President Plummets in Polls
A trend continues. Quinnipiac show Obama dropping below the 50 mark!
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 50 percent for the first time in polling by Quinnipiac University as U.S. voter discontent grows over the war in Afghanistan.
Obama’s job approval rating fell to 48 percent in the Nov. 9-16 survey of registered voters nationwide by the Hamden, Connecticut-based university, with 42 percent polled saying they disapproved of the job he is doing.
“In politics, symbols matter, and this is not a good symbol for the White House,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
Obama’s approval rating was 59 percent in a Quinnipiac survey conducted Feb. 25 to March 2.
Economy: 43/52, 47/46 in October – independents 38/58
Foreign policy: 49/42, 49/37 in October – independents 45/49
Afghanistan: 38/49, 42/40 in October – inds 30/57
He can’t make a decision on Afghanistan, he bows to Communist dictators, pushing an unpopular socialist healthcare takeover, the National debt tops $12 trillion, and he is allowing stupid decisions like the 911 conspirators get a show trial. None of this can be helping much, and he isn’t near his bottom yet. He and the Democrats are losing Independents fast. At least some Dems are recognizing it!
Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage.
Following serious setbacks with independents in off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors and said President Barack Obama sees no need to reposition his own image or the Democratic message.
Since then, however, a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents—the swing voters who swung dramatically toward the party in 2006 and 2008 but who now are registering deep unease with the amount of spending and debt called for under Obama’s agenda in an era of one-party rule in Washington.
A Gallup Poll released last week offered a disturbing glimpse about the state of play: just 14 percent of independents approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest figure all year. In just the past few days alone, surveys have shown Democratic incumbents trailing Republicans among independent voters by double-digit margins in competitive statewide contests in places as varied as Connecticut, Ohio and Iowa.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin gives Oprah her highest ratings in two years…even higher than when Obama was on! 1500 people waited in the freezing weather for her autograph! She is making an impact and making her critics sweat. The pendalum is swinging!
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Posted by Jay on November 18, 2009 2:25 pm
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I’ll put aside any sort of ideological disagreements and simply say that you it would’ve helped to run a spell check. Pendalum is not spelled that way.
Nil, maybe you should have stuck to the ideological arguments – either that or maybe you should have run grammar check on your reply. It is not grammatically correct to write, “…say that you it would’ve helped…”
As to the post itself, what ideology would one need to spin these poll numbers in a fashion that bodes well for the Dems? If Harry Reid convinces enough of these Senators to ignore the polls to vote for the (as yet unseen) Senate version of health reform, we can only hope that the Senate falls to the R column along with the House in 2010.
Well, the Senate has almost a zero chance to turn Republican. We have to remember that 2010 is the 2004 cycle, and the Republicans did not start to lose large amounts of seats until 2006. So, gaining 11 seats when more Republican seats are up for re-election is almost impossible (especially when there are plenty of Senators in untouchable Democratic states that are up for re-election).
However, this poll is interesting. Once polls that are slanted to the left start showing that Obama is under 50, he is most likely in the low to mid-40’s in reality.
With every passing day it just becomes political suicide for Democrats to pass healthcare, and pretty much anything else that Obama wants. And, with every passind day, it becomes more and more likely that the Republicans will re-take the House in 2010, will re-take the Senate in 2012, and will defeat Obama’s re-election bid in 2012.
Chris, I hope you’re right about the Republicans taking back both the House and Senate … unfortunately, it may be too late to undo the damage that will undoubtedly be done by that time.
I hope all those idiots who believed our moronic president’s campaign spiel about “change” are happy with themselves now that he’s in office.