Comments on: Oh my: New Zogby poll shows Obama’s approval at … 42% http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr. Conservative » Health Care is Taking Obama Down http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-6/#comment-2651072 Mr. Conservative » Health Care is Taking Obama Down Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:31:59 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2651072 [...]  Zogby Poll showed Obama down to an approval rating of only 42%. Pollster John Zogby: President Obama is now firmly between a [...] [...]  Zogby Poll showed Obama down to an approval rating of only 42%. Pollster John Zogby: President Obama is now firmly between a [...]

]]> By: Obama will not push for a public option « Wellsy’s World http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-6/#comment-2650909 Obama will not push for a public option « Wellsy’s World Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:19:30 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2650909 [...] In a move recognizing the sober facts of political reality, President Barack Obama, according to Politico, is shifting his strategy on health care reform, including not insisting on a public option. It will enrage his liberal base, who flew into a tizzy when HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius floated the idea of the public option as a non-essential portion of health care reform. The President and his advisors are gambling it’s a face-saving move that will endear him more to the political center, who has been abandoning him in droves, leading to a 45% Rasmussen approval rating and a 42% Zogby approval rating. [...] [...] In a move recognizing the sober facts of political reality, President Barack Obama, according to Politico, is shifting his strategy on health care reform, including not insisting on a public option. It will enrage his liberal base, who flew into a tizzy when HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius floated the idea of the public option as a non-essential portion of health care reform. The President and his advisors are gambling it’s a face-saving move that will endear him more to the political center, who has been abandoning him in droves, leading to a 45% Rasmussen approval rating and a 42% Zogby approval rating. [...]

]]> By: Dirty Democrats » President Dud… Obama’s Approval Average From Latest Polls- 43.5% http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2650512 Dirty Democrats » President Dud… Obama’s Approval Average From Latest Polls- 43.5% Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:21:50 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2650512 [...] had Obama’s approval rating at 42% in their latest poll released [...] [...] had Obama’s approval rating at 42% in their latest poll released [...]

]]> By: JellyToast http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2649610 JellyToast Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:56:28 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2649610 At some point Obama is going to have to get these poll takers on the phone and have a serious talk with them. Do they want Obama and thus America, to fail or do they want Obama and America to succeed?! At some point Obama is going to have to get these poll takers on the phone and have a serious talk with them.
Do they want Obama and thus America, to fail or do they want Obama and America to succeed?!

]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » CBS poll: Obama hits another new low on health care http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2649542 Hot Air » Blog Archive » CBS poll: Obama hits another new low on health care Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:45:37 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2649542 [...] saluting Bill Clinton as the “voice of God” on health care. I made the same argument last night: Since the Democrats won’t get any credit from the right or right-leaning independents for [...] [...] saluting Bill Clinton as the “voice of God” on health care. I made the same argument last night: Since the Democrats won’t get any credit from the right or right-leaning independents for [...]

]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rasmussen: Democrats at lowest point in generic-ballot polling in years http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648778 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rasmussen: Democrats at lowest point in generic-ballot polling in years Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:15:32 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648778 [...] anything north of 45 percent for an incumbent president would probably mean reelection.) Aside from Zogby’s outlier last night, The One’s still safely north of 42 percent, but the trends are not in his favor. [...] [...] anything north of 45 percent for an incumbent president would probably mean reelection.) Aside from Zogby’s outlier last night, The One’s still safely north of 42 percent, but the trends are not in his favor. [...]

]]> By: Rockygold http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648744 Rockygold Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:08:13 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648744 Where have all the bumper stickers gone? Where have all the bumper stickers gone?

]]> By: Liberals Spit In The Face Of 9/11 Victims And Their Families. Liberals Contempt For America On Full Display. | The Substratum http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648527 Liberals Spit In The Face Of 9/11 Victims And Their Families. Liberals Contempt For America On Full Display. | The Substratum Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:35:42 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648527 [...] Got the picture yet? If not, keep on trucking down the road your on, because I love watching those poll numbers drop. What was that you said about empathy for terrorists again? Sorry, but I have no intention of [...] [...] Got the picture yet? If not, keep on trucking down the road your on, because I love watching those poll numbers drop. What was that you said about empathy for terrorists again? Sorry, but I have no intention of [...]

]]> By: technopeasant http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648345 technopeasant Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:57:39 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648345 Decider on September 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM Thank you for confirming for me the campaign strategy Obama is going to employ in 2012 to get re-elected or perhaps in 2010 to save the Democratic Party from being eviscerated in the midterms. The only thing I didn't envision was the 'race card' would be pulled out of the deck so soon in the political proceedings. Perhaps this is a sign of how desperate Obama has become. Decider on September 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM

Thank you for confirming for me the campaign strategy Obama is going to employ in 2012 to get re-elected or perhaps in 2010 to save the Democratic Party from being eviscerated in the midterms.

The only thing I didn’t envision was the ‘race card’ would be pulled out of the deck so soon in the political proceedings. Perhaps this is a sign of how desperate Obama has become.

]]> By: Decider http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648232 Decider Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:28:45 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648232 <blockquote>Hmmm Seems to me the REAL racists are the 90%+ blacks who will vote on skin color EVERY TIME, regardless of how bad they are getting f@#$*d. How can you get more racist than that? Fishoutofwater on September 1, 2009 at 12:50 PM</blockquote> Like the 80% of Blacks who voted against Micheal Steele in Maryland and voted for his White challenger for Senate? Of course let's not let the facts bust the Fox News misinformation bubble you live in. Let's just blame the "Mainstream Media" for Steele's loss. The GOP has a huge race problem. It can try to deny it or it can try to blame it on the "Liberal Mainstream Media" or whatever the latest Conservative whine is for the moment but it certainly can not be denied. The GOP's most popular commentator at the moment, Glenn Beck, is a race baiting Charlatan who is the White equivalent of Al Sharpton. The GOP poster girl, Sarah Palin uses terms such as "Real Americans" to promote it's "Vote White" policy. The GOP teabagging resembles a KKK rally from the 1960s as does their national conventions. Racism is a cancer that is destroying the GOP.

Hmmm Seems to me the REAL racists are the 90%+ blacks who will vote on skin color EVERY TIME, regardless of how bad they are getting f@#$*d. How can you get more racist than that?

Fishoutofwater on September 1, 2009 at 12:50 PM

Like the 80% of Blacks who voted against Micheal Steele in Maryland and voted for his White challenger for Senate? Of course let’s not let the facts bust the Fox News misinformation bubble you live in. Let’s just blame the “Mainstream Media” for Steele’s loss.

The GOP has a huge race problem. It can try to deny it or it can try to blame it on the “Liberal Mainstream Media” or whatever the latest Conservative whine is for the moment but it certainly can not be denied.

The GOP’s most popular commentator at the moment, Glenn Beck, is a race baiting Charlatan who is the White equivalent of Al Sharpton. The GOP poster girl, Sarah Palin uses terms such as “Real Americans” to promote it’s “Vote White” policy. The GOP teabagging resembles a KKK rally from the 1960s as does their national conventions.

Racism is a cancer that is destroying the GOP.

]]> By: joejm65 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2648001 joejm65 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:46:14 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2648001 Liberals don’t attack them on race..... but certainly all racists are Republicans.... Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM Oh, bulls**t. I'm glad you get paid to do this by the hour, because I'd have NO respect for someone who trolls for free. Liberals don’t attack them on race…..
but certainly all racists are Republicans….
Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Oh, bulls**t. I’m glad you get paid to do this by the hour, because I’d have NO respect for someone who trolls for free.

]]> By: hillbillyjim http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647722 hillbillyjim Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:04:39 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647722 <blockquote>Surely this only applies to public school kids? He can’t get into the private schools too can he? txmomof6 on September 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM</blockquote> I guess that would be up to the particular school administration and/or teacher in a private setting. It's too bad that teaching the basics has given way to indoctrination in many of our schools. If we can't reverse this trend, the future of a free America with individual rights paramount is in dire jeopardy.

Surely this only applies to public school kids? He can’t get into the private schools too can he?

txmomof6 on September 1, 2009 at 1:57 PM

I guess that would be up to the particular school administration and/or teacher in a private setting.

It’s too bad that teaching the basics has given way to indoctrination in many of our schools. If we can’t reverse this trend, the future of a free America with individual rights paramount is in dire jeopardy.

]]> By: hillbillyjim http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647690 hillbillyjim Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:58:15 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647690 <blockquote>PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM</blockquote> I hope that Allahpundit, Ed, or Michelle, or better yet, all of the above, will pick up on this little <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama" rel="nofollow">morsel</a>. If we cede this ground to the left, all is lost.

PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM

I hope that Allahpundit, Ed, or Michelle, or better yet, all of the above, will pick up on this little morsel.

If we cede this ground to the left, all is lost.

]]> By: txmomof6 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647683 txmomof6 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:57:32 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647683 <blockquote>By the way…..How about this…Obama to address the entire nations’ Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 My kids will NOT be attending. This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations’ grade schoolers. PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM That is so creepy. Uncle Sam Barry wants YOU! hillbillyjim on September 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM</blockquote> Surely this only applies to public school kids? He can't get into the private schools too can he?

By the way…..How about this…Obama to address the entire nations’ Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009

My kids will NOT be attending.

This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations’ grade schoolers.

PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM
That is so creepy.

Uncle Sam Barry wants YOU!

hillbillyjim on September 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Surely this only applies to public school kids? He can’t get into the private schools too can he?

]]> By: hillbillyjim http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647645 hillbillyjim Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:50:57 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647645 <blockquote>Goldenavatar on September 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM</blockquote> The sad part is that most of these liberal do-gooders don't realize that the things they are advocating are detrimental to their own well-being and would be manifested ever more so in their children's lives. Goddamn <strike>America</strike>.

Goldenavatar on September 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM

The sad part is that most of these liberal do-gooders don’t realize that the things they are advocating are detrimental to their own well-being and would be manifested ever more so in their children’s lives.

Goddamn America.

]]> By: Goldenavatar http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647595 Goldenavatar Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:42:31 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647595 <em>Liberals don’t attack them on race. Republicans attack Obama on race as witnessed at the tea parties, during the 2008 Palin campaign rallies, and current in the town halls. I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans.</em> Your logic is impenetrable! How can one reason with the unreasonable? My question is this: do these commenters actually believe this nonsense? This much I think is true: even if they don't believe it, the more they repeat it the more they embrace it. And if that's the case we can never win over such fools with reason. Liberals don’t attack them on race. Republicans attack Obama on race as witnessed at the tea parties, during the 2008 Palin campaign rallies, and current in the town halls.

I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans.

Your logic is impenetrable!

How can one reason with the unreasonable?

My question is this: do these commenters actually believe this nonsense? This much I think is true: even if they don’t believe it, the more they repeat it the more they embrace it. And if that’s the case we can never win over such fools with reason.

]]> By: hillbillyjim http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647578 hillbillyjim Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:38:02 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647578 <blockquote>By the way…..How about this…Obama to address the entire nations’ Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 My kids will NOT be attending. This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations’ grade schoolers. PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM</blockquote> That is so creepy. Uncle <strike>Sam</strike> Barry<strong> wants YOU!</strong>

By the way…..How about this…Obama to address the entire nations’ Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009

My kids will NOT be attending.

This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations’ grade schoolers.

PappyD61 on September 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM

That is so creepy.

Uncle Sam Barry wants YOU!

]]> By: Goldenavatar http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647565 Goldenavatar Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:31:29 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647565 While I am pleased to see polling numbers so low for the O-Man, because it will hopefully mean he has a harder time instituting his wacky agenda, still I wonder about something. How much of the low approval numbers are from extreme-left nutcases who disapprove because B.O. isn't wacky enough. In the end they will still vote for him in 2012 even though they gripe about him now. Plus how overwhelming will voter backlash against B.O. have to be to overcome the enormous voter fraud that will likely occur? At least I expect there to be enormous voter fraud. While I am pleased to see polling numbers so low for the O-Man, because it will hopefully mean he has a harder time instituting his wacky agenda, still I wonder about something. How much of the low approval numbers are from extreme-left nutcases who disapprove because B.O. isn’t wacky enough. In the end they will still vote for him in 2012 even though they gripe about him now. Plus how overwhelming will voter backlash against B.O. have to be to overcome the enormous voter fraud that will likely occur? At least I expect there to be enormous voter fraud.

]]> By: kirkill http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647552 kirkill Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:27:31 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647552 Liberals == Absolute Immorality <em>Decider </em>loves to support arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful elite. Because he wants to be a kept man/woman/troll. Liberals == Absolute Immorality

Decider loves to support arbitrary abuse and control by the powerful elite. Because he wants to be a kept man/woman/troll.

]]> By: MCGIRV http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647543 MCGIRV Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:25:01 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647543 Well it's good to see that some people seem to be sobering up. Well it’s good to see that some people seem to be sobering up.

]]> By: PappyD61 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647532 PappyD61 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:19:46 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647532 <strong>By the way.....How about this...Obama to address the entire nations' Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8.</strong> http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009 My kids will NOT be attending. This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations' grade schoolers. By the way…..How about this…Obama to address the entire nations’ Elementary schools LIVE on 9/8.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama’s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009

My kids will NOT be attending.

This should help his poll numbers!!! Forcing himself on the nations’ grade schoolers.

]]> By: atheling http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647530 atheling Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:19:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647530 blockquote>I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans. Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM Who cares what you think? Not all Democrats are a**wipes, but all a**wipes are Democrats. blockquote>I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans.

Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Who cares what you think?

Not all Democrats are a**wipes, but all a**wipes are Democrats.

]]> By: atheling http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647526 atheling Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:18:38 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647526 <blockquote>I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans. Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM</blockquote> Who cares what you think? Not all Democrats are asswipes, but all asswipes are Democrats.

I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans.

Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Who cares what you think?

Not all Democrats are asswipes, but all asswipes are Democrats.

]]> By: PappyD61 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647520 PappyD61 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:17:29 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647520 <strong>We're on to you....you Marxist!!!</strong> Now, what are we going to do with him? Marxist Czars....sorry "Advisors" all around the Administration. Dems in Congress willing to let Obama do all the heavy lifting for the New World Order (see Kissinger interview on CNBC it's out at Youtube). What could go wrong? We’re on to you….you Marxist!!!

Now, what are we going to do with him?

Marxist Czars….sorry “Advisors” all around the Administration.

Dems in Congress willing to let Obama do all the heavy lifting for the New World Order (see Kissinger interview on CNBC it’s out at Youtube).

What could go wrong?

]]> By: hillbillyjim http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/oh-my-new-zogby-poll-shows-obamas-approval-at-42/comment-page-5/#comment-2647493 hillbillyjim Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:09:02 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=64143#comment-2647493 <blockquote>I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans. Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM </blockquote> Paging Dr. Gates.

I am not saying all Republicans are racists but certainly all racists are Republicans.

Decider on September 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Paging Dr. Gates.

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