Posted on 03/12/2012 1:48:09 PM PDT by RobinMasters
President Barack Obama's approval rating has plunged below 50 percent, and Republican front-runner Mitt Romney would beat him if the election took place today, a poll showed Monday.
The survey, by ABC News and The Washington Post, indicated that only 46 percent of Americans now approve of the way Obama is handling his job, and 50 percent disapprove as he took a hit from rising gas prices.
The situation was a reversal from early February, when 50 percent approved of the president's performance and 46 percent disapproved.
The survey was released as the battleground for the Republican presidential nomination moved to the deep South for primaries in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday.
If the presidential election took place today, the poll found that Romney would beat Obama 49 percent to 47 percent.
The president was barely ahead of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who is running second in the Republican pack — 49 percent to 46 percent.
Previously, Obama held significant advantages over both.
According to the survey, the drop was attributed to soaring gas prices threatening to crimp America's slow recovery from a recession.
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ABC want Obama to lead from behind
Slow recovery?....If it gets any slower it’s gonna need a Death Certificate............
How bad must the real numbers but if this is Obamah-Loving ABC’s own poll?
What idiots.
Jut wait till Obama gets a hold of that holy underwear!
“soaring gas prices ...”, stocks stalled, bond yields sneaking up, stubborn unemployment...
Obama might be held to account for his, Harry’s and Nancy’s policies despite the media and it’s sluts.
Second poll in a week having the Republican (whomever it is) beat Zero.
Never pictured 0bama as being a “top guy” anyway...
“soaring gas prices ...”, stocks stalled, bond yields sneaking up, stubborn unemployment...
It's probably more likely that a reporter asked for the results of the survey and was told 4 to 6%.............. so, the news copy reads forty six percent............and that, boys and girls is how news is made.
ABC want Obama to lead from behind
Hey, it’s a win-win for the left. If Obama wins, they get a socialist. If Romney wins, they still get a socialist.
It’s the left behind dems who need to start up a new party. If anyone has been taken over by anti American enemies it is the dems.
It’s the left behind dems who need to start up a new party. If anyone has been taken over by anti American enemies it is the dems.
It’s the left behind dems who need to start up a new party. If anyone has been taken over by anti American enemies it is the dems.
Yes, Romney unwittingly reaping the benefit of Newt’s masterful campaign to illustrate the critical importance of energy prices to the economic health of the US. Newt has single handedly driven down Obama’s poll numbers.
Go away, Obama and take your fat police wifey with you.
Gee, staying in the pan but turning down the heat from scorching hot to just burning hot.
Happy days are just around the corner...
However, I have this suspicion that Fox News and ABC News are up to something. They are trading on air personalities and O’Reilly goes on the View all the tiee. I think ABC and Fox may consolidate someday. Seriesly.
Well, if 48 percent does not pay Federal Income Tax, looks like this poll might be right on target!!
A ploy to get energized for Romney, thier candidate, sorry!
True, but you can always tell when Bill Clinton starts into a lie, because his eyebrows will shoot up about a half inch. With Obama, I think virtually everything he has said since becoming a candidate has been obfuscation.
They both will destroy our liberty and appoint liberal judges so whats the point. Obama sees us as subjects to be ruled by policy and Romney sees us as employees to be managed by policy.......
See tagline.
RE: President Barack Obama’s approval rating has plunged below 50 percent,
It amazes me to see his approval ratings still near the 50% mark. What will it take for it to take a humongous double digit dip below that?
The president was barely ahead of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who is running second in the Republican pack -- 49 percent to 46 percent.Romney-Santorum 2012? Santorum-Gingrich 2012? Gingrich-Perry 2012? ...
Romney will end up losing by beating himself.
Yeah, keep shoveling that horse crap AP - Romney is the one who can beat Obama... yeahm yeah,... we got it
Romney’s got what people crave... hes got electrolytes, uh... electability
46% approve of that JOKE?!
Who are these 46%?
Even reporting "bad news" for their guy, they are always pimping for this jerk. Try the other way around, schmucks...
The poll drop IS CAUSED BY zer0, by doing NOTHING to drill or relieve oil/gas prices, and by doing EVERYTHING to raise oil/gas prices, CRIMPING the US economy, and forcing recession to linger. This could be mere media setup, for when the Strategic Oil Preserve floods the market... as early as late October.
Looks like the Fluke ploy backfired.
That’s what they (the media) want us to think. Mitt won’t beat Obama, and neither will Rick. It’s either Newt or Obama.
Newt is brilliant. I wish I could say the same about GOP voters.
They have to keep him around 50%. Anything lower than that is statistically counted as a November loss!
Just like they still claim that unemployment is in the 8-9% range.
They think this is enough for us to vote for liberal romney?!?
So given (1) the supposed "enthusiasm gap" working in favor of the Republicans and (2) the tendency of the MSM pollsters to oversample Democrats, it would appear that Obama's real performance would be a few points worse vs. either Romney or Santorum than the polling indicates.
He's probably the only candidate the skinny kenyan communist muslim faggot usurper could actually beat.
So right ronnie raygun.
If Massachusett’s-Mandate-Mitt gets in, get ready for the greatest shakedown in American history, together with the propaganda that now “both” parties are for it.
When the resulting BIG TIME shut down of consumer spending occurs, from the Arbeitsziehungslager effects, get ready for VAT, which he’ll go right along with, smiles and all just like the pictured shake-hands signing of the Massachusetts Mandate.
They ARE using Arbeitsziehungslager, on the backs of everyone else, as treasury security. Gasoline prices will be meaningless, as ANYTHING they want can be leveraged under the definition of so called “health.”
Purchasers of U.S. treasurys, will have security based on Arbeitsziehungslager U.S. citizen labor,
Forced Labor Camp: U.S. Territory, age 26.
“He’s probably the only candidate the skinny kenyan communist muslim faggot usurper could actually beat.”
You’re right; the Dems will try to use his wealth against him to show an out-of-touch destroyer of jobs running against a champion of the masses. I just don’t know that many will buy Obama this time around; it has been a horrible 3 years, and he offers no hope anymore. If Romney attacks on some simple points (Obama’s war on employers, gasoline engines, etc. - using Obama’s own quotes against him) he should have no problem. There are simply not enough government workers (still working), homosexuals, and unassimilated minorities to put Obama over the top, and nobody else has any incentive to support The Sultan.
RM,
Given that you signed up here just before the last RINOmney attempt at the White House,
and you are posting Mitt-Pimp materials...
Might you be a Mittbot?
Those that are in the wagon.
“slow recovery”? The unemployment rate’s still almost twice what it was under Bush. No matter how many jobs are created, the problem is the mass of people who were unemployed on Obama’s watch, the fear, doubt and uncertainty Obama himself inflicted on business with his messing around with health care - Obama may lose just on the magic shrinking health coverage Americans get now that he’s guaranteed health coverage will be more expensive for most of us - and the backfire of his lack of resolve with Iran - which predictably will lead us into yet another war under a weak Democrat (just like the escalation of the Vietnam conflict into something that cost 50,000 American lives).
It’s just mind numbing to think of the level of infiltration the left has managed into GOP leadership. We are betrayed from within...
The country is sick of the double standard - sick about Sarah Palin and conservative women being called names and liberals laughing and whooping it up about it. Then, the same liberals turning around and act 'oh so horrified' when a liberal woman is called a similar names...
People are tired of the Democrat-Media Complex pretending they don't know conservative women have had to put up with being called c*unts and twats for years.
There are many obamabots out there. I am in NYC and trust me , you can’t believe the amount of brain dead leftists out there.
A Republican ham sandwich could probably seize the presidency from Obama.
Ham that would go awfully well with the waffles that Mitt Romney is serving up (I’m cheering for Santorum IYWTK).
By now Palin would have been so far ahead of these 2 marxist dolts that they would never catch up.
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