32 share
strong interest rating
<<< There he is, alone, and, obviously, standing in front of a desk he uses only as a prop. An empty suit who believes raising money is his first priority. Too bad he couldn't have been a mobile fund raiser and a full time, hands on, president . . . but, then again, maybe that is a good thing.
President
Barack Obama's approval rating has plunged to an all-time low, as 79 percent of
respondents to an Wall
Street Journal/NBC News poll said they were dissatisfied with him and
the American political system.
"The American public is telling its elected representatives that the economic distress that a significant proportion of them are feeling is directly their fault," Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Researchtold the Journal. He conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff.
"The public seems to have moved beyond the plaintive cry of 'feel our pain' to the more angry pronouncement of 'you are causing our pain,' " Yang added.
That pain has translated into strong feelings among the 1,000 adults polled that their children will not have a better life that they do, that the country is on the wrong track, that America is in a state of decline, that the country is still in recession — and that the nation's economy is not stronger because of unprecedented partisan gridlock in Washington.
"We’re in the summer of our discontent," Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, told NBC News. "Americans are cranky, unhappy… It is with everything going on the world."
Only 40 percent of those polled between Wednesday and Sunday approve of Obama's performance in the White House — an all-time low, the survey reports. That is down from 41 percent in a June survey.
But President Obama's disapproval rating, 54 percent, matched a previous high — and he got his worst ratings on his handling of foreign policy, 60 percent disapproval to 36 percent approval.
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"The American public is telling its elected representatives that the economic distress that a significant proportion of them are feeling is directly their fault," Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Researchtold the Journal. He conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff.
"The public seems to have moved beyond the plaintive cry of 'feel our pain' to the more angry pronouncement of 'you are causing our pain,' " Yang added.
That pain has translated into strong feelings among the 1,000 adults polled that their children will not have a better life that they do, that the country is on the wrong track, that America is in a state of decline, that the country is still in recession — and that the nation's economy is not stronger because of unprecedented partisan gridlock in Washington.
"We’re in the summer of our discontent," Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, told NBC News. "Americans are cranky, unhappy… It is with everything going on the world."
Only 40 percent of those polled between Wednesday and Sunday approve of Obama's performance in the White House — an all-time low, the survey reports. That is down from 41 percent in a June survey.
But President Obama's disapproval rating, 54 percent, matched a previous high — and he got his worst ratings on his handling of foreign policy, 60 percent disapproval to 36 percent approval.
Reminder...Bush had approval ratings below 40% for most of '06, and ALL of '07-'08.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gallup.com/poll/116500/presidential-approval-ratings-george-bush.aspx
Obama's ratings still higher than Bush.
When you consider Obama's numbers as to the economy, ObamaCare, jobs, transparency and trustworthiness, ALL these numbers are lower than Bush. Are you bragging that Bush was one or two points worse than Obama as to overall approval. You think 40% is "OK?"
DeleteLook at what happened in November 2006, with Bush at 40% just before the midterms. The Dems took over both houses of Congress.
And, now, we are looking at the same scenario but in reverse.