Get that nasty-ass finger out of my face!!!!
Posted on 10/15/2009 12:13:08 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009.
Obama's job approval rating comes in at 49 percent this week. That's down just one percentage point from late September, but it marks a new low approval for the president -- and the first time the Fox News poll has measured his approval below 50 percent.
Moreover, the number of Americans saying they would vote to re-elect President Obama has dropped. If the election were held today the poll finds more voters say they would back someone else in the 2012 election than would back the president.
Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, the latest Fox News poll finds the president's ratings on foreign issues are lower than his overall job ratings. All in all, 49 percent of Americans say they approve of the job President Obama is doing and 45 percent disapprove. His average approval for the term so far is 58 percent.
On Afghanistan, 41 percent of Americans say they approve of the job Obama is doing and 43 percent disapprove. For his handling of Iran, 44 percent approve and 43 percent disapprove. On the president's handling of the economy, voters are almost equally split: 48 percent approve and 49 percent disapprove. On health care, some 42 percent approve of the president's performance and half disapprove, 50 percent.
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Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from October 13 to October 14. The poll has a 3-point error margin.
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He’s slipping into Jimmy Carter territory...
43% = 18% + 25%. That 25% is 30% of the 82% that aren’t the 18%.
70% of the 82% that aren’t the 18% would not vote for 0.
70%.
Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?
He undoubtedly sucks more than any President in modern times. The absolute worst since the beginning of the 1900s.
Worse than Taft.
Worse than FDR.
Worse than LBJ.
Worse than Nixon.
Worse than Carter.
“That has to frighten the unholy trinity of Barry/Rahm/Axeldork.”
My fear is that poll numbers like these are going to amplify efforts to get health care reform either because a) they know that in light of these poll numbers, Obama won’t have a second shot at this issue; or b) they foolishly believe the public’s lukewarm support is because the president hasn’t ACCOMPLISHED anything, so once health reform is enacted, his poll numbers will rise... :-(
These polls from the previous.
Administration."
The haiku of FAIL.
Two words - Ross Perot. If it wasn't for Perot and his 19% of the vote, there's a decent chance that Clinton wouldn't have won. Absent some other third-party billionaire, 43% just ain't going to get it done for Barry in 2012.
I expect the MSM to start inventing another Ross Perot anytime now for the same reason.
I've said this before, but I think that they've already resigned themselves to the fact that they're going to lose the House next year. Plus, it doesn't bode well for them in the Senate that their Leader is in the political battle of his tenure, just to keep his job.
I saw that speech to the Joint Session as the big middle finger to the GOP. That was Obama saying - not so subtly - to the left side of the chamber, "It's either now or never, because you fools are all about to lose your jobs next year". I thought then, and I think now, that they'll ram something through sooner, rather than later.
Explains Obama’s rabid, wild-eyed, snarling demand that ObamaCare and Crap and Tirade be passed NOW!!! He knows he’s finished in 2010.
Haik0:
You are a racist.
We sell missiles to China.
Nothing you can do.
Yes, with third party candidates in both elections.
Give it another 6-12 months.
You forgot your units.
From SeekAndFind: “43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today
Again, did the key questions -— are these LIKELY voters they are polling or registered voters? How many percent Republican, Democrat and Independent was in their sample size?”
This is a survey of 900 registered voters. You can view all the internal numbers by going here: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/101509_poll1.pdf
Registered voters so “likely voters” would be even lower.
Another encouraging aspect of this poll, as reported on FoxNews.com:
“Most Americans are unhappy with Congress these days — 66 percent disapprove, including 45 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of independents and 84 percent of Republicans. Overall, less than one of four Americans, 24 percent, approve of the job Congress is doing.
Looking ahead to the 2010 Congressional election, for the first time this year the Republicans have the advantage: 42 percent of voters say they are more likely to back the Republicans to provide a check on President Obama’s power, while 38 percent say they would vote for the Democrat to help the president pass his policies.”
Latest Poll Shows 43% of Voters Brain Dead
Latest Poll Shows 43% of Voters Brain Dead
Perfect. We use Obamacare for their early exit and the country gets real again, soon.
Where is the data? Was the polled slanted to the left? Like 85% of people polled from DemocRAT districts....
Percentages are just ratios - no units.
Some updated info for you:
Telegraph: faux-con, occasional genuine-con columns hidden deep inside to placate readership, who think it’s conservative. Axed Mark Steyn when it became clear he was highly-genuine-con.
Daily Mail: NOTHING LIKE NY Post. faux-con. No half nekkid chicks. Salacious cover stories of underage rape to increase sales. Stories of how having children would cost the misled brit-con readership $millions.
Times: liberal. Where Guardian writers go when they’ve been kind of accepted as mainstream. (News corp.)
Guardian: left, but sometimes in an unusual, 70s-style way, like they have fantasies that they’re not just simple anti-UK, anti-US, modern leftists.
Mirror: kooky left like MSNBC
Independent: hard modern left, headlines like “give all power to UN & they’ll fix the world”
Sun: “mainstream”. half nekkid chicks. Not-really-con, but not-really-lib either. pretty good measure of the country. (News corp.)
I’m not sure what you mean by singling out the 18%, but if it is meant to be the black vote (as I suspect), keep in mind that blacks are only around 14% of the population and are (i) a smaller percentage of the electorate and (ii) Obama doesn’t get 100% of the black vote. If we assume that 12% of the electorate is composed of blacks that would still vote for Obama, then the math is 12% + 31%, and 31% is 35% of the 88% that aren’t the 12%, so it would mean that 65% of those that aren’t the 12% would not vote for Obama.
“Again, did the key questions -— are these LIKELY voters they are polling or registered voters? How many percent Republican, Democrat and Independent was in their sample size? “
Probably polled only Boston, Massachusetts ;-)
“43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today.”
That is still too high.
When it gets down to about 25%, the hard core, deranged, drugged out, permanently unemployed, union thugs, aids infected gays and the gay/lesbo America haters, the backbone of the liberals, we will know that Obamajindad is toast.
Yeah. I haven’t updated my homepage since clinton days.....
But the Daily Mail is great. I like reading the print version over there. Maybe the online version isn’t so good.
The majority of “independents” are starting to understand that they elected a man that was a creation of the media but is nothing but an empty suit. The radical left is already starting to jump ship, for Obama hasn't done one that that he promised them. I suspect that Obama’s popularity ratings will hit the low 40’s before the end of this year.
How about Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer on a third party Green ticket?
That should finish off the Democratic Party.
WTF are you talking about? Please clarify your comment, it is incomprehensible as it is.
They’re doing it in New Jersey right now. If it works (and it will), expect them to do it again nationally.
Hope he had fun playing president.
Before he's done he's gonna make Carter look good.
Obummer is Jimmy Carter 2.0... without any patches or fixes.
They are absolutely doing it in NJ. Wonder how much Corzine paid off the third party to split the vote.
Nowhere to go but down.
Corzine is paying for everything, including the endorsements. It’s so obvious, it’s absurd.
Quick!
Let’s throw him another meaningless award!
LOL!
What scares me is that they are NOT running scared from these polls. Usually pols live and die by the polls. These people are more and more politically suicidal, and Pelosi seems to have such a financial stranglehold over the House that members are more afraid of her than they are of their own voters. Newt said they think they will get enough campaign money from the unions that they aren’t worried about private donations. I have never seen government so deaf to the will of the people, and I was paying attention during the Vietnam War. If public opinion doesn’t move them and money doesn’t move them, what kind of pressure can we bring to prevent these people from doing this to us?
His name is Mike Bloomberg.
DeMint was correct.
Healthcare is Zero’s Waterloo.
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