Posted on 01/26/2014 8:37:12 AM PST by Hojczyk
Before you talk about poll responses, you have to be sure you know what the question was. Harris’s first question was: “At the end of the month, President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union to the American people. How would you rate the current state of the country?” The results:
Excellent: 3% Good: 17% Fair: 44% Poor: 36%
These results are dismal: 20% positive, and 80% negative. That is grim; Americans think the country in terrible shape. So, does that mean that people will be tuning in to Obama’s State of the Union speech in search of hope and guidance? No. Harris finds that only 28% of respondents intend to watch the broadcast. 32% won’t touch it with a stick, and the remaining 40% are “maybes,” but I’m pretty sure nearly all of them will decide to tune out. Hardly anyone believes that after five years of failure, Barack Obama still has something important to offer.
Americans’ pessimism about their country stretches across the board. Harris asked, “How would you rate how well the following issues are going in the country?” Again, here are the results. “Positive” means either excellent or “pretty good,” “Negative” means either “only fair” or poor:
Environment: 34% positive, 61% negative. Education: 29% positive, 67% negative. Health Care: 25% positive, 71% negative. The Economy: 23% positive, 74% negative. Jobs: 20% positive, 78% negative. Immigration: 16% positive, 75% negative.
These data show that Americans are profoundly unhappy with the state of their country. Pessimism is not the natural state of most Americans, but today, pessimism plainly reigns, especially with regard to the economy and jobs, always the Obama administration’s Achilles heels. And note that immigration won’t save the day:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
also from the article
And note that immigration won’t save the day: more unpopular than anything else with Americans is the status quo, where immigration laws are not enforced, millions of illegals live openly in the U.S. without any threat of deportation, and the country’s establishment has nothing to suggest other than importing tens of millions more unskilled workers to drive down the wages of America’s reeling working class.
And well they should be.
The intelligent ones will take meaningful action.
The rest will continue to sink into decadence.
Duh! not duh? DUH!
Good: 17%
Fair: 44%
Poor: 36%
These results are dismal: 20% positive, and 80% negative.
The thing is, Obama/media will see this poll as only 36% of people think the economy is doing bad and will somehow link that number to the TEA Party and FOX viewers
I had better stock up on booze today...
Anything Barry says during his big SOTU Show isn’t going to change that. He may get a few standing “O”s from his commie comrades when he regurgitates his now infamous, “I’ve got a pen. I’ve got a phone and I’ve got a race card. I don’t need no steenkin’ Congress! Period!” line.
Well we better cheer up or we’ll be getting some of those Routine FBI Investigations like D’Souza.
Why bother his State of the Union speeches are nothing more than mowing sand.
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Why would I watch the SOTU? I already know what he’s going to say. He’s going to give us his laundry list of what those “Damned Republicans” are supposed to do, otherwise they’re Raciss.
We all know what the state of the Union is. Get rid of Obama and we might have some real good news again. I’d watch but have to clean the cat litter.
Obama should repeat the words of his predecessor — “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Wouldn’t surprise me at all if they did get another rousing applause twelve years later.
(Sigh)
Don’t worry, after the speech, polls will show that Obama changed the views to 100% positive!
The more intelligent and moral ones would be building their own homes and producing useful things, if such activities weren’t illegal in most locales.
State of the Union - Chicago
I was talking ‘bout the state of the union
How there’s no one now in power thinking of me
I was saying how we ought to try to fix it
Find a leader who is not afraid to be
Then a voice came out of the darkness
Saying “Tear the system down”
Tear it down
I was thinking ‘bout how that was very crazy
And I tried to find a way to tell him so
But when I did I used a word that was quite nasty
How the policeman heard me man I’ll never know
Then a voice came out of the darkness
Saying “Tear the system down”
Tear it downdown to the ground
I was wrestled of to one side of the theater
And they said I’d have to go right to jail
They don’t permit coarse language in their city
But they did accept a large amount of bail
Then a voice came out of the darkness
Saying “Tear the system down”
Tear it downdown to the ground
THAT’S RACIST!!!!
The intelligent will bide their time, watching and waiting for the right opportunity...
The time will come.
The time will come.
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