Posted on 10/28/2010 4:57:58 PM PDT by MissesBush
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, rapped by the White House for pledging to make Barack Obama a one-term president, seems to have the support of a majority of Americans. A new poll provided to Whispers says that 56 percent of likely voters want the president fired.
According to pollster Doug Schoen, whose new poll shows vast support for the Tea Party movement among voters, the president is still liked by about half the nation. In fact, more like him personally than like his policies. Some 48 percent think he's a nice guy, while just 42 percent approve of his job performance.
But that personal favorability doesn't translate into re-election support when voters are asked if Obama deserves a second term. Says Schoen: "Despite voters feelings toward Obama personally, 56 percent say he does not deserve to be re-elected, while 38 percent say he does deserve to be re-elected president." Worse, Schoen adds, "43 percent say that Barack Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush, while 48 percent say Bush was a better president than Obama has been."
[See a photo gallery of Bush's legacy.]
Still, the president has a shot at re-election, according to the poll of 1,000 likely voters taken October 18-24. Schoen found that a slight majority, 51 percent, favor a third party in American politics and if that were the Tea Party, then Obama would win in a three-way race in 2012. According to Schoen, if the race pitted Obama, Republican Mitt Romney and Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin in 2012, Obama would top the others with 40 percent; Romney gets 32 percent and Palin 17 percent. And, in a bit of bad news for Palin, if the Tea Party candidate were Mike Huckabee, he and Romney would split the non-Obama vote 24 percent-24 percent.
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Other highlights in Schoen's poll presentation:
-- 54 percent say the Tea Party has been a good thing for American politics.
-- Voters favor Republicans over Democrats on a generic ballot 48 percent to 39 percent.
-- The Democratic attack on special interest money helping Republicans isn't having much of an impact.
I want him gone by the end of 2010.
Epic date rape would be more accurate.Most Dems will tell you that they never wanted the change that’s been forced upon all of us.
The only reason responders to the poll said they still liked Obama personally, that he was a nice man, is that they were afraid of being called racists.
I can’t see Obama winning any 2-way matchup in 012.
His one shot is finding (and having Soros bankroll) the right “independent” candidate to split the opposition and give Baraq a Clintonian plurality win.
This of course assumes he doesn’t lose to Hillary! in the primaries.
If 48% still think he’s a nice guy, they’re either lying or they still just don’t get it. They don’t get that zero hates America. If they did, they’d know he’s anything BUT a nice guy.
‘Fired’ is not harsh enough. I would prefer for Zero to be handed the tradional sentence of all cowardly traitors.
Nice guys finish last!
This is just their way of coping with the insinuation that they are racist if the don't support him. If you say you like him it removes the potential for the accusation.
That’s what I meant about “lying.”
Then we should send a firing squad for sure!
His one shot is finding (and having Soros bankroll) the right “independent” candidate to split the opposition and give Baraq a Clintonian plurality win.
Another scenario is billionaire Bloomberg running as an independent, with Sarah winning the R nomination, and Obama going for a 2nd term.
Who wins that one?
The rest want him fired now.
Well with all 3 of them having huge campaign budgets, we’d all likely go stark raving mad from the advertising overload, LOL.
I’m sure Bloomie’s huge ego would lead him to think he’s popular outside NY, but my feeling is he wouldn’t even do as well as Perot. My personal experience was that Perot got a lot of blue collar votes here in the midwest from folks who wouldn’t touch Bloomie with a ten foot pole.
You have to be correct. What is there that is likable about this haughty, racist poseur?
Hilbot will resign after the first of the year. She is gearing up. That’s why she is a no-show during this election cycle.
You have to be correct. What is there that is likable about this haughty, racist poseur?
Funny thing happened with hopey-changey. We don’t care anymore if we’re called racists. Let them. They look foolish. It’s the dems problem. This issue is is DEAD-DEAD-DEAD!
Finally racists and PC elitists are going the way of Carter. We’re done, finished with that rhetoric. Go ahead, label us. We don’t care anymore. It’s YOUR problem. Juan was the icing on the cake.
I want the loser Epic Fail president nobama frogmarched in an orange jumpsuit to Leavenworth. One can dream...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, rapped by the White House for pledging to make Barack Obama a one-term president, seems to have the support of a majority of Americans. A new poll provided to Whispers says that 56 percent of likely voters want the president fired.
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