Posted on 10/28/2009 6:43:10 AM PDT by Kartographer
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
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When he finally announces his Afghan strategy, these numbers will get worse.
Good points, and don’t forget NY23.
This phenomenon has one cause, and that is that liberalism, with Obama's election, has gone from vague platitudes to actually being put into practice, and the people are discovering that everything conservatives said about liberalism is true.
Notice the trend on the last chart. Using the 10 day moving average, the trend on overall approval and disapproval seems to be slowly spreading in the correct direction.
The other thing highlighted in the article that I like: Eighty-five percent (85%) trust their own judgment more than reporters and 53% say the average reporter is more liberal than they are.
The last major stint in the negative double digits, it was 6 days double-negative, a reprieve of one day, and then back to double-negative for three days. This time is different - the first span of dbl-neg increased to 7 days; then the 1 day reprieve (-9 in both cases); and now five days of dbl-neg... and counting!
Right where it should be. Now get the total approve down and the prez is dead in the water.
Waiting to see a violation of -14, then the fun begins. Looking at this chart it is really hard to tell where support for the bammies is below -14. Could get real ugly, real fast. A man with no known personal history, judged exclusively on his media manufactured likability, will then have to build a coalition among his key supporters (unions, gays, racists, and dem flunkies) to effectively govern. Back to his lack of history, nowhere in his past has this man brought together disparate groups in a unified action of any kind - he has merely played on the predictable prejudices of his core supporters. Short: he preaches to the choir. I don’t see any deep resevoir of empathy for him with the America public. I’m pretty sure the public does not trust him. Not a pretty picture folks.
Yep, just the guy to try to sign away US Sovereignty in Copenhagen.
A Conservative victory in NY23 will say that “The paradigm has shifted”. It will say that a movement is afoot, with real leadership, and the Rinos that enabled 0’s ascendance to office are close to being irrelevant.
IOW, he’ll no longer dealing with McCain et al and the SRM. He’ll be dealing with us.
For an example of a Socialist who got elected because they were opposed by an inept Rino, and now facing the voters, check out the uh, Mayor of Tulsa, OK:
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=11392169
The comments are fun.
He may sign it, but we are under no obligation to fund it or follow it. There are a whole lot of treaty’s we have signed that weren’t worth the paper they were printed on. For instance: we are signatories to NATO, but it is a real question whether we or any other signatory will actually go to war to support another threatened signatory country. If you ask me right now would Western Europe pony up if Ukraine is threatened or invaded - I’d say no. Its Europe, Sam, its Europe - its just the way it is. (Bad parody of China Town). So he signs his global warming treaty - then he has to enforce it. He is at -14 now, give him a year of enforcement and he will be at -35, with he and his party looking for work. Once again, liberal ideas sound great at cocktail parties but are a misery to live with. Politicians, regardless of stripe, like to be liked.
Given this, I can't wait to see Barry's approval number that is based solely on sentiment after Lieberman announced he will filibuster a gov takeover of health care. I think Friday's number will exclude polling taken before Lieberman dropped the "F" bomb.
Lieberman is probably not our cup of tea, but I do believe a whole hell of a lot of northeast elderly listen to him and trust him. I think his statements will carry with this demographic. His comments might be just the thing to take bammy down below -14.
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