Obama’s ratings plummet; worst drop in 50 years

by Infidelesto on October 23, 2009 · Comments

I’m appalled at the race-bating undertones of the author who clearly doesn’t like Obama cause he’s black…</sarc>

The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.

Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April.

His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president. Mr Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 per cent approval rating.

The bad polling news came as Mr Obama returned to the campaign trail to prevent his Democratic party losing two governorships next month in states in which he defeated Senator John McCain in last November’s election.

Jeffrey Jones of Gallup explained: “The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.

“Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10 per cent.”

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  • migueljs16
    Good, I'm a Liberal and this guy is TOO liberal for me....USA is not a Christian country... bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia.... this guy would do anything to keep the Muslims happy
  • funkybarfly
    When everything has gone to pot,and the political pundits are calling the Democratic loss on Election night on TV screens everywhere;I predict they will do a live cross to Obama.........sitting on a log with Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection";a sad tear appearing on his cheek just as he rounds off the last "The lovers,the dreamers and meeee(tear rolls down cheek)eeeeeeeee"....(consoling hug from Kermit)
  • Storm_Rider
    Obama leads and has the support of intellectuals and the proletariat class, but the American middle class is finally waking up. Maybe, just maybe the American middle class has figured out that Obama has been positioning their economic necks under the guillotine - a direct assault on our sacred right to the pursuit of happiness. Once impoverished the American middle class will be in a much weakened position to resist the follow-on assaults on our sacred liberty; to be followed by certain struggles for life - tyranny - in reverse order of our Declaration of Independence.

    “The proletariat (non-disabled poor) will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie (entrepreneurs and middle class), to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state (for "redistribution to the prolietariat class)… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property (excessive taxation or confiscation)...You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.” Karl Marx

    http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/mani...

    “Government big enough to supply everything you need (property "redistributed" to he proletariat class) is big enough to take everything you have (property confiscated from the middle class).” Thomas Jefferson

    “The two enemies of the (middle class) people are criminals and (property-confiscating criminal) government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson
  • psudrozz
    you also forgot that the potus has the support of hollywood and the traditional media.

    still, the tea party in DC gives me hope that people are realizing what a pathetic sham this current administration is.
  • Beejj
    I love your messages, SR. Invariably I learn from them. As HSB once wrote, you should be in Politics, thundering away at the craven weaklings who daily pick away at the very foundations of America. Curiously, those of a liberal bent look upon Conservatism as dreary and hidebound, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Conservatism stands for RESPONSIBLE progress, not a higgeldy-piggledy grasping of anything that avoids hard decisions and sacrifice for the common good. Conservatism is a hard taskmaster for this very reason, but it is not tyrannical in any way, shape or form. It requires intellectual and moral discipline, so those who wish to wallow in the mire of laissez faire, valuing instant gratification rather than long-term rewards and security, turn away to seek solace in meaningless slogans and the comfort of cowardly capitulation. They are blind to History's lessons and evidently believe that the good life is their birthright and as natural as the sunrise. They look upon Obama and his henchmen, smooth-talking preachers of the Socialist cause, as the panacea to the world's ills, not realising that they are nothing more than rotten apples in the barrel and will destroy everything they presently enjoy and take for granted. Perhaps they will only awaken when, as Shakespeare put it, the shit hits the fan.
  • SirWilhelm
    Yes Beej, it's the liberals that wind up creating a dreay, boring society of uniformism and blandness through forced conformity. All are poor except for the ruling elite, all dress in the only clothes they can afford, all ride the mass transit that's all they can afford, all live in the uniform drabness of the public housing they are forced to live in. And their futures are as drab and bleak as their present and past. Do their pasts resemble the bleak landscapes of many of our inner cities of the "rust belt"? Is that a glimpse of the future of America?
  • Silhouette_yep
    And are the Gallup numbers even accurate? I've seen polls lately with a 13 point or greater difference in Dems polled versus Repubs, when the actual difference is more like 6-9 points. So the results are inaccurately weighted for Obama.
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