Obama polls plummeting
By Brian Kirwin | Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | PolicyAP reports that Obama’s poll numbers concerning the economy have hit an all time low!
“41 % of those surveyed approve of the president’s performance on the economy, down from 44 % in April …61 % say the economy has gotten worse or stayed the same on Obama’s watch.”
Hope and change, huh?
“A whopping 81 % of people now call the economy poor or very poor, up from 72 % in June, and just 12 % say it has improved in the past month, compared with 19 % in June. Both are record measurements since AP-GfK started asking those questions.”
But what about Obama’s overall job performance?
“Just 34 % now call him an above average or outstanding president, down from 42 % in January. And 28 % call him average, while 38 % say he’s even worse.”
With Obama’s polling in the basement with regards to the economy, did some idiot thinking “we gotta change the subject” hope that a mosque at Ground Zero would do the trick?
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Tags:
Contribute for Conservatism!
Share this post
About the author
The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
We're 75% there! Thank you to everyone who has so far contributed! Just $2000 to go!
Comments
6 Responses to "Obama polls plummeting"
Obama’s presidency has become a proverbial “spoon in the garbage disposal”…. Every time Obama flips the switch (Mosque comments, oil disaster, foreign apologies, Beer summits, Pelosi comments, etc., etc.) he ends up creating lots of noise and his presidency becomes more mangled. The good thing is that many in the Democratic party who are shepherding “hope and change” for the “spoon” are also rattling around and getting mangled with him and will finally enter the drain pipes on election day.
But we will still have the mangled “spoon” rattling around in the disposal making all that noise which is getting downright embarrassing…..
Not only is the noise from the spoon embarrassing, there’s a good chance it will fly out and put out an eye. How’s this for a metaphor; “the Obama Presidency, like shrapnel from a garbage disposal!”
Duck and cover folks!
“The Democrats have settled on their message: If you hate what we’ve given you — just wait ’cause there’s more where that came from. And anyway, it’s Bush’s fault
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., attributed her sagging approval rating to voters who are “grumpy” about the sputtering economy. (I suppose there is nothing to the line going around Washington that in an effort to help Boxer hold her California Senate seat, the White House is going to rename the San Andreas Fault “Bush’s fault”)
Vice President Biden, on the Democratic Party’s “summer of recovery” national tour three weeks ago, blamed the lack of recovery (go figure! Announcing lack of recovery while on a recovery tour?) on the continuing effects of the “Bush recession.”
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked if there was a limit to how long Democrats could blame Bush, her stunningly fatuous response was: “Well, it runs out when the problems go away.” Oh, for the days when President John Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, took personal responsibility, saying, “As president, I am the responsible officer of government.”
But more fundamentally, one has to wonder about the soundness of the Democratic Party’s central message to the voters: Don’t vote to return to the “failed policies of the past.”
With President Obama in the Gallup polls going from a high of 68 percent job approval to his current 43 percent; with the confidence that the country is on the right track going from a high in June ’09 of 45 percent right track-45 percent wrong track to its current 61 percent-32 percent wrong track; with the generic ballot measuring the public’s plan to vote Republican or Democratic for Congress going from pro-Democrats by 48 percent to 34 percent to pro-Republican by 46 percent-41 percent — an unprecedentedly swift swing to the GOP — one wonders whether, with time passing on, as it does, the admonition that the voters not vote for the “failed policies of the past” might fail to be understood as a request to vote Democratic.
Perhaps they should just spit it out: Vote Democratic for more of the same.”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_tony_blankley/summertime_2010
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Bearing Drift, Old Virginia. Old Virginia said: New Blog Post: Obama polls plummeting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bearingdrift/~3/ZomiwvI0-nY/ [...]
I think this debate is getting all out of kilt. First off the proposed mosque is of the Sufi sect, and Sufi Muslims have been specifically targeted by Al Qaeda as enemies. Second, while NYC polls remain against the mosque, those members of the city, those in their neighborhood who have experience with the operators of the mosque, seem to overwhelmingly support the building of the COMMUNITY CENTER (not a mosque).
On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show I was able to listen in as Brian asked the members of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood listener-ship to call in. He was overwhelmed with those calling in to praise how positive an influence the Sufi members of their neighborhood were to them. Brian even promised head of the line privileges to an opposing viewpoint but none came up. Not one member of the neighborhood called in to complain.
Perhaps if we are going to kick potential allies out, that will invite them to consider aligning with the other side? Sufi Islam has been targeted by Al Qaeda as an enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Littledavid, you would make Nick Berg proud.
Leave your response