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Far from becoming more popular as it begins to be implemented, Obama’s signature legislative achievement draws ever lower levels of approval and support as more and more Americans “find out what’s in it.� According to a tracking poll by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, just 34 percent of Americans view the law favorably — the lowest level of approval since Obama signed the legislation into law in March of last year.Interestingly, waning approval among Democrats drove this. In October, just 52 percent of Democrats viewed Obamacare positively, compared to 65 percent who liked the law a month ago. Support among...

Nearly three out of five Americans have an unfavorable view of Republicans, an all-time high, and two in five do not want their own member of Congress reelected, according to a poll out Tuesday. Overall, 70 percent of respondents to a CNN/ORC International survey said most US lawmakers should not get a new term, while just 41 percent said their own representative deserved to go back to Washington. President Barack Obama's Republican foes won unfavorable reviews from 59 percent, an all-time high since CNN first asked the question in 1992, making the aftermath of the debt-limit battle worse for the...

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points.

A new poll shows President Barack Obama’s disapproval rate among political independents has broken above 50 percent, even while he is using the debt ceiling debate to seek approval from those critical swing voters. Support for Obama among independents has fallen from 42 percent in May to 31 percent, and disapproval has risen to 54 percent, according to a late July poll of 1,500 registered voters by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The drop in support among independents is critical because both parties have a roughly similar number of die-hard supporters.

Those who forecast Barack Obama had sealed his second term as president with the killing of Osama Bin Laden look to be wrong. According to a new poll, the 'Bin laden bounce' has already evaporated Obama's approval rating surged to 56 per cent in the aftermath of the terrorist's death but now just 47 per cent think he is doing a good job. But it is domestic policies - notably Obama's handling of the economy - that is driving the frustration of the American public, according to a joint poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC news. Fifty-nine per...

Everyone except liberals knew that the shining armor Obama rode to town in was purely so he could admire himself when the reflection of his teleprompters were not at his disposal. It looks like the country is starting to get tired of being blinded by the "brilliance." I wondered a couple of weeks ago what the man even has to campaign on for reelection. Voters gave hope a chance and this doof blew it 2 years in with unprecedented majorities in Congress.How will the Democrats craft a message for a man who has been a complete and abject failure?...

"Americans currently hold Congress in lower esteem for the job it is doing than at any point in the last 36 years. In the past month, many of the supporters it had, largely Democrats, appear to have become frustrated with its work."

Guess Friday isn't always a good day to release bad news, huh? More than half. More than half. You know what I call that? A majority. Oddly that 42% of support isn't budging at all. So I guess that will be a tougher nut to crack. On the other hand, we are seeing the daily erosion of support from people who, while having great doubts in Obama, were willing to keep their minds open about him, waiting to be impressed or convinced, and were unwilling to make the psychic leap to say they "disapproved" of a man so obviously beloved...

In today's Real Clear Politics polling average, Obama has hit an average 50% disapproval rate for the first time! The graph can be found at the link, but here are the raw numbers: Poll                                  Date         Sample        Approve        Disapprove       Spread RCP Average                7/13 - 8/3        --                 44.7                 50.0               -5.3 Gallup                            8/1 - 8/3      1547 A            44                   48                   -4 Rasmussen Reports        8/1 - 8/3      1500 LV         46                    53                   -7 USA Today/Gallup        7/27 - 8/1    1208 A            41                    53                  -12 FOX News                   7/27 - 7/28   900 RV           43                    50                   -7 Reuters/Ipsos                 7/22 - 7/25  1075 A            48                   48                   Tie CNN/Opinion Research 7/16 - 7/21  1018 A            47                    50                  ...

CAIRO – Al-Qaida's U.S.-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones.

A Fox News poll released today shows that Americans are not happy with President Obama’s response the Gulf oil spill disaster, a majority of those polled believe that the Obama Administration is unable to handle the problem. 72 percent of Republicans think that Obama could have acted more quickly. 63 percent of independents and 43 percent of Democrats agree with that assessment. 54% of the voters polled believe that the Obama administration is “in over its head” while only 36% say that Obama is “up to the job”. BP doesn’t fare as well as Obama in the poll. 68% believe...

These ones have to have been the absolute WORST.Is it any surprise??CNN in the US is bad enough. The CNN JAPAN outfit has relentlessy covered for Obama and his socialist foibles from Day 1 and accordingly denied the Japanese material and critical information about Obama, news on his lack of popularity among Americans, information that not all Americans are jubilant over this man anymore (and never were), etc. It has been right out of George Orwell. Spin. BS. Spin. BS. And more Spin.Maybe they realize their viewership falls as people turn to alternative news sources which show CNN Japan...

For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama's job performance. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama's job performance and 46 percent approve of it.

The vast majority of Americans don't approve of Congress, according to a poll released yesterday. Only 17 percent of those surveyed in The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll approve of Washington's legislative branch, while 77 percent disapprove. In fact, half of the Americans surveyed would vote to replace every single member of Congress if they were given a choice. The 50 percent of respondents who would start from scratch would even get rid of their own representatives, according to the poll. Forty-five percent were happy with their own representatives. The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percent.

President Obama begins his second year in the White House with such anemic approval ratings, you'd think he was another Ronald Reagan: Among recent presidents, only the Gipper had fallen so low in the esteem of voters at this stage of his presidency. In the end, things worked out rather well for Reagan -- a landslide reelection, success in changing the course of the nation and the world, canonization by the Republican Party. The major reason for the enthusiasm gap is that Republicans have been winning far too many battles in the "message" war -- for example, turning "affordable health...

Public disapproval of President Obama's handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released hours before he makes his case for overhaul in a prime-time address to Congress. With his health revamp moving slowly and unemployment edging ever higher, Obama's overall approval rating has also suffered a blow. The survey showed that 49 percent now disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, up from 42 percent who disapproved in July. The grade people give Obama on health care also has worsened since July, when just 43 percent disapproved of his...

Among the most powerful psephological tools available to political strategists and commentators is the well-known Upchuck Factor. Never heard of it? I'm surprised. The Upchuck Factor is, quite simply, the length of time it takes the US voter to decide that s/he's "had enough" of the Democrats. And it looks like this year it is hitting a new record. You may have been taught in school, for instance, that the American people loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt so much that they would have gone on voting for him forever. In fact the American people demonstrated in the mid-term election of 1938...

IN JANUARY 2007 Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, said he was running for president to revive “our national soul”. He was not alone in taking an expansive view of presidential responsibilities. With the exception of Ron Paul, all the serious candidates waxed grandiloquent about their aims. John McCain said he modelled himself on Teddy Roosevelt, a man who “nourished the soul of a great nation”. Hillary Clinton lamented that America had no goals, and offered to supply some. And let us not forget the man they all sought to replace, George Bush, who promised, among other things, to...

Date Night spending, GM's Union bailout, Sotomayor nomination and Obama's hubris may be catching up with him!The Rasmussen polling graph for Friday: In the comments section at Mike's America I've been keeping a semi-regular update on this chart and wondering how long it will be before the lines cross and the disapproval line is higher than the approval. We may be on the threshold of that moment. (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +2, his lowest total to date

CSULB: Academic Senate distances itself from Kevin MacDonald's controversial works.LONG BEACH - The Cal State Long Beach Academic Senate has voted to disassociate itself from the writings of a controversial psychology professor who has been accused of having anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views. "While the Academic Senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald's academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed," according to the resolution Thursday. Responding to the resolution, MacDonald, a tenured professor, said "everyone has ethnic interests." "This is an...

The U.S. Congress, returning to Washington this week after its summer recess, has a disapproval rate of 58 percent, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday says. A Gallup Tuesday Briefing reported 36 percent of those polled approve of the way Congress is handling its job but 58 percent disapprove. Congress' approval rating hasn't been above 38 percent since February, the first time since 1997 the nation's legislative body approval rating, tracked monthly, has spent so many consecutive months less than 40 percent. The data show a strong partisan divide in opinion of the Republican-controlled Congress. A total of 57 percent of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A poll released Friday says that more Ohioans disapproved of the job Gov. Bob Taft is doing than any governor in the poll's 24-year history. The Ohio Poll, sponsored and conducted by the University of Cincinnati, found that 55 percent of those surveyed disapproved of the way Taft, a Cincinnati Republican, was handling his job. Thirty-four percent approved of Taft's job performance and 11 percent neither approved or disapproved. Taft's previous disapproval rating in the poll was 43 percent in February 2004. The telephone poll was taken March 21-April 10 among 846 adults statewide. It had a...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/asia/20china.html?oref=loginApril 20, 2005 Chinese Official Orders End to Anti-Japanese Demonstrations By JOSEPH KAHN EIJING, April 19 - China's foreign minister called Tuesday for an end to anti-Japanese protests, the first signal that the leadership may no longer welcome the sometimes violent demonstrations that have underpinned a new and more confrontational approach to Japan.The minister, Li Zhaoxing, told a meeting of the Communist Party's propaganda department attended by 3,500 people that government, military and party officials, as well as "the masses," should stay off the streets, state media reported."Cadres and the masses must believe in the party and the government's ability...

The war in Iraq continues to tarnish the approval ratings of President Bush. Evaluations of the way Mr. Bush is handling the war in Iraq, how he is handling foreign policy, and how he is handling his job overall are now at their lowest levels ever in his presidency. Mr. Bush's overall job approval rating has continued to decline. Forty-one percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 52 percent disapprove — the lowest overall job rating of his presidency. Two weeks ago, 44 percent approved. A year ago, two-thirds did.

If you're an angry liberal Democrat former governor of Vermont running for President and leading the current pack of nine shrill Leftists seeking the nod from the party of Bill Clinton -- and you pay attention to the Gallup polls -- this was not the greatest week you've ever had. This week, Gallup released four poll analyses that did not bode well for the incensed former leader of the home state of Sen. Jim Jeffords, the man without a party, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, the lead obstructionist of President Bush's judicial nominations. Angry Campaign in a Happy CountryOn Monday, Gallup...

<p>Californians think Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature are doing a lousy job of dealing with the state budget crisis, a new poll shows. And based on what's been happening in the Capitol -- or not happening, more accurately -- the negative attitudes are well justified.</p>