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In a series of polls conducted in the week of June 10-18, only 23% of Americans now say that they are likely to vote for President Obama. Increasingly troubled by the economy, more Americans are convinced the country is headed in the wrong direction and fewer approve of President Barack Obama’s economic stewardship. Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, June 19. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll also indicates that the economy overall remains issue number one to voters, with other economic issues – unemployment, gas prices and the federal deficit – taking three of the remaining four spots in the top five. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/08/cnn-poll-obama-approval-rating-drops-as-fears-of-depression-rise/ Adding to the troubling numbers for Obama, 80% now believe the economy is in poor shape, with 36 percent calling it “very poor,” a new high in AP-GfK polling. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jun/23/ap-poll-economic-worries-pose-new-snags-for-obama/
President Obama enjoyed a brief spike in positive numbers following the operation leading to the death of Osama Bin Laden, but that spike has been lost and more. His numbers are now nearing historic lows with many Americans viewing the Murdergate Scandal, troop withdrawal schedule and failing economy as reasons for dramatically declining polling numbers.
Geoff, you appear to be telling another of your usual whoppers with that 23% number. Historic lows are the province of your former paramour, W.
All of the numbers are directly supported by the links sprinkled through the post.
A poll that measures whether or not the country is “heading in the right direction” also takes into account attitudes toward Congress. It’s a catch-all. Yet you choose to write this as if it totally about Obama…you never mention Congress…why is that? In fact, one could argue that Congress’ approval numbers, even lower than Obama’s, pulls the “heading in the right direction” number down lower than if that question were just asked about Obama.
Approval of 111th Congress = 25%
Obama Approval (Gallup) 45%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145460/111th-Congress-Averaged-Approval-Among-Recent-Lowest.aspx
Yeah I’m with Rapscallion…I don’t see that 23% number in any of the links…of course, I could be flat out missing it. Care to elaborate?
“Numbers directly supported” is like the phrase “51% of the people pay no taxes.” Frank Luntz would be proud.
Yeah, I think I found his goofy 23% number; it’s 23% of “independent voters”…which Geoff disengenuously turns into “23% of Americans”.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-22/obama-gets-30-of-americans-certain-to-support-re-election-in-economy-poll.html
The Bloomberg poll uses the word “certain”…30% “certain” to vote for Obama. Geoff uses the word “likely”. Jeezus, the BS meter on this post just spiked.
Geoff,
you should post this over at Ed Royces blog: http://www.redcounty.com
They love this kind of stuff!!
*These numbers mean absolutely nothing….until the Republican finalists take the
stage through New Hamshire and Carolina.
One of the things that put the Obama administration into trouble is that on immigration reform, they are all hat and no cattle. They are risking losing the Latino vote in 2012. Of course, Latinos won’t go to the Reps who are even worse, but they are likely to just don’t go to the polls, and that alone could cost Obama the reelection.
Winning the Latino vote….requires Open Borders and Amnesty. Winning the Black Vote means One Man and One Woman as a Marriage. Winning the Asian Vote means sending more jobs to China. Winning the Senior Vote means not touching Medicare and giving everyone on Social Security a Cost of Living Increase. Winning the Fox News Crowd….means hoping that Roger Ailes doesn’t support Sarah Palin or Donald Trump…ever! Winning the Anti-War Crowd mean bringing the troops home. Winning the Republican vote: Do do anything!
Ron & Anna.
While its still early in the 2012 election I would normally say that its the incumbent president’s seat to lose. Generally its almost impossible to knock him or any incumbent out of office. However, based on his domestic policy performance I would opine that all that is necessary is for a Republican candidate with valid credentials, along with support of the GOP, to take that prestigeous post.
Sadly I have yet to select that candidate. Perhaps it might be someone who has not jumped in such as TX governor Rick Perry whose state is jumping while CA is drowning in red ink and Mayflower moving vans are heading south east.
I know people who live in Texas and it’s hardly “jumping” economically, and it has its own deficit problems, as well as a rapidly failing educational system. It’s also hot and humid, and if anyone wants to live in that hellhole, then welcome to it.
Rick Perry is a theocratic fanatic, so if you want a Christian Ayatollah, then please be up front about it.
Rap,
Here’s Bill Maher’s take on Rick Perry (from Daily Kos);
And finally, New Rule, if you think the Republican presidential candidates can’t possibly get any lamer, then you haven’t met the new Republican flavor of the month, Rick Perry. If you’re not familiar with Rick Perry, he took over as Governor of Texas from George W. Bush, who’s now referred to as the smart one.
Rick carries a gun even when he’s jogging, he wears cowboy boots with a suit, and the boots say “come and take it”, which sounds kind of gay to me. And he threw such a tantrum when Obama won, he actually talked about Texas seceding from the Union. Because that’s what America needs, a President of the United States who’s not really sold on the whole “United” States concept.
Now, last week, Rick Perry announced he had rented out a 70,000-seat football stadium in Houston, for something called The Response, which sounds like a home pregnancy test, but actually is, to quote the Governor, “a Christian prayer service to provide spiritual solutions to the many challenges we face as a nation”. Or as stadium employees are calling it, Batshit Day.
I guess the idea is to get together in a big group, and pray all at once. That way the signal is stronger, and God doesn’t lose you when he’s going through a canyon.
But here on planet reality, may I point out that there is no such thing as spiritual solutions to national problems. If that’s where we are as a country, if our official government policy is “Yee-haw, Jesus take the wheel”, then we’re dead already. On his Jesus-palooza website, Perry writes, “There is hope for America, it lies in Heaven and we will find it on our knees”. He also says “some problems are beyond our power to solve”.
What? I thought we were the can-do people. And if Perry thinks only God can solve our problems, why is he even in government? Why doesn’t he just stay at home and light a bunch of candles like Sissy Spacek’s mom in Carrie?
Here’s an opposing view. Not only are our problems not beyond our power to solve, they’re actually fairly easy to solve. You have a giant budget deficit, like Perry has in Texas? Raise taxes. Federal tax revenues haven’t been this low since 1950, and that plus two wars and a recession are the reason we have a huge deficit. It’s not because God is angry over the gay kissing on Glee. It doesn’t require prayer to solve, it requires a calculator.
Politicians like to say, “we need new ideas”. Bullshit. “New ideas” is just a secular version of “spiritual solutions”, something that’s going to magically fix everything. What new idea is going to solve our health care crisis? A magic pill that makes obese children crap out gold bricks? We don’t need new ideas, we need the balls to implement the ideas we already know work.
Cut corporate welfare.
Slash the defense budget.
Tax the rich.
Support the strong unions that created a middle class in the first place.
Build infrastructure.
And take the profit out of health care.
By the way, Rick Perry isn’t just talking when he says “spiritual solutions”. Back in April, faced with a devastating drought, Rick did what any solutions-oriented 21st century civil servant would do, he proclaimed a day of prayer for rain, because we’re ancient Mayans now. Here’s what Texas looked like in April, with the drought in red.
*Sorry, I can’t show the pictures, suffice it to say that the Texass drought has spread.
Excellent, Anon, and by the way, Perry had no trouble asking for Federal assistance due to the drought. I guess God isn’t quite as reliable as he’s supposed to be.
A final thought–if he wants to follow through on his secession wishes, I’ll gladly support the effort. Hopefully he’ll take Wyoming, both Dakotas, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah with him.
Rapscallion. Is this the time when we see you acknowledge that Obama’s reelection is in trouble.
I don’t see you suggesting his taking any of the large blue states.
Are you discriminating against some of the other red states that you failed to list?
Let me help you out: Idaho, Neb, Alaska, KS, S.C., Mont, Ky, Ind, GA, N.C., TN, AZ, LA and VA
Obama is to blame for the tanking economy, unemployment, US debt and the US downgrade and will never be reelected. A super conservative will take his place and Obama will be downgraded in 2012.