Oh my: Obama hits 50% job approval in Gallup
posted at 3:38 pm on August 27, 2009 by Allahpundit
Alternate headline: “Time for the daily ‘Obama’s polling hits new low’ post.” Watching his numbers crater as the ObamaCare debacle drags on reminds me of the end of “The Last Crusade,” where Indy can’t resist reaching for the grail even though he’s about to fall into the crevasse. The One needs a kindly father figure, preferably with a brogue of some sort, to look him in the eye and say, “Indiana? Let it go.”
Teddy could have been that father figure. Ah well. Context from the LA Times:
Should the slide continue, Obama will by no means be the first president to slide below 50% in the Gallup Poll, which has been tracking public approval of presidents since Harry S. Truman.
But Obama has reached his new low more quickly than most of his predecessors did, according to Gallup. The percentage of people voicing disapproval for the job the president is performing also stands at a near-high of 43%.
Slipping below 50% before November of the first year in office would represent “the third-fastest drop” since World War II, Gallup reports. Republican Gerald Ford slipped below 50% in his third month as president, Democrat Bill Clinton during his fourth month.
It took Republican President Eisenhower five years to fall below 50% in the public’s eye, Gallup notes. It took both Republican George Bushes about three years. It took Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Richard Nixon more than two years.
Rasmussen’s got him at 50 percent today, too. Exit question: How much of a bounce will The One get from the “Do it for Teddy!” push on health care? He’s delivering one of the eulogies at Friday’s ubiquitously televised memorial service so he’s bound to pick up some residual goodwill points. But enough to rebound on ObamaCare? Democrat Mary Landrieu told a crowd at lunch yesterday — after the news about Kennedy had broken — that she probably won’t vote for a public option. If Camelot can’t get the Blue Dogs to hedge on the very day of Kennedy’s passing, how much influence will it have really?
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California Uber Alles…..catchy tune for today, huh? Nazi Punks F-Off….I think Jello Biafra was on to something here….the future.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
The ugly one.
1921 C DRUM on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
That’s funny.
bloggless on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
There isn’t much looking up to do… the way those bad boys cling to the arse cheeks, there is now way!
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Again, you have to be more specific…
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Police in front and behind….on television, following every turn…..L.A. in 1994…murderers, the both of them. Yes. You got it.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Any predictions at which face Nanzi will be wearing to the funeral?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:06 PM
The same one she always does. The one that looks like a deer in the headlights.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Would a “splat” be more appropriate?
Mangy Scot on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Stop! Where is that raccoon story again….my eyes! my eyes!
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Important note: Gallup polls “adults” which always poll more favorably for democrats.
SouthernGent on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Here all this time, I thought you were my bud..
TXMomof3 on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Yer much too slow…
ladyingray on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Ask Dagget.
Are you suggesting that Micbama bites?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM
I’m thinking more of a “plop”.
bloggless on August 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Now that the liberal lion has passed, ordinary Americans can use their garlic and silver crosses to put to rest the Obama Poll numbers.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
You know, most people just want to keep what they earn and live their lives freely. What is it with Washington that makes these people lose sight of this. It ain’t the money, so it has to be the lust for power. Call it the Napoleon Complex. It is high time for all of these people to meet their Waterloo.
jimmy2shoes on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
I was kicking myself for not linking it.
chunderroad on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Followed by a “flush”?
Mangy Scot on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Just look at it as great minds.
jimmy2shoes on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM
As if that wasn’t bad enough news for His Luminence, he seems to be losing popularity across the big water…
“We hate you guys. Once you start issuing $1 trillion-$2 trillion… we know the dollar is going to depreciate, so we hate you guys but there is nothing much we can do.”
Things are going to get worse than any of us can possibly imagine.
Cricket624 on August 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
my short-term memory isn’t what it used to be but it’s pretty hard to forget something that was in our faces 24/7 for months on end. and yes..both murders. Maybe if I had TeddyCare I could get some good memory boostin drugs ;)
lyfsatrip on August 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Definitely. Maybe that cupcake thingy she stole from her daughter’s closet…. the one she wore in London touring Parliament.
Sorry. I haven’t recovered from that shocka myself. Still wake up screaming.
Cody1991 on August 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne’s children don’t care.
either orr on August 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM
It was too obvious. Every face Nanzi has is ugly.
either orr on August 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM
As long as she brings the Hello Kitty backpack… Or was it a fannypack?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM
You’re being sarcastic but I’ll respond sincerely:
Obama has not crafted one bill, Congress does this. If anything, he’s been accused of letting Congress do too much. Our complaints should primarily be with them on the spending issue.
We knew this when we elected him: three years in the Senate, hardly any executive experience. So you’re saying we’re willing to put lack of experience aside when elected to the Presidency but on day one, the President has to be fully experienced?
A valid point. But is that worth a favorability drop of around 15-20% this quickly? Seems very unlikely.
Once again, we put too much stock in the President, who doesn’t craft laws or debate their legality, things left to the other two branches.
LastRick on August 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Jello was a broken clock… right about hippies going totally 1984 / Nazi Germany on people but wrong on SO much other stuff.
teke184 on August 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM
What I don’t get is how the number of approve/disapprove doesn’t add to 100%. How can you be indifferent? Oh wait I remember now. Americans are brain dead morons who can tell you the time and place of birth of each American Idol winner but don’t know the name of their senator.
angryed on August 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Hmmm…money maybe?
Christian Conservative on August 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Let’s not forget that these polls are being done supposedly while people aren’t paying attention. Should be interesting to see what next month’s numbers look like.
Del Dolemonte on August 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Ahhhh…memories..thanks for the trip down memory lane, chunderroad.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Thank you, Oprah.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM
True, but Presidents can influence legislation. Obama let Pelosi and Reid put all sorts of pork in the “Stimulus” Bill, he could have used his position to keep that crap out. He didn’t have to sign it.
“We?”. I took my one measly vote and used it to back his opponent. I don’t have the supersoaker ACORN vote.
What is worth a favorability drop is that the media and this guy promised a 180 turn and has failed miserably. Things have got worse since he was elected, not better.
The stimulus Bill sucked and the Cash for Clunkers fiasco shows that this administration cannot even handle small tasks. The bloom is off the rose.
You can’t over promise and then under deliver to this extent. Not as President.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM
“Barack was the dog’s name.”
Jim Treacher on August 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM
I read a neat post in SDA. They asked that if this is all about Camelot or end of Camelot, why can’t we talk about the lady in the lake? Then they linked to the Monty Python clip of the lady in the lake.
Old Country Boy on August 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Pollster has him at 49.8% today.
Advocate For Change on August 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Ouch…
That’s going to leave a scare.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Old Country Boy on August 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
That was a quote from our very own Jim Treacher.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Tim Hawkins’ salute to big gov’t:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0&feature=popt00us06
jgapinoy on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
OT a bit but found this interesting.
ABC News has a link where you can post your “memories” of the Kennedy’s. Suffice it to say there isn’t one glowing comment, pretty much about drugs, alcohol, abuse of power, Mary Jo, etc. However, this comment really stuck out and summed it all up…
“I have a feeling that the comments here won’t be reported on ABC News this evening – lol. However, if they had been about George Bush, they would have been the lead in story.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
lyfsatrip on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
*snort
Scare was supposed to be scar, but scare works too.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
What is it that the 50% approve of?
whitetop on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
whitetop on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
His choice in puppies.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Form the realms of my psyche. Enjoy
FontanaConservative on August 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Ah-hah! The Kennedy boost!
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM
How many children in Vietnam lost their lives sewing that monstrosity?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM
The . . . voices . . . in . . . their . . . head . . . they’re . . . so . . . familiar . . . yet . . . so . . . far . . . away
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
“My dear girl, don’t flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for king and country. You don’t think it gave me any pleasure, do you?”
TMK on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Ah-hah! The Kennedy boost!
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Look, I may be a Memphis boy and I may have talked to Jerry Lawler a few times. But I did not mean those puppies.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Ugh. Thanks, FonCon, I’m going to have to remove my eyeballs and soak them in bleach for a month.
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
All I know is that she has a permanent fanny pack. No one can convince me that she works out with a trainer everyday. No way. If she does, it’s a waste of time. That gal looks like she keeps her face in a feed bag. Health food, my arse.
The funniest thing from the foreign newspapers during their trip to Yerp was the breathless speculation that MO might be pregnant.
Cody1991 on August 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Apparently, 50% of those polled would give an arsonist a favorable job approval rating if he lit their houses on fire.
whitetop on August 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM
moobs?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Like this? http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_wearable_feedbags_let
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Yup
jgapinoy on August 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM
moobs?
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Nope. I did have a manager like that once, though. I was talking about dogs. And not Jeanean Garofalo either.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Yeah, but Slick Willy got re-elected and folks still remember “his” economy with fond remembrance.
If Obama ran tomorrow, the pinheads would still vote for him.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM
You and I didn’t and probably most people on here didn’t vote for Obama. My point (“We knew this when we elected him”) was there is a significant portion of voters who must have voted for Obama but disapprove of him now — the numbers tell us as much. However, capejasmine was suggesting lack of experience was one of the reasons voters have soured. The problem with this mindset is, if voters are only now post-election worried about Obama’s lack of experience (and are showing it through a drop in polling) then this is primarily an indictment of the voters, not Obama.
Secondly, as it’s related to the first point, other presidents have under-delivered before — No New Taxes, anyone? Yet, HW’s favorability didn’t crater as fast as Obama’s. Why the different standard?
LastRick on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Yeah, as was I previously. Didn’t Kennedy give him the puppy? Thus the Kennedy boost.
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Everything, as long as the battery in their implanted mind control device is still good.
Daggett on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Oh. I don’t know. He probably did.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/mutts/blog/2009/08/kennedy_the_man_to_thank_for_b.html
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Glad I could help HS :)
FontanaConservative on August 27, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Jimmah Carter on steroids.
One term presidency.
petefrt on August 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM
lolololololol…..yeah! Although she would need a super-size bag.
Cody1991 on August 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I remember the ’88 campaign, HW was not hyped like Obama was. No one had any great expectations for the Bush I Presidency. At that point, the country was on the right track.
Obama got elected by portraying the state of our country in the worst possible light and gave all indications that he would instantly solve all of our problems. Did he say that?
No, but I would argue that the majority of people who voted for him, believed he would. He made it sound like all of our problems were the result of George Bush and that he knew how to fix everything. He had a plan for everything.
And now? There’s nothing that Obama has “fixed”. Not one thing. And people are starting to realize that he doesn’t have the answers.
You can’t campaign on being a miracle man and then fall as flat as this. The first Bush never claimed to be a miracle man, this guy did and the media promoted him as such.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Upstater85 on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
By the way, puppies! is what Lawler would joyfully announce every time the women wreslters would make their appearence in reference to their topsides.
kingsjester on August 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM
The bounce that keeps on falling. Depending on the presentation of the poll, numbers might roam during the spiral down. But down he goes all on his own basis. And enablers only drag others on down with him and themselves.
The rose colored glasses are off. People smell the coffee. Obama’s bandwagon isn’t air conditioned and the stench from his road kill can no longer be ignored. He’s targeting us all for prosecution. His owners will make GITMO look like kindergarten if Obama has his way selling us out to foreign powers.
In order to regain any degree of confidence from the American population whom he continues to abuse with utter antipathy, Obama would actually have to make good on his promises to the voters: drop his racial hang-ups, and CUT TAXES FOR EVERYONE EARNING LESS THAN $250K/yr.
To begin with, there are all those who repudiated the corrupt man and his horrendous administration since his initial campaign. Now consider all else. Obama is repaying political favors with bribes funded by our taxes that he is increasing while providing us with less performance from government, only more self serving bureaucracy. Finally, it would take everyone to be in on his bribes (ex: Stimulus, Cash for Clunker boondoggles). Yet all our taxes are diverted to line the pockets of Soros, unions, and worse. Those who refrain or are not included become that much more angered by Obama’s autocratic disdain for Constitutional Governance.
To ask WHY Obama would destroy America, one need go no further than Clinton’s quip. “Because I could.”
Impeach Obama with ONE VOICE, his own record.
maverick muse on August 27, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I remember when Bush’s approval rating fell to 50% in his first term (before 9-11), there were jokes aplenty on late night shows about it. Anybody hearing any jokes about Obama now that his approval is at 50%? Yeah, me neither.
clearbluesky on August 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Before we go any further, which is it: he never said “he would instantly solve all of our problems” or he claimed “to be a miracle man”?
LastRick on August 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Was that the outfit that looked like some sort of clown costume, with orange ruffles or something? (I thought that picture must have been photoshopped when I first saw it. No sighted person would go out in public dressed like that).
I hope she wears that thing again. That should elevate her supermodel/fashion icon status into the stratosphere.
AZCoyote on August 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Mary Jo’s Presidential hopes were dashed
faraway on August 27, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Gee, maybe Dear Leader ought to start bumping off some of the older members of his party so he can eulogize them and bring up his numbers.
atheling on August 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Yep. That’s the one. She never ceases to amaze me. The manner in which a First Lady comports herself is important. While the media engages in absurd contortions to explain the inexplicable people notice, cringe or laugh at us.
She’s grotesque.
Cody1991 on August 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM
<blockquoteI haven’t seen the picture of her in shorts. I have to look it up now.
TXMomof3 on August 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Think Lot’s wife.>
1921 C DRUM on August 27, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Remember how fond Daily Kos was of posting popularity poll after popularity poll just a year ago? I wonder what happened……
Speedwagon82 on August 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Lefty logic: our Lion is dead, so please pass the mother of all boondoggles to honor his memory, ruin your children’s financial future and get in line for healthcare (which, presumably, Kennedy has never done a day in his life).
Oh, yeah – that makes sense.
redfoxbluestate on August 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Outside of Massachusetts and Capitol Hill, the Kennedy’s have absolutely no political clout.
The average American could give a rats ass about this funeral.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM
In honor of my former Senator, may I suggest “Too Drunk to F&*k”?
RedMindBlueState on August 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Obama has never made a memorable speech. His inaugural was so awful, Leftists speculated that Obama made it suck on purpose.
I don’t see the reasoning here. If he gets a bounce it’ll be because he’s been temporarily pushed off the front page by Ted Kennedy.
jeff_from_mpls on August 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM
His cadence, apparently.
VekTor on August 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Hmmmm.
How many Americans would be willing to suffer with a lousy healthcare reform act to propriate the memory of Ted Kennedy?
Somewhere above 0% and below 1%.
And that’s because I assume that there is always someone game for anything no matter how insane.
memomachine on August 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM
In the Economist/YouGov poll put out today the Messiah is now sitting at 48% in his approval number.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracy/inamerica/yougov/
technopeasant on August 27, 2009 at 6:30 PM
They must have seen that commercial that ABC and NBC refuse to run… the one full of LIES about ObamaCare!
/sar
jana on August 27, 2009 at 6:31 PM
The MSM seems to be in denial about the Kennedy charm… or, in Ted’s case, lack of it.
They just can’t (or won’t) accept that Camelot is gone forever.
jana on August 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM
But remember the MSM the days before? Would it surpass Gettysburg? Would it surpass JFK’s? And now, can anyone remember one line from it?
angryed on August 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM
So Kennedy is having a Muslum funeral service huh?
bluegrass on August 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM
The difference? Voters weren’t in love with Bush or Clinton. I predicted this last January. Obama ran on charm, snake oil, and race. Now that he has exposed himself as an opportunistic,corrupt business as usual politician those voters feel betrayed. To misquote, nothing more dangerous then a scorned voter…
conservativegrandma on August 27, 2009 at 7:53 PM
The newsworthy part isn’t that he has slipped to 50%, it’s that he has only slipped to 50%. That’s a bad sign for this country. Dude should be at 45% max. What the hell is wrong with people?
xblade on August 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM
He doesn’t care. He carries himself as someone who is quite confident he is not going anywhere.
shar61 on August 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Obama’s poll bounce from the “Do it for Teddy” campaign is going to bounce–just like Teddy would bounce today—like not that high?..
Polls got you a little down champ… Time for a(nother) vacation? How nice… The rest of us will gladly get back to work while you fiddle…Someone’s got to make this country run.
ted c on August 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Gallup mostly polls dems anyway. They are simply propping him up. If you want to gauge Bozo’s real popularity? Ask around the unemployment office come monday morning.
Winter is coming, people have run out of money and there are few jobs. Even CBS is putting holes in the obamunistcare balloon:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/26/taking_liberties/entry5268079.shtml
and Bozo wants a vacation from his vacation (you cant make this stuff up)
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0809/another_break_for_obama_711b9dd5-47b3-40d2-ba55-4924582858ba.html
I hear a giant flushing sound…
dogsoldier on August 27, 2009 at 9:08 PM
If he uses teddys name to push Obamacare his poll number will sink even further down. Because everybody knows Ted Kennedy was treated under the best healthcare system but the bill that he and his fellow lib dems support would rather tell the elderly to just take a pain killer and die because they are not worth caring for.
jaboba on August 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM
What I find so distressing is that half the country still thinks this goober-cheese is doing a good job.
:-O
Dave R. on August 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Had Kennedy been treated under Obama’s healthcare aberration he would have received his “end of life counseling” and then sent home to take a pill and die months ago. The hypocrisy among these socialist morons is mind boggling.
rplat on August 27, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Why would a long, rambling, “lets make this all about me” eulogy from Obama raise his stature in the polls?
Nothing about Teddy’s death is going to change what Barry is, and the people who are against Obamacare, are more than likely not Teddy fans.
anniekc on August 27, 2009 at 10:02 PM
NASCAR
-simplesackosimon
daesleeper on August 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM
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