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The Spectacle Blog
A new Quinnipiac poll taken in the political bellwether state of Ohio shows that President Obama's disapproval rating has jumped to 50 percent, with just 45 percent of voters approving of the job he's doing. In September, he had a positive approval rating of 53 percent to 42 percent. More:
Ohio voters disapprove 53 - 42 percent of the way the President is handling the economy and disapprove 57 - 36 percent of the way he is handling health care. In September, they approved of his handling of the economy 48 - 46 percent and split on his handling of health care 44 - 45 percent....
"Ohio voters are not happy with the President's handling of health care and the economy. The fact that they now are split whether he or the Republicans in Congress are better able to handle health care should be a very worrisome number at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since the GOP is still pretty much a four-letter word in most of America," [said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.]
The poll also shows Republican Rob Portman leading his potential Democratic opponents in the 2010 Senate race.
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martin j smith| 11.12.09 @ 4:01PM
So tell me: what disapproval level would it take for the Democrats ( so called ) and Obama to get it or--will there be a socialist Coup ? Takeover and no elections in 201o or 2012 or will they rig the vote so well that it will amount to the same thing ? This is all so surreal.
Tim| 11.12.09 @ 4:31PM
Ohio is a well known racist hot spot.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.12.09 @ 4:54PM
Sonofagun...the "golly-gee" State, (Ohio),has finally figured it out?
Johnny Carson would spend months joking about that....with one ear-flap on his Ohio hat flipped up.
Martin,
The communists are counting on it.
Texas is a pretty wonderful place to live these days, and coming days. We shall not stand for the nonsense. We might just "accidentally" turn off all the diesel, fuel oil, and gasoline, and natural gas pipelines to the east and mid-west. Let's see if Obama's' gangsta boys can keep those thousands of miles of pipelines open.
How many frozen voters can get to the polls in those States?
Even their fake votes cannot be tabulated if their post office trucks are parked.
Mr. Obama and crew have never had to deal with Texans yet.......
We have a bunch of crazy Christian "good guys" down here who will not kneel to tyranny.
...Stock up on fuel...kerosene lanterns in a small small space are best.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.12.09 @ 5:26PM
(Lord, I am going on all the communists' lists.)
Look, folks, I am feeling like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke. I am trying my best to keep my pipeline friends...from freezing your hineys in the dark!
80% of ALL your fuels,
(AND ELECTRICITY FUELS), go in 5 pipelines from Texas and Oklahoma....and trucks from same.
Without those fuels, you folks will freeeeeeeeeze!
Obama and crew will be warm...emergency supplies. YOUR FAMILY COULD FREEZE... TO...DEATH!
Now get serious, people!
Obama and his communists...and maybe muslim brothers can shoot you or put you in a concentration camp...duh "gulag".
...Four or five "pithed off" pipeline hands or refinery hands can freeze your entire family to death.
...who yah gonna' fear most?
bottom line, most Americans don't look beyond their nose. .....Never had to, the idiots!
...All I have to do is "remove my finger" from the dyke. ...........killing cold winter on the way.
Thousands of Texans ...naw...hundreds of thousands of Texans and Oklahomans...will cheer when the pipelines and tanker trucks go up in smoke.
You have a choice, America!
The so-called liberals here on this site owe their computer keyboard...to us. We provide the "juice".
Mr. Obama and crew, watch your wimpy wishy washy "votes" disappear this winter.
God bless America! We are sorry you voted in a would-be dictator.
All the trolls here will freeze to death...with a dead keyboard.
God bless you too.
Pete2| 11.12.09 @ 8:35PM
Yo, old texican, a lot of us old yankees up here in Vermont won't freeze because we have wood stoves but the yuppies in town sure will feel the chill. We also have our guns ( our constitution recognizes our right to bear arms for defense of self and hunting). We've had to survive the socilaists for 20 years now, so us conservatives up here are quite used to the conditions. Can't say the same for all those imports who rely on that guvmint check each month or the other handouts. From the First Republic to the Third ( the USA is in between)... we're with you.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.12.09 @ 11:43PM
Pete2
Of course you are with us. You will do fine. Except the whack jobs moving in on you will get hungry sooner than later.
Be prepared.
Tim| 11.13.09 @ 9:36AM
Ken, STFU up we'll cut off all maple syrup shipments to Texas.
That sound you hear is Ken shaking in his cowboy boots...
Pete2| 11.13.09 @ 5:29PM
I have my own maple grove, so Ken has no worry, but you might.
Ran / Si Vis Pacem| 11.12.09 @ 7:40PM
I second the findings from my view here in central Ohio. Consistent with the ground activity. Michigan is "next door" - and "next door" doesn't look good. Senator [R]inovich notwithstanding, Ohioans look to Texas as a more successful model.
Kasich, too, finds growing support vs. Gov. Strickland. Ted Strickland enjoys more Second Amendment support, a factor hurting Kasich.
The test will be in whether grass-roots libertarians and conservatives can take-back the self-satisfied, creaky liberal-rotted machinery of local Republican outfits.