agency stands in the way, and overturning 800 years of Anglo-American jurisprudence going back to the Magna Carta won't fly under any circumstances.
Now, that’s more like it. And people say there’s never any good news.
That’s awesome! How come this poll is so drastically different then all the other ones I have looked at???
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