Posted on 10/25/2010 12:33:14 PM PDT by kristinn
President Obama is spending the next week crisscrossing the country in support of Democratic candidates before this year's midterm elections. While the president may do a great job of energizing the base, he may not be able to convert any Independents who have yet to decide for whom they will vote. Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion. This continues the president's downward trend and he is now at the lowest job approval rating of his presidency.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 3,084 adults surveyed online between October 11 and 18, 2010 by Harris Interactive.
It's perhaps not surprising that nine in ten Republicans (90%) and Conservatives (89%) give the job the president is doing negative ratings. What may be surprising is that one-third of Democrats (34%) and Liberals (33%) also give him negative ratings, as do seven in ten Independents (70%) and six in ten Moderates (60%).
Americans who give the president the highest positive ratings are those with a post-graduate education (48%), a college education (47%), and those living in the West (42%). On the other end of the spectrum, almost three-quarters of those with a high school education or less (72%) and two thirds of Midwesterners (66%) and Southerners (66%) give the President negative marks on his overall job.
While the president is at a low point, there is a political body with ratings much lower than his. Just one in ten Americans (11%) give Congress positive ratings on the job they are doing while nine in ten (89%) give them negative marks. While Congress may be under Democratic control, even four in five Democrats (81%) give them negative ratings.
Part of this negativity may have to do with the way Americans believe the country as a whole is going. Just one-third of U.S. adults (34%) say the country is going in the right direction while two-thirds (66%) say it is going off on the wrong track. While not close to the low it was before the 2008 election (11% said things were going in the right direction), this is one of the lower points of this year.
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>Yeah, that’s pretty dumb. The reason it’s dumb is because if we don’t re-take the Senate this year, we’ll re-take it in 2012.<
haven’t you gotten the memo from the “progressives” the TEA party is a fad that will fade away.
He needs to play more B-Ball and hang with Tiger Woods a little more often to get his American numbers up. If he had an affair, even a gay one, he could gain 5 points.
But, but, but Newsweak just said Obama had crossed the magical threshold of 54% approval!
I think some rats would rather have Typhoid Mary campaigning for them than zero.
He will get nasty, churlish — and violent. This man is not going down without resorting to any means necessary to maintain, and in fact, increase, his hold on power. I call it the Sampson Syndrome, as in, “I may die, but I’m taking the rest of you with me.”
But what they are forgetting is that racial quotas were legal in college admissions when Obama went to college.
Obama was only admitted because he was black, and once admitted was passed through only because he was black, and finally only graduated because he was black.
Remember Obama admitted himself to being in a cocaine induced haze through most of college... and yet he graduated from one of the most prestigious colleges in the US. That's affirmative action quotas at work.
Obama fails to realize that he is not campaigning against John McCain; when hundreds of thousands of Americans knew JM and didn’t like him, but had no information on BO, only that he was a .................(all the blanks filled in by the MSM).
It’s 2 years later - and many of BO’s voters have been smacked with a healthy dose of reality....that they were color blind-sided.
Limbo rock..
Barack, be Limbo! Barack, be quick!
Barack, go under Limbo stick!
All around the Limbo Club!
Hey, let’s do the Limbo Rock!
Ahahahou!
Limbo low now!
Limbo low now!
How low, can he go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkowBtwnHM
It's no time for overconfidence. That tsunami better be huge. If we don't take the Senate, we might have Schumer or Durbin for majority leader.
But you would think that having that education they would be smart enough to see through his BS.
I have always said that there are two kinds of smart, book smart and common sense.
Seems that it is too much to ask of so many graduates of higher education to have both.
DOH! See my post at #75 please!!
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