Posted on 08/03/2010 10:00:56 AM PDT by Smogger
But you’ll have a hell of a time finding it at either USA Today or at Gallup, which partnered with the newspaper for the poll. The USA Today lead on the survey is that approval for the war in Afghanistan has dropped since the Wikileaks exposure of internal documents from the military, and that decline is notable, a 12-point plummet in just five months from 48% to 36% approval. But they buried the real lead, which is that Obama is now struggling to keep his approval ratings in the 40s (via Jim Geraghty):
"Public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. Support for Obama’s management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001."
Meanwhile, in the fifth paragraph:
"Only 41% of those surveyed Tuesday through Sunday approved of the way Obama is handling his job, his lowest rating in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll since he took office in January 2009. In Gallup’s separate daily tracking poll, his approval was at 45% Monday."
That’s still better than Gallup, which reports this in the final paragraph before the conclusion.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
So, finally Americans are figuring out that Mr. Obama couldn’t run a 7-Eleven.
I wonder how much Obama buyer’s remorse is really out there?
they might be waking up that this man has not even ran a hot dog stand and now is way out of his depth being the Soros puppet he is.
He is a fraud and a puppet of Soros
If anyone think Soros is not running this country then they need their head testing.
59% of this country is just to racist to understand a man like Obama.
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41% of this country is STUCK ON STUPID.
Voters on the dole and female baby-boomers who put pets on the same level as children will NEVER smarten up.
The more people I talk to that voted for him admit that they made one big mistake. It’s not that they say they could have done better but they made a huge mistake. I would bet that his approval rate will hit 35% or lower by October.
From HotAir’s analysis :
“ The news on Obama’s approval rating gets worse when one considers the sampling.
Gallup surveyed 1200 adults in the general population,
not registered or likely voters, a sampling technique that should be more sympathetic to Obama, not less.
Either the Left is abandoning Obama
or his decline is picking up steam — or both.
Obama is heading for Bush territory in job approval, which took Bush more than five years to reach.”
They will not be able to hide it for long, it is on Real Clear Politics
Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread
RCP Average 7/13 - 8/2 — 44.9 49.9 -5.0
USA Today/Gallup 7/27 - 8/1 1208 A 41 53 -12
Rasmussen Reports 7/31 - 8/2 1500 LV 46 53 -7
Gallup 7/30 - 8/1 1547 A 45 47 -2
FOX News 7/27 - 7/28 900 RV 43 50 -7
Reuters/Ipsos 7/22 - 7/25 1075 A 48 48 Tie
CNN/Opinion Research 7/16 - 7/21 1018 A 47 50 -3
Quinnipiac 7/13 - 7/19 2181 RV 44 48 -4
Which took Bush five years and six years of daily Journolist MSM assault.
Wher is Code Pink? Where is Cindy Sheehan? Has the war ended without anyone knowing, or was it all anti-Republicanism as we all knew?
41% approve destroying American exceptionism.
These are his numbers, and that’s with the press loving him? Imagine if he had to swim upstream like Bush, he would have been a dead salmon stuck against a rock a long time ago.
that should reassure everyone that if Soros was so brilliant and all-powerful he would have chosen somebody who was actually competent to serve as his sock puppet.
The exceptionalism comment bugs ne.
The Prime Minister Of Britain came over on a commercial British Airlines jet. Michelle, his chef, his dog get their own private jets.
Now that’s exceptionalism.
Good that he doesn’t believe in it.
Have a look at the Imperial pose on the Drudge report today and you can understand why his approval is so low. He stinks, but thinks his shi- doesn’t.
they chose obama about 20 years ago infact I bet as soon as Ayers saw this young kid looking to fit in.
Ayers took him to Chicago and even his wife said he had to go to a black church i order to speak well in public
Biden was chosen because he’s an idiot and out of the loop and easily controlled.
Obama was chosen because he was brought up brainwashed, and then easily manipulated, remember on his first days signing EO’s and a media person asked what he was signing.
obama had no clue, there was silence and then a voice in the back shouted what obama was signing
watch it , it is quite an eye opener.
they chose obama about 20 years ago infact I bet as soon as Ayers saw this young kid looking to fit in.
Ayers took him to Chicago and even his wife said he had to go to a black church in order to speak well in public
Biden was chosen because he’s an idiot and out of the loop and easily controlled.
Obama was chosen because he was brought up brainwashed, and then easily manipulated, remember on his first days signing EO’s and a media person asked what he was signing.
obama had no clue, there was silence and then a voice in the back shouted what obama was signing
watch it , it is quite an eye opener.
said this yesterday to my wife.
One would think the war was over by the way the protests have stopped, the same happened under Clinton and his wars. SILENCE from the lefty slackers and the so called bias media.
On top of that look at the so called media which is not covering the story now they find out it was a homosexual which down loaded records and gave them to the lefty Soros website.
All because his homo lover finished with him and couldn’;t be a pansy out in the open
the so called media have stopped reporting
I hate you co called media
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