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Thanks Be to Obama

By Doug Bandow on 10.24.09 @ 11:56AM

He's succeeded in the almost impossible task of making incompetent, unprincipled Republican politicians more popular than their Democratic counterparts.

According to Rasmussen Reports:

For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them.

Republicans have nearly doubled their lead over Democrats on economic issues to 49% to 35%, after leading by eight points in September.

The GOP also holds a 54% to 31% advantage on national security issues and a 50% to 31% lead on the handling of the war in Iraq.

And that's just after nine months. Give the president a couple of years and see what happens!

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).