Posted on 12/22/2012 6:34:40 AM PST by Cheerio
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama's job approval soared to a three-year high as of Tuesday night, according to the Gallup poll, hitting 56 percent for the first time since the fall of 2009.
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I want a cell phone & free service
I want a free place to live.
I want free food.
I want free medical services.
I want a monthly check for sitting on my ass all day.
Thank you Obama Clause.
FDR was elected over and over and over again regardless of how poorly he did fixing the economy (in fact everything FDR did made things worse).
Which is why a constitutional amendment was passed to prevent such a situation from ever happening again.
Oh, I don't doubt it, either. About 5-10% of it is the "everyone loves a winner" phenomenon.
But I believe that there is a fiscal abyss beyond the fiscal cliff, and even if the first is avoided, there is no way to avoid falling into the second.
It needs to get like Argentina before something good will happen. The only realistic good outcome IMO is a coup with a leader that understands and promotes free market principles. The worst type of tyranny is the Leftist / communist tyranny because wealth is always destroyed through income re-distribution and central control.
Let’s go over the ‘cliff’, let the economy tank, and see if zero completely breaks the last remaining constitutional firewalls. Let’s see if he will go around the debt ceiling, confiscate guns, and create other illegal laws via EOs and regulation.
I agree with you completely. I also blame the GOP for not taking a principled stand that would at least slow the balls swing to the far left.
Agreed. The GOP is rudderless. The position of Speaker requires leadership. Leadership requires taking a position on confrontational issues. These issues should represent the position of your base.
The GOP should be an alternative to the Democratic Party. What is the difference between the two parties?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m tired of constant crisis. A defiant third party is the only answer.
he must be on vacation
Who do they ask?
The position of the ‘non-left’, and that's how I prefer to think of us, is actually the most populist position, but we have done an extremely poor job of making this clear. The left is a special interest coalition. I share conservative positions on most things, but I think it is a big mistake letting ourselves be labeled as just ‘conservatives’. I think we should characterize ourselves as the coalition of normal people against the radical ways of those on the left - who are the fringe of society.
Most of the population thinks that the people in Hollywood are generally crazy, thus it is not impossible - and actually probably not that difficult - to marginalize the opinions of the Hollywood elite. Most people don't think that academics have a practical and/or workable real-world view of how to get things done etc. That makes that part of the left’s coalition also very vulnerable. The list goes on and on.
We, on the other hand, have let ourselves be minimized and pigeon-holed as the fringe right, and ‘conservative’ has become a code word for cultist religiosity, social intolerance, entrenched ignorance, and resistance against human progress. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but this is indeed how the left has successfully characterized us to a significant swath of the overall population. This can be fixed, but will require fresh thinking and an all out effort to point out to the public just how marginal the left is, and how hugely hypocritical it is.
The election shows that 50% of the people will buy into this President. The other 6% is voter fraud.
In a way you're right. After Roosevelt won reelection with 523 our of 535 electoral votes, people weren't going to complain about how the economy was doing. Roosevelt was insulated from criticism because voters just couldn't take Hoover and the Republicans any longer. They just assumed they were better off with FDR, that he'd given them everything, and didn't demand as much from him as they did from other leaders.
There's also some Bill Clinton in the present situation. If a president can turn a funeral or a natural disaster into an "I care" moment, it can do a lot for his standing in the polls. I don't think most Americans regard Obama as their family's savior as they did FDR, but right now the Clintonesque style, which supporters regard as being empathic and opponents consider narcissistic, is working for Obama.
The difference from Clinton is that the economy was actually doing well in the Clinton years. The difference from Roosevelt is that FDR didn't quite have the press in his corner or back pocket. The old chestnut about reporters being Democrat and publishers being Republican was actually true in the 1930s, and a lot of newspapers that are now Democrat, were still solidly Republican in the Thirties, at least as far as editorial endorsements went.
Pass the KOOL-AID please.....
And then people will hate Republicans even more.
If you think Obama is going to get blamed for this, you're wrong. Don't worry though. Democrats will ride to the rescue with "tax cuts" for the middle class which the Republicans will be forced to support (and there will probably be an assault weapons ban attached to this bill as well).
Formerly reliable pollster Scott Rasmussen.
brilliant...
I fear this country will never be the same. Low information voters are now in control, and will probably stay so. From now on the vote will go to celebrity candidates who are cool.
The movie Idiocracy has become reality.
Response: If true there is a death wish permeating the land.
In revolutionary times of the 18th century, 1/3 of the population were Brit loyalists, 1/3 didn’t care one way or other and 1/3 were revolutionaries.
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