Poll: Spill drags the president's rating down

MSNBC.com ^ | 06/23/2010 | Mark Murray

[OldDeckHand]

A silver lining for Obama is that his personal scores are still strong.

Two months of oil continuing to gush from a well off the Gulf Coast, as well as an unemployment rate still near 10 percent, have taken a toll on President Barack Obama and his standing with the American public, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

For the first time in the survey, more disapprove of his job performance than approve; for the first time in his presidency, more than 60 percent believe the country is on the wrong track; and as he relieves Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command in Afghanistan, Obama’s scores on being able to handle a crisis and on being decisive have plummeted since last year.

[OldDeckHand]

Of course, the mindless sycophants have to include a "silver lining", at the very top of the story as well.

[SandRat]

The Lower the Better; Obama meet Davy Jones.

[Fantasywriter]

Day in and day out Obama’s MSM cheerleaders preach the message of his greatness. Then, like innocent bystanders, they report—almost in amazement—that his personal ratings are still high. It is maddening.

[musicman]

[Gorest Gump]

Subtract at least 5% from the positives to account for MSGoerbels bias.

[dr_who]

The part of the MSM that isn’t in denial is the part that will writing tomorrow all sorts of “ANALYSIS:” stories that will lament all the problems that Obama is having and absolve him of responsibility for anything.

[bgill]

Rasmussen is up to -13.

[Tawiskaro]

[hinckley buzzard]

Rasmussen has become more volatile lately. I suspect there is a serious effort afoot by the braindead left to sabotage all opinion polls relating to the Usurper. It only figures, the control of information demands the destruction of the validity of all opinion polls. There must be e-mails out there that can be discovered, instructing the subhuman primates on how to do this.

[DManA]

Naturally they focus on the only one of a dozen brewing disasters that Barry isn’t personally responsible for.

[highlander_UW]

Obama is so incompetent it's getting to the point where his rating are dragging down the ratings of the oil leak.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Doesn’t the public realize the problems Mr. Obama inherited from Presidents Bush, Bush41, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower and McKinley?! Lay off the poor man and while you’re at it, see if you can find the ball he lost on the 4th hole and grab him an organic Ceylon decaf iced tea ... chop, chop!!

[Vanders9]

There is oil in the water...

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

We told them this in the summer of 2008. They didn’t listen.