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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I am very satisfied with my healthcare. Why don’t you and the government keep the hell out of my life?
Blake on August 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM
American Power tracked-back with, ‘Early Post-Mortems on ObamaCare: Don’t Forget the Tea Parties!’
Donald Douglas on August 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM
LOL
You might has well just linked an AOL HOT SEAT POLL
welcome_ghosts on August 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Wake me when he gets to 39.
JellyToast on August 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I heard a great argument the other day. Why do liberals want the government to keep their hands off our uterus but want their hands all over the rest of our body(with healthcare?)
TTheoLogan on August 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM
President Wee-Wee is going down mighty fast. We may be getting conflicting numbers, but the trend sure shows a downward motion for Little Wee-Wee.
yogi41 on August 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
That’s hilarious.
labwriter on August 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
The thinking Americans are starting to figure out that Obiden was wrong.
Not only do Presidente Pinnochios’, Mr. clean and articulate, feet stink, as Michelle told us, his ideas and policies do also, and
Lyin pretty, when on telepromter and lyin ugly, when not, is NOT articulate!
I’m with Rush, I hope he fails!
Worst Presidente EVAH!
dhunter on August 20, 2009 at 10:35 PM
All’s I know to say is “merci beaucoup.”
hoosiermama on August 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Tears of joy.
Jaibones on August 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Okay: I’m not picking on Ann.
Happy now?
[ps: Now, I'm picking on you, Lance.]
Loxodonta on August 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I asked you not to tell me that!
Now I have no choice but to format incorrectly.
Lanceman on August 20, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Exactly, GBA.
I won’t be the least bit surprised to see man bite dog, and the leftists suddenly overwhelmed by the need to pass “tort reform” because “this is what is needed for truly bipartisan healthcare reform”, and somehow find the Trial Liars Association supporting “this tough but necessary concession”, which will turn out to be complete and total BS.
Jaibones on August 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Why don’t you get a job and stop expecting your neighbor to take care of you?
And by the way, once the public option takes hold, tort reform and interstate “fluff” will be moot.
xblade on August 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
And that’s OK.
I’m picking on Upstater on QOD.
Lanceman on August 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
From your lips to Allah’s ears, o Philosopher King. Mwahah.
fiatboomer on August 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM
I’m at a loss. I don’t even think I can get giddy with schadenfraude any longer. This is just too weird beyond all weirdness.
something is up.
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Doesn’t some prominent opponent of his death care bill have some embarrassing divorce papers He can leak?
darwin-t on August 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Speaking of O’Biden, where’s he been? Haven’t seen him since he was the token white at the beer party.
NYconservative on August 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Where are the large enthusiastic, fainting and fawning, screaming and cheering CROWDS?
Where?
All we get are stacked town halls with nonsense jibberish being put out.
Obama has lost his MoJo and the only thing he can do to gin it back up is to start community organizing!!
James on August 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
It’s funny when he grasps at straws, isn’t it? teheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
NathanG on August 20, 2009 at 10:49 PM
At least Obama has stayed out of Texas so far.
James on August 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
What? Not more cowbell?
NathanG on August 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
I dunno. Checking out chicks in the Balkans?
atheling on August 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I think there is going to be a new market for political epitaphs here soon. As well as MSM epitaphs.
I can’t wait to jimmy up my writin’ skills and pen up a few missives on what happens to all the congressmen when they go off to the Little Home for the Former Congressman back in parts unknown next year.
Moreover, I can’t wait to write Rahm’s, Valerie’s, Timmy Boy’s and I’ll have a beer, then write The Won’s.
Will he ever say, “I Lost.”
as i predicted in july, it’s a cruel, cruel summer (thanks bananarama)
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Finally, someone willing to talk about the “real issues”.
As in, what can Democrats do to distract people long enough to slide this crap sandwich past Congress?
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
where’s the pillars, where the halo, where’s the rain soaked speeches, where’s the soaring rhetoric, where’s the change…. where’s the … the leadership….
massive, epic failure.
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Okay, I wonder if this is the Zogby poll I received via email and took last night? I do have a concern about the Independents that are mentioned–that was the selection I made. I wish I could remember the exact language, but I think it asked if I was a registered Republican (no), registered Democrat (hell no), and then the next category was Independent/Unaffiliated and it may have said something else, too. I chose the unaffiliated option which also happens to be Independent. So, while I am not somebody who would vote for a Dem (especially not for US Congress or President), my results of strong disapproval with Obama get categorized as if I am an Independent who can be swayed–maybe, though, I was an anomaly and most people who responded are what we consider true Independents. While I am happy to see these poll results, I think the value of this poll is that it confirms the trend we are seeing, but that’s about it.
reallyfive on August 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM
This poll is hopelessly skewed, Barry’s supporters are all voting “present” to honor their hero and role model.
NoDonkey on August 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Zogby is a racist.
jukin on August 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Conservatives don’t have to “give you anything”. Dems have the votes. You mean, after months of “WE WON!!! YEAH, BABY!!! EAT IT, CONS!!!” and controlling both houses of Congress as well as the White House, you have to rely on “compromise” with conservatives? Gutless. The libs just don’t want to take responsibility for their garbage.
ddrintn on August 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM
This guy’s fake folksie babble is getting beyond self-parody.
Wee wee’d up??? How, um… presidential, I guess?
Every dictator in the world watching, too. They must be quaking in their boots. At least he’s focusing on the real enemy, grey-haired flag waving patriots who want to keep the country they know and love.
Lex on August 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
We’ll start to take out their garbage for them in 2010 and complete the task in 2012. To use an old saying, “Throw out the bums!”
NathanG on August 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM
This guy’s talking about preaching, we’re talking about something that rhymes with that…..
ted c on August 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I never thought Barry would make Jimmy Carter look competent. But he’s surpassed all expectations.
People who lived through those days were smart enough not to believe that 2004 was the “worst economy in 75 years”, and they are righteously P.O.’d right now…
now if the GOP can just not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…
phreshone on August 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I would love to be excited about the latest polls; however, I fear that Obama has done so much damage to the economy that it will be difficult to ever fix.
mobydutch on August 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Incredible, utterly breathtaking that with the media absolutely complicit, with no actual opposition in the house/senate, with a predecessor demonized, surfing into office on a tidal wave of good will… somehow, from a head start like that, this bozo is managing to bring himself undone in a matter of months.
A fox news article reports his ACORN and SEIU goons are getting burnout from all the campaign-mode stuff, the door knocking, all that. The wicked witch is melting.
Lex on August 20, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Well in the words of his Reverend Wright, ” The chickens have come home to roost”.
Hobbes on August 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
His administration will look back on this as “the good old days.”
Star20 on August 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Waterloo, Normandy, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Bulge, Gettysburgh, Thermopylae, and Shiloh times a bazillion. Bring it on. Let Freedom Ring and Ring Loud.
THE CHOSEN ONE on August 20, 2009 at 11:12 PM
At this point discounting would be as correct as when the President enjoy 70% approval, because its still Zogby instead of 43.3% a standard deviation would put his approval at around say 38.3%, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, pathetic President, but people still do think he’s charming.
Obama is sort of like a pit viper that smiles while it injects you with poison.
Speakup on August 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM
LMAO
He will realize that, Things did change after the Honeymoon!
BigMike252 on August 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Perhaps they wee-wee’d in the Kool-Aid.
redwhiteblue on August 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Palin was right. Her convention speech that is. She will keep throwing grenades at him until he takes his little wee-wee home. Wait till President Wee Wee is a afraid of his own shadow.
Clyde5445 on August 20, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Its Zogby.
El_Terrible on August 20, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Just can’t understand why people think this man is charming. He’s arrogant, looks down his nose on people when he makes speeches and when off the teleprompter uses Chicago street thug terms.
Hobbes on August 20, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Isn’t a water loo where you wee wee?
Dhuka on August 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I can’t figure him out. I don’t agree that he’s arrogant. Maybe sometimes, like with the “get out of the way” remark, but then again that could have just been political play. I certainly don’t agree with people who say that he’s a great speech maker. People on both the left and the right have said that. I can see right through his “pretty words” and cringe every time I heard him speak about “seas parting” and such. It sounds like a high school creative writing class. Get real Obama, please. I majored in Literature in college and wrote better stuff than that. Too much flowery speech doesn’t create a mandate for healthcare, now does it?
NathanG on August 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Just like ole slick Willie, that’s all that matters for Democrat voters, the moral and the Patriotic need not apply.
Speakup on August 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM
From the Politico story AP referenced in the post:
In other words, their usual lies and deceptions and stealth. People won’t buy it.
ddrintn on August 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Oui! Oui!
Chuck Schick on August 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Sorry Lance Mrudock, I hadn’t read your post!
Dhuka on August 20, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I’m sure those 55% are all just a bunch of racist rightwing nazi’s. They all get their daily talking points from Rush Limbaugh during the afternoons. At night they put on their Brooks Brothers suits, and scream at townhalls. Usually bringing their assault weapons. Then the next morning they cash in their checks from the RNC and health insurers.
I’m sure that 55% are just the fringe right wingers. If only all those Blue Dog Democrats would just listen so they could cram this sucker down everyone’s throat…then they’d really be cooking!
In January, the theme was that the republicans were completely irrelevant and without a leader. Just about half a year later, they are responsible for killing progress in Washington. Amazing how things change. Don’t blink!
stldave on August 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Laugh while you can, fool, as your time is soon coming. It ain’t going to be very pretty, either.
After all, the true enemy of government-educated morons such as yourself is cold, hard reality, which is about to run over you freedom-hating lefties in much of the manner of a freight train.
:-)
Dave R. on August 20, 2009 at 11:43 PM
This is kind of like watching a “train wreck.” It would be fun to watch, if only I wasn’t on the train.
Star20 on August 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!!”
rockmom on August 21, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Believe it might be the same folks who thought OJ was innocent.
Christian Conservative on August 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM
On a more serious note, I don’t think I’ve heard a sane person use terms like this when talking to adults, let alone before the eyes of the world. Barry may be losing what marbles he ever had. And that wasn’t many to start with. Heads up America…
Lex on August 21, 2009 at 12:35 AM
I was thinking Obama was losing the battle until the wee-wee remark
That was a deal clincher, I hope he uses it a lot.
How would Obama say it? DC is wee-wee’d up, the Townhalls are are full of the pee-pee’d off and the poo-poo has hit the fan. We should engrave it in granite so no one forgets this turning point in American history
entagor on August 21, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Obama came out today strongly in favor of public option. Personally, I think he had to take a stand.
I also am in favor of public option, and I think it would benefit small business.
I also believe that Republicans aren’t offering much to business these days. They seem mired down and not about real people. It’s all ideology. That may be why they are losing support.
AnninCA on August 21, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Sometimes I get a little sad for people who get polled low…call it sympathy for the underdog.
Then I remember who we’re talking about here.
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 12:48 AM
It’s a racist poll
The Notorious G.O.P on August 21, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Anna, we aren’t ALLOWED TO OFFER ANYTHING TO BUSINESSES. What the heck…
how will this help small businesses?
what would you like to “hear” republicans offer that we even could? What else can we do but offer a bill or amendments that will certainly be shot down? And, when you say “ideology” what specifically do you mean?
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Who’s losing support?
Who’s all about ideology?
blink on August 21, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Peter Seller’s made a movie where he was an idiot, all the smart politicians thought he was a genius.they would ask him a question and any answer he gave the press was perfect according to them.They were going to run him for president.
That is Obama in a nut shell. the man is an idiot, but no one on the democratic side wants to be the one to call him on it.
BruceB on August 21, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Here are the results of Zogby’s 3 last polls including tonights:
7/24 8/5 8/20
F UF F UF F UF
OBAMA
OVERALL 48 49 53 38 45.3 50.5
REP 6 16 5.7
INDIES 40 52 37.5
Clearly Zogby uses a special kind of ‘sauce’. His fluctuations especially in the indie F/UF are outrageous in how wild the swings are.
Having said that I think this poll does debunk the findings of the PPP poll, also released today, which shows Obama still sitting pretty and also with a 14 point lead over a matchup with Palin which I am beginning to believe now is completely bogus especially with an 18% oversampling of post-grads (35% of poll is post grads, while only 17% voted in Nov 2008 according to exit polls).
technopeasant on August 21, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Oh, ok then.
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM
So the Democrats put a man whose resume was absolutely devoid of any executive experience whatsoever in the highest executive position in the land: what could go wrong?
Predictably:
1. Congress is off scribbling graffiti on the Constitution without any adult supervision.
2. Department heads and even Cabinet members are off “doing their thing” without any guidance…frequently expressing ideas which publicly embarrass the White House.
3. There is no mechanism for filtering impractical, counterproductive, or harmful legislative or administrative SPAM out of the system. Consequently a lot of what is being attempted is completely impractical, unworkable, unacceptable to the public, or otherwise doomed to failure.
4. The chief executive, having no practical experience in doing anything, is completely unable to articulate a guiding philosophy which everyone (including the general population) can salute and which can be used to guide decisions and action; is completely unable to define how to measure progress; and is totally incapable of changing direction to avoid problems. This guarantees continuing chaos, as nobody in government can know what they are expected to do. Nobody has any idea where the ship of state is headed, and nobody will steer around the iceberg anyway because to change direction would be an admission that they were wrong.
Result: CARTER II: Shoot yourself in the foot, and then shoot your other foot.
landlines on August 21, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Excellent. I’d add only this, “And they like it like that.”
I believe that all of this chaos only serves their purposes. I have tried to understand how anyone could do/say what they are, perpetually, and it only makes sense that they seek no real “solution” and tumult helps them, ultimately. It’s either that or the whole lot of them have peas for brains. I tend to believe there is more ideology behind the madness, at least for a few of them.
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 1:43 AM
So, his numbers are so bad, he has to do this to keep the Gay vote.
Sad.
Loxodonta on August 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Being There.
Obama is Chauncy Gardner. I remember Krauthammer wrote of it last fall, before election day.
Perfect comparison. As I recall, the media were absolute morons in that film. Must watch it just for the satisfaction of seeing the drive bys portrayed like total idiots.
atheling on August 21, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Is she still living in August 2008? Their numbers are going UP, not down. Now, granted, if they can get their crap together, they might be able to implode the Democratic majority by 2012 (God willing they will in the 2010 House races).
NathanG on August 21, 2009 at 1:49 AM
ha!
I know. I was reading it and thinking, “No. There is no reality there.” I kind of felt badly for her.
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 2:02 AM
I was telling someone this the other day and checked out the book at the library. The movie is a little different but not much…and the similarities are many, I definitely agree.
Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Here’s the source material being used from Huff’n'Puff:, followed by my explanations:
The actual question read: Do you support the public option of removing President Obama from office by voting against him in the 2012 presidential election?
The actual description read by the pollsters: President Obama’s health care plan is in critical condition and is approaching death fast.
Loxodonta on August 21, 2009 at 2:15 AM
Amazing how life imitates art, isn’t it?
atheling on August 21, 2009 at 2:16 AM
I expect things will soon get even more dismal at Pennsylvania Avenue. That poll was likely conducted before Obama made that stupidly juvenile “wee-weed up” remark. OMG, if Bush had said that…
PoodleSkirt on August 21, 2009 at 3:05 AM
Now, now, he just failed to calibrate his words well.
atheling on August 21, 2009 at 3:12 AM
Yes we should. I’m not a graphic designer, but I’d like to suggest a potential design for consideration:
Sketch:
http://i32.tinypic.com/zvpsib.jpg
Inspiration:
http://i28.tinypic.com/fekyn7.jpg
Source material:
http://sanjii.deviantart.com/art/Wal-Mart-Badge-ID-76841894
Just need a real artist to pull it together, make it look real, and pin it to O which shouldn’t be very difficult, seeing how there are so many shots of him available with the suit jacket off.
Make it so. ;-)
notta_dhimmi on August 21, 2009 at 3:19 AM
In the infinite wisdom of Mel Brooks, the people are tired of being showered with “number 1″ and are finally realizing our CIC is full of cocky doody. Apparently, we’ve all been wee-wee’d up…or on.
wordsmithy2009 on August 21, 2009 at 3:59 AM
Rodney King riots in democrat strongholds can only galvanize the conservative vote.
darktood on August 21, 2009 at 4:14 AM
That 45% is probably a bit low – but it wouldn’t surprise me to see that figure repeated in more polls in the coming weeks.
This backlash to health care reform is amazing. America finally appears to have woken up a bit. Will it last?
I’m still worried that somehow this is going to get shoved down our throats in ways that challenge legality. Hopefully the Blue Dogs won’t sell out America to the far left radicals in control.
Mr Purple on August 21, 2009 at 4:43 AM
Waterloo, huh?
We conservatives have no Blucher or Wellington.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 21, 2009 at 5:12 AM
White House puppy time.
yoda on August 21, 2009 at 6:35 AM
45%? When it gets to 39, SELL!
Jeff from WI on August 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Obama came out today strongly in favor of unicorns. Personally, I think he had to take a stand.
I also am in favor of unicorns, and I think it would benefit small business.
I also believe that Republicans aren’t offering much to business these days. They seem mired down and not about real people. It’s all ideology. That may be why they are losing the unicorns.
Jeff from WI on August 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Obama is getting wee-weed on by his fellow Americans. And you know what happens to an idol with clay feet when he gets hosed. The One will come crashing down like those big statues of Saddam and Stalin did.
RandyChandler on August 21, 2009 at 7:37 AM
I think it’s high time Michelle stepped up to the podium and sternly reminded us that she could revoke her pride in America.
Alden Pyle on August 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM
I wonder how he now feels to have Bush’s poll numbers?
elduende on August 21, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Chris tingle is looking a little more “shriveled”, like coming out of a cold shower?
right2bright on August 21, 2009 at 8:12 AM
The guy is so accustomed to using rhetoric to talk his way out of anything, he’s beside himself. Speaking with religious leaders yesterday, he was using bible speak. It’s almost comical to watch.
The more he opens his mouth, the deeper the hole he’s digging for himself. Obama is a professional campaigner and nothing more.
The people of this country, who voted for him and possess brains, are finally on to him. Throw in Pelosi and Reid and we have a trio of stooges running this country into the ground.
orlandocajun on August 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Oui, I like weed.
angryed on August 21, 2009 at 9:06 AM
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