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Obama approval drops to new low over Border crisis
American Thinker ^ | August 2,2014 | By Thomas Lifson

Posted on 08/03/2014 7:13:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk

There is very bad news for President Obama and the Democrats in a new poll released last night by Investor’s Business Daily. John Merline writes:

President Obama's approval rating dropped to his lowest levels as the public hammers him on his handling of each of the major crises facing the country, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll, released on Friday.

The survey, taken the last week of July, found that only 38% of the public approves of the job Obama is doing as president, while 53% disapprove.

That's a 10-point negative swing in just the past month.

Breaking out the internals, it becomes clear that the Border Crisis is driving this sharp decline:

This drop comes despite the fact that personal outlooks and views on the economy and direction of the country have barely budged. Nor did the public's views on Obama's handling of the economy, the budget and jobs change noticeably.

But Obama got extremely low marks in his handling of every major crisis gripping the nation at home and abroad.

Just 25% say Obama is handling the border crisis well, while 56% blame his policies for encouraging the wave of illegal crossings by children and teens. Even among Democrats, only 46% say Obama is doing a good job, while less than a quarter (23%) of independents do.

Read the whole thing at Investors.com

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/080114-711594-support-for-obama-immigration-reform-obamacare-plunge.htm?p=full&fromcampaign=1

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: border; illegalaliens; illegalimmigrants; mexico; waronterror
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To: centurion316

The illegals should hurt the Cems because it is difficult to hide the invasion of our country from average Americans. Liberal women being ogled, raped, and robbed by these criminals won’t like it.


41 posted on 08/03/2014 8:35:58 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"I’d like to know why so many taxpayer dollars are being wasted on agencies that have anything to do with “immigration” or “homeland security”."

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Maybe redefining IMMIGRATION to include an influx of illegals is to bust up what a border means.

Homeland Security would be there just to facilitate busting up US borders.

YES, I'VE GOT MY TIN FOIL BEANIE ON!

This influx of illegals is happening too quickly and southern states have to fend for themselves because the federal government, charged with protecting borders, is doing just the opposite.

AMERICAN BORDERS OPEN TO ANYONE 24/7/365.

42 posted on 08/03/2014 8:37:08 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. Period IMHO.)
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To: hummingbird

Living here in NJ, I’ve always wondered why so many have been allowed through in such numbers for YEARS. We’ve had a de facto amnesty since they’ve arrived, and word seems to have gotten out all the way down to Tierra Del Fuego.


43 posted on 08/03/2014 8:37:50 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Flag_This; Hojczyk
"Obama approval drops to new low over Border crisis"

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And so what?

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I agree with "so what". If Obama could run for another term, he would probably win.

I think his poll could drop to 0% and there would be enough fools and "hate America first" types, etc. that would still vote for him.

44 posted on 08/03/2014 8:44:00 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. Period IMHO.)
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To: dowcaet; The Working Man; centurion316
Liberal moms sending their perfectly groomed and gifted children to local schools are learning their illegal classmates are carriers of diseases the US wiped out a generation ago b/c of mandatory inoculations. .......lice, scabies, TB, whooping cough, swine flu, meningitis are Third World diseases being carried here.

Uber-liberal Massachusetts erupted into a massive protest when they discovered gray-haired latino men were enrolling in their high schools claiming they were 17-yrs old and had no documentation.

School policy is to check w/ family---who said the man was a 35-year old adult.

No brainer here--- these are drug dealers looking to establish an in-house business---giving out free samples to get little Johnny addicted.

Could also be sex traffickers luring HS teens into the trade.

The deadly E-coli is also a threat---illegals traveling thousands of miles from Third World hovels are totally unfamiliar w/ proper sanitation habits.

E-coli comes from unclean bathroom habits---it has been found on the handles of supermarket carts..... so its no stretch that it can be found on school buses, on school equipment and in school cafeterias.

45 posted on 08/03/2014 8:45:13 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: I want the USA back; Hojczyk
Why would he care? He as fullfilled his mission to bring this country down to the lowest point it has ever been. When he gets out of office he will be treated like a king, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars for reading off a teleprompter.

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Yes.

How did our country get so away from us in a relatively short period of time given the very youth of America?

Where did we miss the beat, the clarion call, that we were on perilous ground?

And, now what are we going to do about it?

The enemies of the United States are not just from other countries. Look within.

46 posted on 08/03/2014 8:57:00 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. Period IMHO.)
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To: dowcaet
". A mom with children in an area where these illegal children are going to be housed won’t put up with that nonsense.

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MILLION MOM MARCHES throughout the US.

When will scabies, lice, chickenpox, TB.....Ebola....strike your neighborhool?

Events relating to illegal aliens/immigrants seem to be flowing so easily.

Why are these "children" (some already shave they are so old) dispersed around the country so quickly.

This has all been orchestrated, IMHO. Not unlike Saddam Hussein sending Iraqis into Kuwait to undermine Kuwait's society. To weaken them by using full-on Saddam Iraqis to stir up Kuwait's weaknesses.

47 posted on 08/03/2014 9:09:01 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. Period IMHO.)
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To: JW1949
It just amazes me that 38% of the American people still APPROVE of Obama.....

Well, there is the fixed 12% that will support him no matter what he does. And add to that the polling in Chicago that includes the "cemetery survey."

48 posted on 08/03/2014 9:18:04 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: The Working Man
"(Please pardon the coarse language.)"

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Sometimes it takes being blunt to get an idea across.

I live in Texas and weekly hear of illegals w/o licenses or insurance wiping out US motorists.

Rising rape and murder committed by illegals are only now beginning to be covered by Texas journalists.

Illegal are voting with help of the likes of ACORN.

Finally, Gov. Perry is taking actions the federal government should be handling to protect American borders.

These illegal "children" are supposed to show up in court to track them - 80 - 90% don't show - talk about shadows!

Illegals are not so much in the shadows - go to a convenience store in the morning and that's what illegal immigration looks like - clusters of men waiting to be picked up for day jobs.

Yell "La Migra" (immigration department, immigration officer) and you'll get a pretty idea who is here legally and who isn't.

US/America is Koyaanisqatsi. Life out of balance.

49 posted on 08/03/2014 9:25:29 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: Principled; centurion316
Liberal women have stayed steadfastly loyal to Obama through thick and thin, and they have responded well to the Administration’s pleas to take care of “the children” during the border crisis. That is about to change dramatically. As fears of disease and epidemic infection in schools take hold, the little safety moms who expect government to take care of their every need and desire will turn on this guy...

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Yes as school starts and kids get sick. Agree.

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If I had school age kids, I would definitely go the home school route.

Either that or gather a few moms and demand that all kids wear medical masks over their nose/mouths and wear surgical gloves. Maybe a full on surgical set up just for protection and to make a point.

If hospitals space hand sanitizers throughout their facilities, the schools should do the same.

Once antibiotic strains cross the border, they probably spread quickly and widely.

50 posted on 08/03/2014 9:37:23 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: kearnyirish2
"Living here in NJ, I’ve always wondered why so many have been allowed through in such numbers for YEARS. We’ve had a de facto amnesty since they’ve arrived, and word seems to have gotten out all the way down to Tierra Del Fuego."

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It is a madhouse.

51 posted on 08/03/2014 9:41:58 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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52 posted on 08/03/2014 9:42:20 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Hojczyk

38% of Americans are MORONS.


53 posted on 08/03/2014 9:56:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: centurion316

Nope.....the FREE stuff, places to live, Food Stamps, Free Phones, Free Birth Control and ABORTIONS will keep those vile women in the Democrat column for LIFE.


54 posted on 08/03/2014 9:58:47 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

His numbers are low now but will look like the “good old days” in a month when head lice infected illegal aliens go to schools in Democrat cities.


55 posted on 08/03/2014 10:03:56 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Hojczyk

Blacks and Hispanics together comprise 30% of the population.


56 posted on 08/03/2014 10:09:33 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> The survey, taken the last week of July, found that only 38% of the public approves of the job Obama is doing as president, while 53% disapprove.

related topic:

Obamacare Opposition Spikes To All Time High
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3188397/posts

> The pro-Obamacare health care nonprofit found that 53 percent of Americans view the health care law unfavorably right now, up from 45 percent in June.

and, from the FRchives:

Romney Told the Truth in That “47 Percent” Video
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2933772/posts

Only Journalists Offended by Romney’s “47 Percent” Remarks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2933789/posts

Recording of Romney’s 47 Percent Comments May Have Been Illegal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2933086/posts


57 posted on 08/03/2014 10:11:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Hojczyk

Why is it that the country continues to be interested in Obama’s approval ratings when he is not going away and not being removed anytime soon?


58 posted on 08/03/2014 10:57:26 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Hojczyk
... Obama got extremely low marks in his handling of every major crisis gripping the nation at home and abroad.

I'm amazed anyone still backs him...

59 posted on 08/03/2014 2:20:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (An Ebola break-out in a large city will turn residential sky scrappers into death traps.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; All
I’d like to know why so many taxpayer dollars are being wasted on agencies that have anything to do with “immigration” or “homeland security”.

$ocialism. ZERO accountability. UNaccountable bureaucracies. BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

DISMANTLE (pick one, any one…there are many from A-Z)

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers…

The U.S.A. (United Socialists of America) are destroying the republic.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

They have burdened ourselves, our children our grandchildren and their progeny with insurmountable debt in excess of $17,000,000,000,000.

(end of some grievances in a very, very long list)

You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help. - Bastiat

Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. - Bastiat

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Alter it.

Ballot box BUMP!

(Representatives current and future framing these arguments?)

60 posted on 08/03/2014 2:40:35 PM PDT by PGalt
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