Posted on 10/07/2014 7:21:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats are panicking, and rightly so. Going into the November congressional elections, voter opposition to Obama is worse than it was for George W. Bush and for Bill Clinton at their respective six-year marks, and Democrats can't unyoke themselves from him.
It's not just that Gallup's latest polls show Obama's policies are unpopular but that voters are planning to make a statement to that effect in November. Since 1998, Gallup has included a question to determine whether the voters are intending to use their vote to "send a message" that they either support or oppose the sitting president.
Gallup found that 32 percent of voters want their vote to communicate their opposition to Obama, whereas only 20 percent want it to reflect their support for him. This is the highest such "no vote" for a sitting president in the past 16 years.
There is good reason for these poll responses. They are based not on personal animus but on the fact that Democrats have wholly supported President Obama throughout and that a vote for them will mean a vote for continuing with Obama's agenda, his lack of leadership and incompetence on both the domestic front and the foreign front, and his general untrustworthiness.
Americans can't help but notice that Obama has consistently placed his ideology and political interests above the national interests and routinely resorted to partisan sniping and scapegoating instead of accepting responsibility (and accountability) for his decisions and considering a change of course. More disturbingly, voters must notice that Obama's words are increasingly unreliable and that he expects them to believe his version of reality over the reality itself.
His response to a question from a steel plant manager at a town hall meeting last week in Indiana concerning rising health care costs was particularly revealing.
The man said: "We are seeing almost a double-digit increase (in) health care costs every year. ... Do you think that trend's going to go down, and what can we do to control that trend?"
Obama replied, "The question is whether you guys are shopping effectively enough, because it turns out that this year -- and in fact over the course of the last four years -- premiums have gone up at the slowest rate in 50 years." Then Obama assured the gentleman that he would put him in contact with health care people. "I'll bet we can get you a better deal," he said.
Obama's response was troubling in several ways. It was another example of his unwillingness to concede that his policies have caused problems. Here, he even denied there is a problem at all. He rejected out of hand the man's premise that his health care costs are rising, though the man himself has personally experienced them and most of the nation realizes this is not just anecdotal but true mostly throughout the nation. He even implied that it was this man's fault for not looking hard enough for a good deal.
In addition -- and this may even be worse -- Obama acted as if he were some plant manager and not the president of the United States, whose duties apparently now include micromanaging specific health care choices for hundreds of millions of Americans. He actually told the guy he'd help him get a better deal. And this is not the only time Obama has played this role -- acting as though it's his duty to personally administer such matters. It's no wonder so many people believed, early in his term, that Obama would pay their mortgages. How can a president be so radically confused about his job description -- or pretend to be?
This bizarre pattern of behavior can't be lost on the voters. Not long ago, Obama insisted that it had not been his decision to precipitously withdraw our troops from Iraq, a decision that left the vacuum that has allowed the Islamic State to run wild and gobble up swaths of real estate. He blamed it on the Iraqi regime when the truth is that he sabotaged any status of forces agreement that would have involved retaining enough of our troops to make a difference. This is objectively undeniable (ask former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta), yet Obama looks us straight in the face and denies it.
Obama and his administration assure us that Ebola isn't a threat to America or Americans, yet -- here we are. He tells us that his policies are growing the economy "from the middle out," yet we see, under his policies, that median household income is stagnating.
The list is endless. Obama habitually tells the American people that conditions are as he promised they would be rather than as they really are. He expects us to believe things are rosy when they're anything but, and, in any event, he eschews responsibility for any problems, as if he's a bystander.
Have we ever had a president so out of touch and so fundamentally dishonest about the impact of his policies? I don't think so, and I'm betting the voters will show they agree with me in November.
The question is will the democrats manufacture ballots on election day fast enough to keep up.
Then tell me what the eff is going on in NC and in Kansas? In two red states where even a bad year for the GOP is still a good year they are managing to screw it up.
They won’t pay too high a price, I don’t think. The GOP is screwing it up just as quickly as they are.
Whatever. It’s AMERICANS that are paying that POS! They have been for six years and will for the next TWO! Who gives a flying crap how it effects the Demonic Party and its perverted cult membership?
> Obama replied, “The question is whether you guys are shopping effectively enough, because it turns out that this year — and in fact over the course of the last four years — premiums have gone up at the slowest rate in 50 years.”
Boy what a liar. The proof is everywhere that the premiums are rising the fastest that they ever have in history and this idiots spots out this crap which is an obviously blatant in your face lie. “gone up at the slowest rate in 50 years” eh? So now you’re an expert on the earth insurance industry top and know what the insurance rates were going back to 1964? Yeah right you POS liar!
that’s why in wisconsin they are fighting against the voter id to be used in this election. they want it to be in an injunction by the us supreme court. a little state like wisconsin can make or break congress. the supreme court ruling on gay marriage has only angered the conservatives
Kentucky also. Grimes is ahead by 2 in the latest poll.
It seems like every election we get excited about taking control but then it never seems to pan out.
Doesn’t really matter now, it is too late. Both the democrat communists and the republican fools have driven America into a third world status that we will not climb out. After the crash maybe we can put the pieces back together.
NC seems to be falling for the same line of B.S. as PA and possibly MI.
“It’s the government’s job to FULLY FUND education with other people’s money. And Republicans aren’t doing it.”
Incredible sophistry I know, but that appears to be working for Hagan and for Wolf.
Never underestimate the Republicans’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Oh, please. Democrats didn’t pay the price for Obama in November 2012, even after the bloody fiasco in Benghazi.
That we can’t even manage to relegate Democrats in Congress to a miniscule minority shows that a critical mass of American occupants (I refuse to call them citizens) LIKES the destruction of America.
lol. Yeah. OK. let me guess. You’re the guys that were saying pretty much the same thing Oct 2012?
I loathe “happy talk”. The fact that the electoral map heavily favors the GOP, that many of the Dim Senators up for re-election got elected in the 2008 Dim wave and the fact that the GOP winning is STILL up in the air is .... a .... disaster. Oh. Let us NOT forget that the GOPe screwed up Kansas big time. Toss in that the GOP’s ratings make Obama look like the most popular Dimwit in the world and, well ... forgive me if I don’t buy into the “don’t worry be happy” narrative.
Reality is what will help us right the Conservative ship. And boy does it need righting (pun intended).
What it costs the Democrats is relative to the effectiveness of their control of the vote count. And with the election of a majority of Gopes in the Senate and an increased Gope majority in the House what have they lost?
The Republocrat Party refuses to distinguish itself from the Demoblican Party.
Thanks a lot. *rme*
Karl Rove and his tireless work for the Democrat-Gopes.
Actually he may be technically right, given real inflation as opposed to nominal inflation.
Quote: “It seems like every election we get excited about taking control but then it never seems to pan out.”
Because nobody in our base is excited. We see a bunch of Karl Rove/Consultant Class/Chamber of Commerce stand for nothing morons being run out there. A group that will basically do nothing but be dem light.
Having said that, I suspect Grimes and many others are losing (badly) and that the polls at this point are being used by the leftist media to try and suppress voter turnout for the GOP. Ask yourself this, if a GOP president were in the White House right now and was this unpopular, do you think the polls would be calling any of these races as going for the GOP? I don’t.
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