Even Left Wing polling is going against the Promise Maker

Hey William, here is one of your Leftist polls. New York Times/CBS poll. --- can't get anymore Left of center than these guys.

From the Times/ABC poll:

Disapproval of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy has never been broader — at 57 percent of Americans — a warning sign as he begins to set his sights on re-election in 2012. And a similar percentage disapprove of how Mr. Obama is handling the federal budget deficit, though more disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are.

. . . . . Republicans can take as a positive sign . . . . . . 55 percent of poll respondents said they would rather have fewer services from a smaller government than more services from a bigger one, as opposed to 33 percent who said the opposite, a continuation of a trend in Times/CBS polls.

The opposition by Tea Party supporters to raising the level of debt the nation can legally carry was shared by nearly two-thirds of poll respondents, including nearly half of Democrats; administration officials say blocking the government from raising that limit could force it to default on its debt payments.

But with 70 percent of poll respondents saying that the country was heading in the wrong direction, the public was not exhibiting warm feelings toward officeholders of either party.

Editor's notes: one thing I have observed as true in all this poll taking, is this: when folks think poorly of congress, the real predictors are a) , how is the same party president perceived and b), which party is perceived as working against the will of the people. It makes little difference how congress "rates." An example of this theoretical opinion is 2010 midterms; while the GOP rated slightly lower than the Democrats on many issues, they destroyed the Democrats in the congressional elections because

* of the terrible showing of presidential performance over the course of Obama's first two years, and

*the perception that the Dems had governed against the will of the people.

In all the polls prior to the midterm elections, Obama was successful in his strategy of passing the buck to Bush, but, in the end, the voting public expected more of the Promise Maker. Although talk is cheap, it comes with a heavy price when it produces nothing but excuses and the blaming of others ----- a lesson the Promise Maker has not learned to this day.

A second observation as a result of this poll is this: the Left Wing bias of both the New York Times and ABC news could not cover over the fact that the fundamental concerns of the TEA Party movement has broad-based approval. The midterm election did nothing but energize the TEA Party base. I believe that they - the 40 million member TEA Party Movement - will out perform the socialist partnerships of the AFL-CIO, SEIU, ACORN and the Organizing for America collective belonging to Obama in the coming election.

Obama thinks 2012 will be about rhetoric and big money. I think it will be all about Obama.

Update: Oooops. Almost forgot . . . when I wrote of the bias of the Times/ABC survey, that its "bias could not cover" over the results of this poll? Well, I meant that in a most demonstrable way. the Lefties tried to stack the poll in their favor. This is most obvious as we note the demographics of the poll: 25% Republican , 33% Democrat, 41% Independent.

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