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President Obama's Poll Ratings Underwater

By Doug Bandow on 2.9.10 @ 8:20AM

The latest Marist Poll has bad news for the president. Reports the New York Daily News:

President Obama's job approval rating has taken another dive, putting him underwater for the first time in the latest Marist poll.

Just 44% of the country approve of the work Obama is doing, while 47% don't like what they see.

The tough reviews come as Americans still find the commander in chief likable, with 50% rating him favorably, and 44% viewing him negatively.

And they still blame former President George W. Bush for the dismal economy.

Only 29% of voters say the poor economy is Obama's fault; 62% agree that Bush left the problem on Obama's desk.

"With this part of voters' mind-set, it's no wonder the White House would like to make 2010 a choice between President Obama and past GOP policies," said Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Still, people think Obama's policies are not change they can believe in.

Forty-seven percent of voters say Obama has not lived up to their expectations, with just 42% saying he has.

A narrow plurality - 38% - think Obama's change has been bad, and 37% think it's been good.

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Liberal Reader| 2.9.10 @ 10:15AM

I think we are gonna need a bigger boat.

Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.10 @ 10:21AM

Has ANYONE here EVER been called in a presidential approval poll?

I certainly have not.

If I were, I would be very careful with my responses.
I advise same for each of you.

See, I truly can't believe 40% plus of sentient adults in this country still have the blinders...or hammer and sickle scarves on.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 11:00AM

Hey, Ken, I see you still don't look at the numbers. Reagan's job approval went down to 35% in 1983. Do your homework.... People vote their pocketbooks. The economy is turning around, albeit slow, and people will like Obama more (just like Reagan), when jobs start returning. It won't be fast enough for the elections later this year (again like Reagan), but it will by 2012 when your hand reading Sarah is the Republican nominee.

Why would you be careful with your responses? It was Bush/Cheney that monitored your phone calls.

Grzmlyk| 2.9.10 @ 11:28AM

I guess you delusional empty suits have to stick together. But then your suit-wearing days are over, aren't they?

Pity your facility doesn't offer needlepoint, Bob. I think you'd be good at it. I guess they'd rather have you banging away at a keyboard, bravely prosecuting your war on Amspec denizens, than coming into contact with any potential weapons.

Sarah Palin dead drunk, on her worst day, is still a vastly superior human being to you. And wiser, to boot. I wouldn't trust you to walk my kid across the street. Or run my nephew's lemonade stand.

Yes, I know you were elected Lord High Mayor of your mental ward, but that's only because the "Duke of Wellington," your roommate, voted several times. That's not cricket, Bob.

Oh well. You're still CFO of Neverland, aren't you? They can't take that away from you.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 1:41PM

Gee, Grzmlyk, you seem to know a lot about mental facilities. I hear that yours offers free diapers and bibs. I'm glad you like it there.

So what is it you like about Sarah? Her ability to write on her hand? Her lack of knowledge? The fact she is a quitter? The fact she wants to go to war with Iran even though we have no troops to do it? Perhaps it is her command of English? Was Tancredo talking about her in his opening speech? If you didn't lose IQ points listening to her talk to Chris Wallace, you must already be in the low two digits. Was Rush talking about Sarah when he mentioned "retards" 14 times?

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 2:40PM

3/5 Bob,

Nice democrat talking points.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 3:22PM

1/5 Nick,

What do you expect from a RINO like me? They are nice talking points because they are factual. I'd like to hear her DETAILED views on reducing entitlements. Too bad she has NO detailed views -- just rhetoric.... Hmmmm..... Do you remember during the debate she called Biden "O'Biden"? Perhaps if she wrote his name down on her hand she could have referred to it.

SoCon| 2.9.10 @ 3:32PM

Bob, you're still bleating your "I HATE SARAH PALIN" nonsense while merrily riding along on Obama's 'Corpseman' Titanic.

What, me worry?

Silly old man, you look sillier every day.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 3:46PM

Hey, SoCon, still using facts, knowledge and logic for your posts, I see.... When does the thinking start????

By the way, I don't hate Sarah -- she's a nice, dumb, lady.... and so are the people who like her...

danfromatlanta| 2.9.10 @ 4:19PM

I would put money on her winning IQ and general knowledge tests against you Bob. She's a hell of a lot smarter than ANY liberal, and she's gorgeous as well! Sorry Bob, you libs just can't compete with a winner like Sarah!

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 3:47PM

3/5 Bob,

And yet, with ONE Facebook post, she drove a stake through the heart of ObamaCare!

Remember "Death panels", 3/5 Bob? That one really got you bleeding hearts apoplectic, did it not?

Mrs. Palin is like a piece of steel. The harder you liberal perverts hit her, the stronger she becomes!

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 3:48PM

It just shows you how dumb her supporters are.... Right, 1/5 Nick?

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 3:52PM

I thought you were against ObamaCare, 3/5 Bob?

Doesn't that also make you DUMB?

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 4:11PM

She doesn't like it because of the nonsense that it is a "government takeover". I don't like it because it won't save money or cut entitlements. Besides, the public option will end up raising rates. I'd like to hear her ideas on health care.... That's right, she doesn't have any except for "tort reform".... That was original...

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 4:16PM

And yet, who had more influence on the health insurance debate?

The former governor of Alaska?

Or the loser who thought (until last June) that blacks had 3/5 of a vote under the constitution?

You are so full of envy, your eyes must be green. Right, 3/5 Bob?

Nobama| 2.9.10 @ 11:57PM

Sorry, Nick, Bob's eyes are brown because he's full of sh!t.

Grzmlyk| 2.9.10 @ 3:36PM

Yup. All of the above.

Compared to you she's a paragon of perspicacity and the epitome of decency.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 3:44PM

You're right, she's has strong mental acuity. Her great knowledge of foreign policy comes from being able to see Russia from her house....

You are funny.....

Grzmlyk| 2.9.10 @ 3:58PM

Yes, I am funny. That's the first time you've been right since your trolling days began.

You can't see me, but I'm virtually patting you on the head.

In your eminent obtuseness, you are missing the point. All of my acolades for Sarah Palin are in comparison to YOU.

She ain't no intellectual. THANK GOD. "Intellectuals" - and I'm certain you think of yourself as one - are more responsible for the depredations that have been visited on this country in the last 100 years than all the idiots, buffoons, whack jobs and pretenders combined.

By the way, Obama is a perfect example of what the left holds up as an "intellectual" - an utterly empty suit, a callow, doctrinaire, angry, arrogant idot, buffoon, whack job and pretender all rolled into one.

With intellectuals like Obama, who needs idiots? And with "economists" like you, who needs inept poltroons?

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 4:19PM

Yeah, with intellectuals like Bill Gates, and the Google guys, where would we be....

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 4:09PM

That was Tina Fey, 3/5 Bob. What a marooon!

Is that how you "learned" blacks had 3/5 of a vote? From SNL?

You must believe Jimmy Carter talked a kid down from an acid trip, huh?

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 4:14PM

Of course it was Tina, 1/5 Nick. She did say, however, that she understood foreign policy because you can see Russia from Alaska. Here she is in all of her retarded glory....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXL86v8NoGk

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 4:30PM

Oh, poor green-eyed 3/5 Bob,

That is not what she was saying.

Her point was that because Alaska is situated between two nations, Russia and Canada, as governor she had more foreign policy experience than President Dither (then Senator Dither).

She has more foreign policy experience than you, too, 3/5 Bob.

SoCon| 2.10.10 @ 12:00AM

Of course you knew Tina Fey made that statement, Bob--sure you did. Nice try, though.

Crazy old man, put a sock in it.

danfromatlanta| 2.9.10 @ 4:02PM

Hey Bob,
I see you still don't look at numbers either, ... Do you think our economy is turning around? Do you think the highest unemployment since the Great Depression is getting better? Do you think ANYTHING under the obamanation is gettiong better? If you do, I suggest you are the one ignorant about the "numbers". And by the way, if you think Bush was monitoring Ken's phone calls, then you must think he was having conversations with terrorists overseas. Is that what you think? If not, you owe him an apology for the insinuation, and you owe the rest of us the courtesy of shutting up until you have something intelligent to say.

Bob| 2.9.10 @ 4:18PM

Hey, Dan, I guess you don't understand the concept of GDP and lagging unemployment. Did you know that most of the unemployment came during the last part of Bush and the first 3 months of Obama? Do you know how to count? (Hint: use your fingers and toes).

By the way, Bush was also monitoring domestic calls. Funny thing is that I think that was a good idea. If you knew anything about computational fuzzy search methodologies, you'd understand why.