Okay. Whatever you say.
Posted on 01/25/2009 9:09:31 PM PST by Steelfish
After less than a week in office, Barack Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points
By DAVID GARDNER 26th January 2009
Barack Obama might have been in office for less than a week, but the euphoria is beginning to wane. The new President's approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest - although still impressive - 68 per cent.
Washington analysts said the scale of the drop in the Gallup poll underlines the immense challenges Mr Obama faces in trying to turn round the U.S.'s battered fortunes. He still remains vastly more popular than his predecessor George Bush - who left office with around 25 per cent approval.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Plunge, baby, plunge.
Okay. Whatever you say.
It will end up in the toilet, right?
15 points a week, so he’s got another 4 weeks until his approval rating is 8%. What will Olberman say then?
The announcement today of letting every state set their own automobile emission standards is sure to increase his popularity. Wait’ll auto prices go up 25% or 30% and you can’t buy fuel.
It’s an absurd number anyway.
You’ll never see a headline like that in the U.S. MSM.
ROFLMHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, no, no, the Daily Mail has the media terminology all wrong. Obama’s ratings haven’t “plunged,” they’ve merely “normalized.” Only Republican numbers “plunge,” “dive” or “freefall.”
LOL! With that sort of rapid plunge for O-Marxist born in Kenya - I am getting a tingle up my leg. ;-)
Any idea where Pelosi and Reid Congress is? They had about 10% last I looked. We really need to try to communicate our rage at the criminals in Washington. Especially the traitor RINOs.
DC politicians are worse than Madoff, rapists and child molesters at this point.
Someone in the NY Post web site said if Caroline Kennedy had become Senator that Son of Sam would have been able to beat her in the election. I almost choked I laughed so hard.
What is really sickening is the media attacked a decent and honest woman in Sarah Palin.
must....control....fist-pumping reaction....
Daily Mail is the best newspaper in the UK followed by the Daily Telegraph. I think the Barclay billionaire brothers own both papers.
Heavy sarcasm.
Does it really matter?
I’ll make two long-term estimates here. By the end of March...he will be sitting at around 50 percent approval rating. And by September...it’ll be around 45 percent. At that point, he will level off. The group of independents who simply refused to vote for McCain, and turned to Obama...will dump him by late spring.
This is the harsh reality of being a president today. The media is not your friend, and will eventually ask stupid questions. Take the recovery package. If anyone starts asking about all this educational grant money in there and why its five times the amount for roads and bridges...then the house of cards falls apart.
People are realizing they’ve elected the most leftwing President in history. Oops
“You mean the bloom is off the rose?”
More like the vent fan broke in the bathroom.
ROTFLMBO!!!!!
after the protectionism (even advocated here on this forum),
and the depression,
and a world war,
obama’s rating will drop even more.
It matters to me. I want to see him have a seizure on TV. Right in the middle of one of his fake rants, he starts foaming at the mouth and flopping around on the floor. I guarantee 50 million hits on Youtube.
Wrong. The last Gallup poll before Bush left office had him in the mid 30s.
Just wait until the February mortgage and car payments come due and Obama hasn’t sent the check yet.
The Dallas ISD underestimated its costs by $81 million dollars and had to let a lot of old and new teachers go. Managerial incompetance is widespread in American education, high and low. Now Obama are going to reward it.
Obama will leave office with an approval rating even lower than that. Probably much lower.
Why would you want to give him the ratings? At this point he has six or seven people who view him with any regularity. I'm not one of them.
I guess white male construction workers don’t like being shoved under the bus...
You’re not following me. I want to see him stroke out. Who cares what his ratings are if he croaks?
pssst....dont look now, but rasmussen has him down to 60 percent....next stop, 55
Yes,....but look at the high quality of their product..../s!
We build things people want and need. Piss ants like Robert Reich(I'm sure I spelled that wrong) and Obama destroy what we do.
Right. You see the headline on FR and think, "Must be a UK paper." Sure enough, it is.
On the other hand, it is child's play to find Bush's approval ratings plunging like crazy in MSM headlines.
Easy there. It would be better to see him in a Straight jacket.
What an excellent analogy...
Yeah, but he already needs to be in a straightjacket, and he’s not.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113770/Bush-Presidency-Closes-34-Approval-61-Disapproval.aspx
You’re right - it was 34%, not the 25% the author wrote about/made up.
His ratings never were 83% unless they polled the newsrooms?
Pray for America
I think you’ve got that backwards -
Let them issue their own standards. Those states silly enough to go on some whackjob tangent will suffer accordingly. Let the most sensible win.
Why should the Federal Government be in that air standards business anyway ?
In the big picture Olberman is a pimple who isn't fit to lick my shoe sole. Why waste your time on him?
and it will keep going down. That is my prediction.
I just seem to enjoy hating him. He doesn’t even seem to realize that even the leftards who watch him know he’s nuts. He was the same as a sportscaster, even the other sportscasters laughed at him to his face and he didn’t get it. He’s the perfect example of liberal cluelessness.
I can't fault you for that. For myself I find hate a dangerous emotion that can cloud my judgement. I try not to indulge in it when possible.
I don’t think anything could cloud my judgement of KO.
Well, that all despends on...
He is a jerk. No question. Juat don't lower yourself to his level. We are better than him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.