Posted on 04/26/2015 6:26:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama has reached Reagan-like levels of popularity in the twilight of his tenure, but analysts say his bounce can be attributed largely to the fact that he is fading into the political background as the next presidential race kicks into high gear and as Congress claims a surprising number of concrete legislative accomplishments.
Mr. Obama’s job approval rating stands at 46.4 percent, his highest mark in nearly two years, according to a recent Gallup survey. The figure puts him in the company of President Reagan, whose approval rating also hovered around 46 percent at the same point in his presidency.
Mr. Obama is far above President Bush, whose rating sunk to 35 percent during his 25th quarter in office. But Mr. Obama trails President Clinton, who held 64 percent approval ratings at this point in his term.
Political analysts attribute Mr. Obama’s bounce to a number of factors, including positive economic signs, low gas prices and, to some degree, diplomatic outreach efforts such as the reboot with communist Cuba.
But the most significant factor may be that the president increasingly is becoming something of an afterthought in Washington, with candidates to succeed him taking center stage and Congress racking up a number of high-profile bipartisan achievements, said Lara Brown, a political science professor at George Washington University.
“All of the anger and intensity around what the president should do or shouldn’t do starts to actually fade, partly because the expectations for the president to do things start to go down,” she said. “People start to perceive him as a lame duck and they stop expecting him to do things and then they’re not as hypercritical. The other piece is that actually the Senate is getting things done, the Congress is passing some legislation and the president signing some legislation.”
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I call demographics.
The LSM lies. The LSM dies.
The “few” Liberals I an acquainted with think Lord Obama is doing a bang up Job.
The Media pumps Obama The Great into the Brain Cavities of the Sheeple 24/7. Obama can do no wrong, even when he does wrong. Now Hillary is taking some heat which only makes Obama look great to a whole bunch of Democrats and Liberals.
I remember prior to the 2012 General Election many People here saying that the Electorate would Elect their Dogs before they would Reelect Obama.
I think Obama ended up with more People Voting for him in 2012 versus 2008.
I stated my reasoning in my initial Post. On another Thread a Month or so ago I stated that Obama would probably win a Third Term if he could run. Nothing I’ve seen or heard since then has changed my thinking.
They called Reagan the Teflon President.
Obama isn’t Teflon, he is the first Flubber President.
Things don’t just slide off him, they bounce off and accelerate in the opposite direction.
If I were you I’d find another place to work. Their mental disorder might be contagious.
I disapprove of Obama a whole lot less every time I look at the calendar and see how few months he has left to finish his destruction of our country. But that is not the same as approving of pure evil.
From the posts on the thread it’s unanimous. :)
I just tell them I feel sorry for them (which I do, in part)...that seems to get under their skin. My skin itches too...maybe they are contagious!
Seriously, I just usually tune them out.
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