Oh my: Obama down to 45% approval in new Zogby poll
posted at 9:00 pm on August 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
I remember back in the day when “Zogby” used to be a curse word among conservative bloggers. Change:
Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president’s job performance, just 45.3 percent of likely voters say they approve. That compares with 50.5 percent who disapprove of the job Obama is doing.
The results are a strong indication that contentious national debate over healthcare reform has taken a major toll on the president’s popularity…
Of greatest concern to Obama may well be his decline among all-important independent voters. Just 37.5 percent of self-identified independents say they approve of how Obama is handling the presidency. That compares with 59.2 percent of independents who disapprove…
Continued evidence of declining popularity there will ratchet up the pressure on congressional blue dogs and other conservative Democrats to go their own way on controversial proposals such as public-option healthcare and energy cap-and-trade, knowing they can’t rely on presidential coattails to prop them up with voters.
Quite so, which is why any righty blogger with any kind of audience should be trumpeting Obama’s declining numbers. The lower they go, the more pressure there is on Blue Dogs to kill the bill. Make sure they know it.
Dude, The One’s first term is now … totally wee-wee’d.
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Change has come.
MorningStar on August 20, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Zogby is not conservative or liberal…(well actually he is a liberal)… but he is all about making a headline…
ninjapirate on August 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I’m heartbroken.
/
Bob's Kid on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
since it is zogby I expect conservatives to discount it like they always do
liberal4eva on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
It will slide worse. Time to really gin up the swine flu now…
Ozprey on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
“The times they are a changing.”
“You don’t need a weatherman to know that Obama blows.”
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Come on guys, he’s not THAT low….yet. Zogby poll is like reading caca for the weather.
Apologetic California on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Can we get those poll numbers lower?
Yes we can!
Loxodonta on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Caution!
SouthernGent on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
me and mommypundit wee wee’d
whatever that means
blatantblue on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Wasn’t he going to be the “Post Partisan” Precedent? Can’t even bring his own Demo majorities together to pass their own bills!
chickasaw42 on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
We just did. So eff off you herpetic sore.
Apologetic California on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Independents, moderates, Libertarians (call them whatever you want) were all duped. They thought they were sacrificing fiscal responsibility for gains in the civil liberties issues. Wrong.
LastRick on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
liberal4eva on August 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
You’re right, Obama’s approval rating is far lower than 45%.
But I still like the 45% because either way, Obama is crapping the bed, big time.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Change we can believe in!
chasnleo on August 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
God, I hope that come 2012, that reads:
AUINSC on August 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
We dismiss it because it tends to be a liberal pollster that benefits liberal causes/politicians. It won’t be dismissed this time because his approval must be bad if even a liberal pollster is finding this result.
amerpundit on August 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Obama has traded his mojo for wee-weed. I wonder if that is something he smokes.
farright on August 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Can someone tell me what “wee wee’d up” means? I want to make sure I jigger it into my vocabulary.
txag92 on August 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
racist
rob verdi on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
When all polls show him going down like a cheap…….it sure shows a trend.
Howcome on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Those figures were based on data collected last week?
Obama is in freefall for the first time in his life. Have never in my lifetime seen such a drop over such a short period of time in any Presidency. One-termer, for certain.
The DNC will be placing Hillary in nomination in 2012 at this rate.
coldwarrior on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I won’t be happy until that reads 5% and we are talking about Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader DeMint
gophergirl on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
at least one of you is being consistent
liberal4eva on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
BTW, I don’t see this change lasting long… people don’t trust the republicans either…
The people are tired of both the corporate and government elites… they want small government egalitarianism… they want a social net so that people get by but they don’t want to be dictated by the government… if the republicans want to win they need to go hardcore towards focusing on individual empowerment… they need to embrace spreading the wealth and community organizing…
tax (rich) * bash (guv) * rebate * organize * create
ninjapirate on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
beat me to it!
homesickamerican on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
maybe even the BO Koolaid drinkers have discovered what a liar our POTUS is.
la.rt.wngr on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
And 99.95 percent responded “Who the f**k is Joe Biden?!”
ThePrez on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Maybe he should give another $10 billion to some other socialist country to drill offshore to create jobs anywhere but here.
That would boost his popularity, I’m sure.
Daggett on August 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
And liberals will discount Rasmussen as a wack job, until he agrees with them. Honestly, a quote from Kos himself:
Both sides play the game, troll.
LastRick on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Inevitable. you can’t only go so far with BS and platitudes. At some point the mask just falls off on its own.
MikeA on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I want him to fail.
barrythrowslikeagirl on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Oui, oui.
Doughboy on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
coldwarrior on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I’m predicting he’ll pull an LBJ and not even run for a second term.
This guy is just so exposed as a complete fraud and he’s completely over his head.
Never in history has a politician so over-promised and under delivered.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
If it was Rasmussen or Gallup I’d take notice but this is Zogby and Zogby lost all credibility back in 2004.
Hera on August 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Realistically, what in the world could anyone point to in Obama’s first 6 months to “approve” of? Stimulus, cash for clunkers, health care, Afghanistan, everything SoS Clinton has said/done — the failures are just piling one on top of the other. Then, he compounds his failure of leadership by calling 2/3 of the country ignorant racists. Turns out the presidency actually does require a certain skill set. Turns out Obama doesn’t have it.
Rational Thought on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
He may have won, as he so delightedly likes to remind anyone who doesn’t share his ideology, but man, is he ever a loser. The training wheels are falling off his presidency faster than he can (back)pedal.
ProfessorMiao on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
What is he talking about? I really have no idea what “wee wee’d” means (in this context anyway).
Also, WTF is wrong with you America? Why couldn’t you have paid attention and formed your current opinion about this SOB last November? Are there really that many millions of idiots who thought “Eh, let’s try the black guy, that makes us feel so progressive.”?
BTW, America, I feel I need to keep reminding you… This guy’s policies aren’t just “failing”. This POS is pure evil and hates everything about this country, and all of these “failures” are by design.
Oh, one other thing if you haven’t figured it out already – You know how we’ve only spent 10% of the $787 billion “emergency” stimulus? That’s because he’s going to need to flood the country with those bogus borrowed dollars when the 2012 election cycle gets going. People who may think my word “evil” is over the top needn’t look any further than this simple stimulus spending fact. What other word do you use to describe an anti-American socialist who is stealing trillions from future generations to buy his reelection?
RightWinged on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Obama limbo polls even lower now
How much further low can the Obama polls go anyhow?
First he spreads his Marxist limbo feet
Then he moves to his Mussolini limbo beat
Then he goes on national TV like Bozo the Clown some more to bleat
Obama be limbo, Obama make his polls very sick
Polls go way unda Obama limbo stick
MB4 on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Obama’s a narcissist. He’s always looking at himself. How can he not know what a wee-wee is?
Loxodonta on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
gophergirl on August 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I like your attitude!
Go for jughead’s jugular.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
let the sunshine,
let the sunshine in,
the sunshine in.
Randy
williars on August 20, 2009 at 9:09 PM
The number of racists in this country seems to be growing on a daily basis.
BPD on August 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
He`ll just change it from Hope and Change to Change and Hope. That`ll fool `em.
ThePrez on August 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
WATERLOO!!!
Lance Murdock on August 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Not all Libertarians were duped- certainly not this one.
Monica on August 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Ok if that’s Zogby… then what are the REAL numbers?
I mean if they are coving for the Liberal/Left/Progressive/Socialist side of things and he has this sort of numbers, then what are the real ones, un-inflated?
I’ll wait for Rasmussen… but Pew has an interesting set of numbers on ‘Would Medicare pass today?’
ajacksonian on August 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I don’t think that can be said but I must admit I am goofing on it current course. Keep up the pressure folks.
Cindy Munford on August 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Rasmussen’s had him between 48-51% for weeks and Gallup shows him declining steadily to the low 50′s. So they’re not far off from Zogby. Hell, even the NBC polls are bad and they’re oversampling Dems while surveying adults as opposed to registered or likely voters.
Doughboy on August 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM
The only way Obama’s poll numbers can go up would be a national televised broadcast:
“My fellow Americans, tonight I am offering my resignation as President of the United States effective midnight tonight…I offer my sincere apologies to the American people. I was not, am not, qualified to serve any longer as your President….”
The resounding applause across America would be earth shattering.
coldwarrior on August 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Actually, I think Pelosi and Reid tried to time it to ensure Democrats’ success in 2010. But either way, the ‘stimulus’ was a boondoggle. The only good thing about it is that it looks to be coming back to bite them all on the a$$.
ProfessorMiao on August 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Of course it still is. Zogby may be a crummy pollster but now he’s our crummy pollster.
Dusty on August 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Whites’ biggest fear is probably being called “racist”, likely more so than being accused of being a pedophile. So, they looked for a way to absolve themselves of the guilt of racism committed by others before them and Obama was there. “Perfect” timing. Hopefully, this is the end of it. At some point, whites have to stop feeling guilty.
LastRick on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Don’t mean to pee in the Cheerios here, but I just want to note that these will go back up when something eventually passes.
A lot of this is Democrat frustration at his inability to get something – anything – resembling the public plan (which, after all, is what most liberal Democrats want and what Obama has admitted to supporting) into the bill with supermajorities in both houses and a lock on the WH.
It won’t go back up much, but it will go back up.
Once the foot is in the door, they will keep trying to add to it.
Good Lt on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Did Matt Groening steal “D’OH!” from you?
Patrick S on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
There is something wrong here, Rassmuson has bamster at 50% and the lib zogby at 45% approval. I will take it, though I doubt he will ever go below 35% approval.
farright on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
“I`ve uh….decided that uh….I`ve done all that I uh, uh, uh……can do and uh, it`s time for me to uh, step aside…………….Uh”
ThePrez on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
There you go.
Loxodonta on August 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
funny how nobody thought in their wildest imagination that health care would be a problem for this president and this congress.
Now he is saying he’s David fighting Goliath again. He IS Goliath in this debate. Congress IS Goliath in this debate.
ThackerAgency on August 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Yah know its bad when the Congessional Quarterly reports McCain has been 100% in opposition to Oh!
chickasaw42 on August 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Hmmmmm…maybe Zogby is right!?!? ARG polls him at a 52%, but their party ID’s is WAY weighted to democrats…
SouthernGent on August 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Heh, heh, gotta remember that one. :)
ThePrez on August 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Should I dare to dream??? President DeMint…..
TxAnn56 on August 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I hope this piece of crap reaches the 18% mark (18% think we should be pure socialist).
Only then will the f*ckers that voted for him be even partially redeemed.
Spiritk9 on August 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Barack Whoweeweed Obama you have met your Waterloo.
canditaylor68 on August 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Wee!
John the Libertarian on August 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Sarah’s driving him crazy. He can’t even say her name!
Ted Torgerson on August 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
It isn’t the contentious national debate. It is the PROLONGED national debate that increasingly has the filthy liar in the White House asserting that the people’s voice doesn’t matter.
The filthy liar appears to be correct in his assessment that his Presidency is over if healthcare wasn’t rammed through before the August recess.
highhopes on August 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Sorry, I used to be one of Zog’s polling samples, and can’t trust anything they say-even this one.
When we get widespread similar polling results, OK
Del Dolemonte on August 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Wee-wee’d out.
What a little girl.
greggriffith on August 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Perhaps the liberal approval will go up, but it will be countered by people pissed off that this bag of crap Pelosi and Reid engineered, passed at all.
People don’t like it when idiots screw with something important, like their health care.
I think he falls to 35% and stays there until he resigns.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
who wants to smoke some wee wee’d
blatantblue on August 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I’m going to go against the grain.
Obama’s numbers are getting downright poopy.
fogw on August 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Holy party ID advantage, Batman.
amerpundit on August 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM
For the last couple of months zogby has been a week or so ahead of the curve. I don’t know their data collecting methods, but they’re on a little bit of a roll lately.
Spiritk9 on August 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Gotta say it. Had the cranky old RINO been in 100% opposition to the filthy liar in the White House during the campaign the outcome might have been different. At the time, McCain was offering Obama-lite.
highhopes on August 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Hope you’re right, but I’d prefer that they just don’t do a health care bill at all and just tweak a few laws with some relatively inexpensive tort reform.
Good Lt on August 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I can’t argue with you on that. It’s occurred to me too.
atheling on August 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I guess the world has come to an end now that conservatives are now referencing the zogby poll.
Off topic, why can’t conservatives compromise on anything? We all know there has to be some government involved in a critical program like health care.We already compromised by giving up the single payer.
Why don’t you just give us our public option and you guys add all your fluffy interstate and tort reform rules to the existing plan.
Afrolib on August 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I wouldn’t mind seeing president Boehner and VP DeMint. Let’s try electing a couple of adults.
jhffmn on August 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Because if we give you goons an inch, you’ll take the whole foot.
blatantblue on August 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Hot damn!
The Chief of the Lemmings is leading his flock right off a cliff. And they seem to be picking up their pace.
JoeinTX on August 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Why don’t you explain how the Constitution authorizes the government to take over health care?
Patrick S on August 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I won’t be happy till the poll numbers start with a 3
PatriotRider on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
And this little piggy cried wee-wee-wee all the way home…back to Chicago.
karlant on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
To compromise on something that is not Constitutional? Open the door a little bit and it will be forced open, never to be closed again.
When you compromise your principles, you have no principles.
coldwarrior on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Wee weeeeeeeeeee…
Ogabe on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
The little piggy cried wee-wee-wee all the way back to chicago…
TN Mom on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Bob Beckel suggested offering tort reform, but do you really think the Democrats would even think about that?
Tort lawyers are their biggest donors.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
There is a tipping point. At some point the President cannot rise above his low poll numbers. We are not there yet and the media is doing it’s damndest to keep them up but the filthy liar in the White House cannot be below 50% for very long before damage is done.
Let’s keep this in perspective. The filthy liar is only 8 months into his term of office and already more Americans disapprove of his actions than approve. Gonna be a long four years.
highhopes on August 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Allah’s link in:
goes to a Politico article that has this:
INC on August 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Hey! Get out of my brain! ;)
karlant on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
MB4 on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
karlant on August 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I owe you a beer! Didn’t see your post before I posted mine…
funny!
TN Mom on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I think this is due primarily to the fact that the Obama “administration” and Congressional Democrats haven’t called Americans who oppose them, enough nasty names.
It’s time for the gloves to come off.
You’re all double dog dare Hitlarian racist thug evil mongering fishy poopy pants.
So there.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I took that Zogby poll. One of the questions was “are you proud that Barack Obama is your president?”. WEE WEED UP? Yeah, I’m proud.
ctmom on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I’ve been polled online by Zogby for almost ten years. I am identified as “very conservative” and “republican”. Since the election, I have yet to get a survey on my opinion of Obama.
I have been getting surveys on my shopping habits, name recognition of business leaders, but nothing on Obama. Yet, in the past 9 years, I had been polled steadily on my opinion of George W. Bush.
They don’t want my opinion on Obama, apparently.
atheling on August 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Why can’t AP include this Wall Street Journal poll claiming 77% of Americans want the public option?
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5ba17aa2-f1b9-4445-a6b8-62b9d1ba8693
Afrolib on August 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Obama is like SuperBush. It took Bush a few years to drive away the independents. Obama did it in a few months.
pearson on August 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Yes We
CanFAIL!29Victor on August 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
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