Hope and change: New WSJ poll shows America souring on Obamanomics?
posted at 9:34 pm on June 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
The question mark’s there because he still has a 51/38 favorable rating on the economy, down five points since February. But:
Fifty-eight percent say that the feds should focus on keeping the budget deficit down even if it means the economy will take longer to recover. Meanwhile, Geraghty, reading the same poll, notes that he’s dropped from a two-to-one majority among independents in April to “closely divided” today. Exit question: Um, which economic measures does America have a favorable opinion of, exactly?
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No wonder Obama is loosing sleep….
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
As Mark Levin just called it instead of voodoo economics we have doodoo economics…
elduende on June 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Is he getting gray again?
ladyingray on June 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM
doodoo!?.. hahahahahahaha!!!
moonbatkiller on June 17, 2009 at 9:39 PM
If porkulus and the bailouts had never happened, we’d be in the same position now or even better off.
Recessions happen, you can’t cure them. All you can do is things like extend unemployment benefits and address some of the problems that got us here that could have been avoided WITHOUT becoming a totalitarian state.
Spiritk9 on June 17, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Bwahahahahaha!
Gotta love Levin.
maverick muse on June 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Obama doesn’t care about polls*
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*From the maker of: “I don’t want to meddle”
Weight of Glory on June 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I’ve been trying to tell Omama he’s overreaching, but them Jooooos won’t let me.
America’s Chickens…
Have come Home…
To Rooosst!
roscopico on June 17, 2009 at 9:43 PM
How does this guy keep the high approval ratings? Amazing! I hope that people wise up soon before it is too late and we get another four years. Oh for shame.
Bailey14 on June 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I just saw that. I LOL’d.
BPD on June 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Ruh-ro…when this thing unravels, it is going to ugly. Narcissist don’t like it when you don’t bow. Ask Brian Williams.
d1carter on June 17, 2009 at 9:45 PM
That bit about the budget was reassuring. But I can already hear Captain Legthrill comparing Obama to Milton Friedman in two years when we start crawling out of this recession.
I suppose if the economy recovers, it may be worth the price, but I don’t have to like it.
Tman on June 17, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Exit question: Um, which economic measures does America have a favorable opinion of, exactly?
Conservatism.
CUT TAXES.
CUT SPENDING.
MAINTAIN THE MILITARY.
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW. Refine and build the pipeline.
Real jobs, not green fairytale jobs paid via taxation.
maverick muse on June 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Nobel prize in Economics?
Sapwolf on June 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Obama is a disaster. No wonder he doesn’t leave the White House. I have never seen this kind of outrage from people, black and white. They are worried about our Country. Enough.
suzyk on June 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
How ’bout Bammy stop meddling in domestic affairs?
You need to spend more time with the family Barack. And the puppy. Especially the puppy.
Go on a vacation. We won’t complain that you’re taking too much time off.
Come back in November, 2012. And take Pelosi and Reid along with you.
NoDonkey on June 17, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Yeah sure, whatever, but did you know that Mrs. B. Hussein Ogabe grows a mean iceberg lettuce?
Bishop on June 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM
You think he’s whining now, whoa, just wait till the gallop shows him under 50.
Ruh-row.
It’s inevitebre!!!
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Guilt is a terrible thing and we have trained to be dishonest about our feeling based on peoples color, religion and gender. Disapproving of his policies is the first step but it needs to be more robust. As to those people who don’t have an opinion, who do you think they voted for?
Cindy Munford on June 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM
This is why the Obama campaign and the media worked very hard to conceal the inner radical, going forward every pink slip, every foreclosure, every closed business, the media shares the blame right along with the Marxist they conspired to elect.
Speakup on June 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Maybe Sarah should launch a covert op to measure the drapes in the Oval.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Oh, that’s an understatement. We’d be trillions in debt better off.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Those favorable economic measures surely come from the same focus group that have gave us and the Iranians the “Worm Tongue Doctrine” in foreign policy.
elduende on June 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Leave a dead Ptarmigan in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Sapwolf on June 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Well, I’m pretty sure the reason Obama isn’t in negatives yet is that his buddy Jeff Immelt has his network (eh hem, CNBC) shilling the miracle of Obamanomics 24/7 now. These guys are sunshine pumping this economy non-stop. Every bad report that comes out…they spin into good news! Actually, not all of them are shilling…the old hands are trying to blink out in morse code that it’s all lies. Bottom line…many Obamaniacs are about to lose their shirts in the markets…our shirts will come a little later.
AUINSC on June 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
LOL…that’s when we might see the Obama Defense Force out in the streets.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
And she sure knows how to wear neon and rag-tag birthday cake t-shirts! /
conservative pilgrim on June 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Obambi is the worst thing to happen to America, yet the best thing to happen to Republicans/Conservatives.
The irony is killing me.
HarryBalzac on June 17, 2009 at 9:55 PM
White guilt?
Branch Rickey on June 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM
He doesnt, dont believe everything the MFMSM (Mother E’ffing Mainstream Media) tells you.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM
I quiz the libs I know about what they think, in detail, is good about Obama’s policies. I can’t get a straight answer. The fact is they don’t know anything about what he is doing really as far as the nuts and bolts. They listen to his rhetoric and media reports and they believe all is going well, even when you confront them with facts to the contrary. They are sheep, nothing more. Nobody knows this more than Obama, he can take them anywhere HE wants them to go.
echosyst on June 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Star20 on June 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Goes back to what I said a few months ago.
Obama is a republican plant.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 9:59 PM
echosyst on June 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I completely agree. Most have NO clue what the heck is going on.
txag92 on June 17, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Yeah, but the number of sheep is decreasing steadily.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 10:00 PM
He doesnt, dont believe everything the MFMSM (Mother E’ffing Mainstream Media) tells you.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM
ewwwww,you really are pi**ed off.
SHARPTOOTH on June 17, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I glanced at your comment and thought it said “No wonder Obama is losing sheep.” Heh. That’d work, too.
aero on June 17, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Maybe Sarah should launch a covert op to measure the drapes in the Oval.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Too late; Mrs. Ogabe already converted them to a smokin’ hot ensemble to wear for her next date night.
Bishop on June 17, 2009 at 10:01 PM
It’s too late.
Even if the drooling morons who voted that dimbulb into office are starting to see just what a rotten apple he is, the damage has already done. It would take generations to get America back on her feet – and that would require a populace where the majority didn’t have their heads up their @$$es.
I note with bitter irony that the first non-white President may doom any hopes for another due to his astoundingly dreadful performance…
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 10:01 PM
And you are never going to find an answer, apart from the diehard leftists, the squishys that voted for him have no idea what he stands for except that “its cool” to have a black POTUS. Its racism plain and simple but they are too sanctimonious to see it.
elduende on June 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I don’t think approval of Obama is so high, either. I think it’s of the “well, we haven’t been flattened by Nork or Iranian nukes yet, so I guess he’s doing OK” variety.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
This will work UNTIL these sheeple have to pay their taxes in 2010/11. When the Bush tax cuts expire and Obama has raised our taxes, eyes will be opened and there will be retribution. Nothing works better than hitting one’s pocketbook.
conservative pilgrim on June 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
But…wait…Newsweek said we were all socialists now.
They did.
I saw it.
Wait a min, could Newsweek be wrong?
The mind reels.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Call me stupid if you must but as near as I can figure, this Obozo worship borders on some type of mass hysteria. Dumbmass hysteria.
With the eight years of Bush bad, Bush lied, Bush stole the election, etc. AND couple that with the fact that the MSM doesn’t even try to hide their bias plus the dumbing down of children who are products of public schools, why is any sane person surprised?
What did O’Brien say about doublethink? The ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time and believing both are correct? Or was that Goldstein?
2+2=5 is just around the corner.
Impossible, you say? I laff!
Lanceman on June 17, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Well the Editor said Pres. Obama is God also, so I don’t know how much stock you want to put in their magazine.
Cindy Munford on June 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM
It’s not as widespread or as passionate as the media would have us believe. Honestly, I’d say no more than 20% of the country would qualify is O-bots.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Make the chumps who took control of Congress in 2006 and who voted for Obamanomics pay first in 2010–with their careers.
Christien on June 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Just as long as we can still see her amazing arms.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Barack Obama referring to critics of the stimulus bill….
“Then you get the argument, ‘This is not a stimulus bill. This is a spending bill’. What do you think a stimulus is? That’s the whole point! No seriously.”
– Barack Obama, February 5, 2009
Barrack on June 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Actually I’m going more with the “Don’t want to be accused of being racist” as a explanation.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
The approval ratings are a mystery to me. It can only be people are afraid of being called racist to oppose him or ACORN is lurking nearby.
faol on June 17, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I’ll go with the Iraninan way and say their RACIST!! anyway.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM
This all the fault of the large megaphone known as FOXNews.
Listen, the fog has to lift eventually. Soooooo many people have invested soooooooooooooooooooo much into their worship of Obama it’s hard for them to admit he’s wrong. When they say he’s wrong, they admit they were wrong. That’s not easy to do. It’s funny to us (at least to me), but it’s gonna be a long, hot summer that’s for sure.
SouthernGent on June 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM
I believe it was George Orwell who gets credit for that term.
And that sort of nonsense isn’t ‘just around the corner’, either, at least not partially. Ever heard of ‘moral relativism’? That garbage is already being taught all over the US.
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Obama is trying to repave the worn out Jimma Carter expressway. He picked a long long road.
feedercattle on June 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Call me stupid if you must but as near as I can figure, this Obozo worship borders on some type of mass hysteria. Dumbmass hysteria.
Lanceman on June 17, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Back in 39 they frickin loved Adolf!
faol on June 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Like I said in the Barbra Boxer thread, dont complain, do something. I offered myself as a living pinata to run against Barbra Boxer to anyone with the guts to start a campaign website for the fight.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Never mind Hopey for a second,The Liberal Party
rises or falls on Obama!
The smartest women in the universe,Nancy “Palimino’
Pelosi,must be in panick mode!!
For Liberals,theres only one solution,and thats
more KOOL_AID!!
canopfor on June 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Nice job with the charts, Allah!
Donald Douglas on June 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Yes, but I was referring to the characters in his book 1984.
But getting back to the Obozobots, have I earned my two minutes’ hate? /s
Lanceman on June 17, 2009 at 10:15 PM
You want two minutes’ hate, drive around almost any major city with an anti-Obama bumper sticker.
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
What’s the difference. He’ll get 100% of the minority vote, and 95% of the idiot woman/girlie man vote. He could murder a family of 6, in cold blood, on prime time TV and Chris Mathews would still get a tingling leg.
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM
CNN REPORTS ON THE POLL: That puppy sure is cute.
mankai on June 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I work in higher ed… we conservatives have a secret handshake since voicing our opinions would immediately mark us for extinction.
mankai on June 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM
mankai on June 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I’m no revolutionary. I’ll wait till I see at least ONE anti Obozo sticker before I get one!
Lanceman on June 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I’m sorry, but can someone tell me just who in the hell this statist, let-government-run-amok 40% is? Is it just Cali and NY? Maybe my mindset is a little overly optimistic, but I would have thought the American experiment would have taught us that Churchill was right: capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.
raxx on June 17, 2009 at 10:29 PM
It is far worse, far more dangerous and far more sinister; it is staticism.
Statism is just one of the inevitable corollaries of such an unnatural view of the world as the staticist holds in his pea-brain. It is entirely un-American, but then we knew that The Precedent hates America and everything we stand for.
progressoverpeace on June 17, 2009 at 10:30 PM
But 2 + 2 does equal 5, for large values of 2.
Right_of_Attila on June 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Already there – “profit and earnings ratios”
On a related note, the Idiot-in-Chief spoke about highway speed limits as “65 minutes and hours”.
I think it’s perfectly clear that The Precedent didn’t break 500 on the math section of his SATs.
progressoverpeace on June 17, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Whichever ones will keep it from being called racist.
29Victor on June 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Quick, more pixie dust for the masses!
There ya go. Dope n Chains!
james23 on June 17, 2009 at 10:35 PM
2+2=5?
Man, somehow I missed my talking points for today. I’ve been telling everybody 2+2=4 all day. I need to watch The Today Show more often.
mankai on June 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I wonder how hard it’s going to be for BHO to swallow this one ?
Heh.
BHO you suck, you suck hard.
StockOption on June 17, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Hope and change:
I HOPE you would not notice or mind the CHANGE in everything I do and say every other day.
bayview on June 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Please teach me the handshake! I work in higher ed, too, and in my area the ratio of libs to conservatives is seriously 500 to 1. Maybe higher.
Missy on June 17, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Bbbbbbut CNN keeps referring to DER OBAMA as “Popular President Obama”.
Me so confused.
angryed on June 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” That is subject to change.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Is he getting gray again?
ladyingray on June 17, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Yes, he’s letting his hair go gray, to look older, since the Cairo speech and subsequent follow-up….ummm.
luvstotango on June 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM
CNN is sometimes surprising to me.
I mean their reporting is so bad and biased, but today I saw a headline saying “Is America over Obama?”
Seeing as how it’s the communist news network, I was surprised by that.
B Man on June 17, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I didn’t read the story, but I’ll guess the answer was “Of course not, ya silly extinct conservatives!”
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 11:03 PM
“A recent CNN/Opinion research Corporation Poll found 42 percent of those surveyed think the increased government involvement in how businesses are run is about right — 35 percent say the involvement has gone too far, while 23 percent think the government hasn’t gone far enough.”
So either CNN or WSJ is full of crap.
angryed on June 17, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Yup. I tried explaining this to my hopenchange-deranged, leg-tingling roommate. A conservative black man would have been a much better choice, because he would be much less likely to be a spectacular failure.
But YES-WE-CAN!1! got the better of him, and now who can tell what the legacy will be with regard to future black presidents?
Still, I have another downbeat perspective on the matter.
If Barack Obama turns out to be the utter disaster he seems to be, if his policies end up transforming America into a mediocre shadow of its former greatness, it might be possible to trace it all the way back to the fundamental problem of the founding: slavery.
It may turn out that, in compromising on the matter of slavery at the time, the founding fathers might have inadvertently sown the seeds of the country’s very destruction some two hundred thirty(ish) years later.
It would be hard to blame them too much, though. How could they have anticipated the way in which twentieth century liberals would thrive on fomenting dissension and unhappiness some one hundred and fifty years after the slavery matter had finally been settled, advocating reckless policies and soft enslavement to the coffers of the state?
How could they have known that Americans would advocate soul-killing policies that would only end up harming the black community even more and nurturing generations of bitter radicals from broken families with never-ending grievances, so that even when one finally manages to achieve what most Americans will never — the presidency — all he can do once he gets there is destroy the very thing that enabled him to achieve greatness in the first place.
If that’s what happens, then the founding fathers got it wrong. They should never have compromised on slavery in order to get the Declaration of Independence. John Adams understood that, too, I think, and Barack Obama may end up proving him right.
Kensington on June 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM
CNN seems inherently crappier.
ddrintn on June 17, 2009 at 11:10 PM
but but but…I need Obama to tell me what to doooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
daesleeper on June 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM
People are now more afraid of the US government than they are of anything our enemies could throw at us. The Feds are the enemy.
If the election were held today it would be McCain in a landslide. Well maybe not a landslide but McCain would win, mainly because of Palin.
Geochelone on June 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Question #12 would imply that 70% are at leas somewhat confident in Obama’s policies. That doesn’t exactly scream a loss of confidence to me.
angryed on June 17, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Which economic measures does America have a favorable opinion of, exactly?
Allahpundit
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Based on what numbers you have posted, I don’t see really anything favorable. Most if not all are negative less the few that may be near even at best. The word favorable does not come to mind when looking at this data. I realize that this was a WSJ/NBC poll but wow, I’m not a number cruncher but I don’t see how the 51/38 ratio number adds up or makes any sense unless some data omissions are not being presented.
Americannodash on June 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Mr. Hotshot President has three balls, two chain saws, an apple, a toaster, and 6 flaming torches in the air already, after just 5 months on the job.
He can’t keep em all going for long. Healthcare reform is already startin to smell like Hillarycare redux. The rats are scurrying to their corners.
When all these moving parts decide to go thier separate ways, it’s going to be one hum dinger of a melt down at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Oh boy, this is gonna be great!
DrW on June 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM
But he’s so cool and stuff.
pjean on June 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Anyone know why this poll is taken for “cell phone only recipients”?
mph on June 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM
That implies a positive cause and effect relationship between the two.
Dr. ZhivBlago on June 17, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Sorry, that should be “cell phone only respondents“.
mph on June 17, 2009 at 11:57 PM
The available answers were different, though. CNN’s multiple choice question gave a third “Goldilocks” option – “about right.” Easy pick for fence sitters.
WSJ only had “right approach” and “wrong approach.” In this case the mushy middle had to choose, and they mostly chose “wrong.” That’s telling.
Missy on June 17, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Oops, sorry, WSJ did have a third option – “not sure.” But that’s not the same thing as “about right,” and only 5% chose it.
Missy on June 18, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Answered my own question and here is some information on polls done with cell phone only respondents.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/515/polling-cell-only-problem
mph on June 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Here is how to get America back on track:
Fire Obama
Repeal the Stimulus
Defund the UN
Cut Capital Gains taxes
Kill Cap & Trade
Cut back on social programs
Cut the corporate tax rate to 20%
Reform Social Security
Reform MediCare
Kill all Earmarks in any bills
Kill ACORN
Get rid of the Federal Reserve
Kill Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Kill the death tax
Scale back the EPA
Liquidate General Motors
Liquidate Chrysler
Let bad banks go bankrupt
No mortgage bail-out programs
Stop the eco-nazis
Nationwide tort reform
Drill anywhere 24/7 – bulk up the SOR
Throw out CAFE standards for 10 years
Close the borders to illegal immigration
AND this is what I would do if I were President
izoneguy on June 18, 2009 at 12:20 AM
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