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Gallup Poll Is Even Worse for Obama

By Philip Klein on 7.20.09 @ 3:12PM

Earlier today, I posted on the sagging numbers for President Obama in the new Washington Post/ABC News poll, but Obama comes across even worse in a USA Today/Gallup poll, which pegs his approval rating at 55 percent -- ranking him 10th among the 12 post-World War II presidents at the same point in their first terms. Specifically, on health care, his approval is at 44 percent, and only 41 percent approve of his handling of the deficit.

•59% say his proposals call for too much government spending.

•52% say they call for too much expansion of government power.

•Expectations about when the economy will recover are souring. In February, the mean or average prediction for a turnaround was 4.1 years; now it's 5.5 years.

•There's limited faith in his economic stimulus package, especially when asked for its likely impact on their own finances. A third predict it will make things better for their families in the long term; a third say it will make things worse.

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JJC| 7.20.09 @ 4:10PM

K.O.C.B.!

Keep On Cratering Baby!

Eventually, even the bib and knee pad wearing state run media will open their one functioning eye and realize what the rest of the US who actually work for a living have known now for several months: The emporer has no clothes.

Until then, 2010 cannot come soon enough.

The irony is that he is destroying-methodically- the reputation and viability of left of center political thought.

Our nations needs healthy and viable parties to act as a cantilever to each other. It keeps things between the 40 yard lines, so to speak.

This will not help it.

The result? See Illinois politics- Exhibit A on the list of error with single party rule.

ds80| 7.20.09 @ 4:18PM

Oh dear. Time to get a different teleprompter? Yeah, that's the ticket.

Patriot| 7.20.09 @ 4:27PM

Where oh where are the trolls? Where's RINO Bob, the Obama knee pad wearing fiscal conservative who ardently defends Obama's leftist fiscal policies?

C'mon, RINO Bob, regale us once again about Obama's purported "Knowledge." How's it workin' out for ya now, cowardly troll?

Scott| 7.20.09 @ 4:36PM

One would normally want to lay down the shovel and stop digging when the hole gets too deep. I say, just keep in digging, Zero. You're finding out the hard, painful way that your pretty speeches just aren't carrying the day anymore. The Kool-aid - induced stupor is lifting and people are waking up. America REJECTS your radical socialist agenda. But keep trying.... PLEASE... keep pushing your fellow dems. It's for the best, don'tcha see.

WendyG| 7.20.09 @ 5:10PM

Ha! It was only a matter of time.

WendyG| 7.20.09 @ 5:10PM

Ha! It was only a matter of time.

Old Texican| 7.20.09 @ 5:59PM

Mr. Klein
Thanks for the report...BUT...we are in a race to the finish over the next few months. We might very well have lost the American dreams of millions for several lifetimes if we do not keep the pressure on the communists...RIGHT THE HELL NOW!
My Senators and Rep are pretty decent folks.
(Cornyn, Hutchison, Culbertson)

Help us identify the district Reps, and senators we can bump...or fire in 2010 so we can bombard them with real American letters. or help their conservative opponents.
Thank you

Terencio| 7.20.09 @ 7:19PM

Rasmussen, 7/20/09: Obama approval 50%, strong disapproval leads strong approval about 7%(likely voters). If trend continues:negative O- territory tomorrow. An informed public will dump the Demo-gogues in 2010 & 12. Viva free America, dump the thugocrats, may truth &awareness; triumph!

John - TMF| 7.20.09 @ 8:45PM

An old local politician taught me two very important things about politics and being a Republican in a Democrat controlled world.

1. You can't play if you don't win... (a brilliant twist on an old lottery come on...)

2. The Democrats get an 8 to 10 point French kiss from the popularity pollsters.

Number 2 is important here. The MSM/Government Controlled Media/Democrat Party Propaganda Machine, of which the pollsters are a part, use polling to shape the bandwagon effect of populist sentiment.

So. The One's real numbers are probably in the high to mid 40's which squares with the actual percentage of his party base within the pop culture polity.

Roughly 35% of the population would vote for a corpse if it ran as a Democrat. The other 10% to 15% necessary to win are a mixture of Bandwagoners and Democrats who fancy themselves to be "independent" but who reliably pulll the lever for a Dem, every time.

The Obamessiah is losing the Bandwagoners. His numbers are going to be more difficult to fudge. The lies are more difficult to sustain as fewer promises come true, and it become obvious that the promises were merely convenient words.

By New Years, the Blame Bushitler and evil Darth Cheney will have been exhausted. Obambi will own the monster, and it will likely consume him.

His real numbers in November of 2010 will be dispiriting to the most staunch Dems. No false fronts or big promises will ring true between then and 2012.

Republicans get elected on the "Hell NO!!!" ticket of 2010, and the Cavalry rides to the rescue again ticket of 2012.

Weeeee what a rride... wot?

yeesh...

r/John - TMF

Reaganite Republican| 7.20.09 @ 9:14PM

The Porkulus is a train-wreck... these jobs figures are far worse than the ones the White House warned us about if we DIDN’T pass the bill- so it was passed, and then unemployment soars anyway?

Instead of creating jobs, interest rates were bumped up, the dollar slid… and it didn’t help anybody get any work. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama’s agenda has mortified almost every source of job-and-growth creation in the country.

The Dear Leader couldn’t deliver the type of “temporary, targeted, and timely” bill that he promised repeatedly. Regardless of his image in the MSM, Obama lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid... who hit the trough hard, while bickering like children.

And the lack of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically… this legislation now looks to be a HUGE gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains, the Democrats face a bloodbath in 2010.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com

tonypal| 7.20.09 @ 9:53PM

Ok, so Obama is plummeting in the polls. This was entirely predictable, given his non-existent experience with governance, coupled with his insane agenda. He will probably be in the 40's within the next 2-3 months and just today backtracked on his push to get healthcare by the end of August. In fact, it is entirely possible he will be a lame duck president by this time next year, even before the midterm elections.

So what does it all mean if republicans aren't prepared to fill the vacuum? The problem is that there's no evidence the GOP is up to the job. Maybe we win back the House in 2010 and recapture some Senate seats, but it will all be for naught if we get the same old republicans who are more interested in being politicians instead of being conservative leaders.

Smitty| 7.20.09 @ 11:14PM

I wouldn't count the Chicago thug in chief out yet--we still have a long way to go.

Mike Lee| 7.22.09 @ 4:01PM

I am surprised that people are surprised. We have elected the least experienced, least qualified, furthest left leaning President in our history. What did people expect?