Rasmussen Obama index at -13
posted at 12:15 pm on October 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Well, the decision to go to war with Fox News has really paid dividends for this White House. According to the latest Rasmussen presidential tracking poll, Barack Obama now has a passion index of -13, with only 27% of respondents strongly approving of his performance and 40% strongly disapproving. Overall, Obama has a -6 approval deficit:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. That’s just a point above the lowest level ever recorded for this President. It’s also the sixth straight day in negative double digits, matching the longest such streak …
Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.
This polling follows that of other independent pollsters such as Pew and Harris showing eroding support for both Obama and his agenda. Skewed polling, such as that of the WaPo/ABC and NYT/CBS surveys, hint at similar erosion even while wildly oversampling Democrats. Rasmussen uses likely voters, a much more predictive method, which should have Democrats very, very worried about pursuing their radical agenda.
Time for a prime-time press conference! Or another speech to the joint session of Congress, perhaps. If Obama really wanted to reverse this trend, he might want to think about giving Fox’s Chris Wallace an exclusive interview. However, he can’t do that while his press secretary continues to sound like the Baghdad Bob of media relations.
In fact, given Robert Gibbs’ public declarations, the only way the White House could now reverse itself would be to push Gibbs overboard. How long will it take before Gibbs decides to spend more time with his family?
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Tanking and taking the msm with him.
marklmail on October 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Not soon enough, for the whole bunch of whining babies in the Wh
bbz123 on October 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
The Obama Administrations worst enemy is not FoxNews, its themselves.
portlandon on October 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I miss Baghdad Bob.
nolapol on October 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I blame Fox. Thanks Glen, you rule!
Laura in Maryland on October 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Barry doesn’t care, he’s got 12 more months to inflict as much damage as possible to capitalism and the USA, just like he was taught at Columbia…
phreshone on October 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM
It’s too bad this is happening to gibbs. Everyone needs a job, but Gibbsy getting thrown under the bus like this is just terrible. I’m not just painting with a wide brush here and speculating on the thousands of employees of the white house, I’m just offering my opinion on what happens at 0900 every morning at the white house.
ted c on October 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM
About a year too late but it gives me hope for the next couple elections.
I often quip that the 2008 election is the election where democracy failed the republic but more and more I see it as an absolute failure of our media. They’re supposed to be watchdogs, not lapdogs. Such disinformation as presented by the media to help Obama must’ve made even the most successful KGB agent blush with envy.
Yakko77 on October 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Bingo!
bopbottle on October 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
mmm mmm mmm
FreedomSlave on October 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Are they incompetent or so crafty we can’t figure out their game?
PattyJ on October 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
:-) “Today’s casualties are as follows: 10 administration officials wounded, one press secretary … martyred.”
RD on October 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
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Aw hell! That’s a mandate according to the Democrats
LincolntheHun on October 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
That chump has a family?
venividivici on October 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
White House: 47 approval points saved or created!
Chuck Schick on October 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Just hope he’s not tanking too soon. We need these numbers this time next year and in 2012.
davek70 on October 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Maybe the voters saw his partisan speech he gave recently and realized that Obama is only trying to be president to the left in American rather than to America as a whole.
When is Obama going to stop campaigning and start acting like our President?
-13 is what he deserves for all his partisanship.
texasconserv on October 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
He will give Chris an interview, and after the interview the spin will be…it was much more civil after taking Fox to the woodshed…
right2bright on October 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Political Epitaph Time:
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was seen today getting turned away at the White House gate. The Secret Service could be overheard saying, “I’m sorry, sir, your pass has been revoked.” Mr. Gibbs was then seen with his head hung low, dragging his briefcase back to the car.
It is unclear what line of work Mr. Gibbs will enter now that he is, again, unemployed. However, as he entered his car he took a call and said, “Why, yes Mr. Immelt…!!”
ted c on October 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Useful idiots are so much more effective than ham-handed diktats from the top.
RD on October 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM
I think Gibbs is as irritating as the next guy, but explain to me how getting rid of him helps Obama. I just don’t see Obama sitting around, thinking, man, if I dump Gibbs, people will begin to like me again.
LastRick on October 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM
What is with the odd Politico article in the headlines saying the WH is doing great with going to war with FOX and marginalizing conservatives? Are they playing the role of Baghdad Bob?
INC on October 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Proof that 27% of the populace is insane.
VegasRick on October 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
LOL. More than 27% would classify The Precedent as an outright traitor, deserving of a trial and subsequent punishment. And that 27% that strongly approves of the Traitor-in-Chief consists of nothing but America-haters who have no business being allowed to stay in our country – we allow them to stay here at our own peril, as we are all seeing. They are the leeches of humanity who serve no purpose to whatever society they are lucky enough to be in and which is unlucky enough to be infected with them. These people (including The Precedent) don’t deserve the benefits of civilized society, since they do nothing but work to destroy everything around them.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM
I’ll just go ahead and link to my last comment on this issue…
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=56754#comment-680086
Eeenteresting.
Abby Adams on October 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Ed Koch supposedly said, “The voters have spoken and now they must be punished.”
Let’s hope more and more Americans realize it’s the U.S.A. that’s being punished as a result of last November’s election.
Drained Brain on October 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Wasn’t Olbermann orgasmic in his reporting of 47% approval for Bush?
jimmy2shoes on October 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM
At least Odumbass got the hint and stopped giving pressers every freakin day.
txag92 on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Disapproving of Obama’s fantastic job is simply more proof that we are the most racist country IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH and need immediate re-education for the bitter people who resist the President.
/sarc
Wineaholic on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
This can’t be right!
MSNBC’s political analyst said that the administration’s floor was 50% not two weeks ago.
Can’t we get an Affirmative Action program for polls and elections?
IlikedAUH2O on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Putz.
beatcanvas on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Complaining that “it’s a rasmussen poll” is the last refuge of losers. (paraphrasing bleeds blue from yesterday)
lorien1973 on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
December.
`I predict Bill Burton to be Obama’s next Press Secretary. I hate Burton more than Gibbs. They both make my skin crawl.
portlandon on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Who would have thought that incompetence and corruption would be so unpopular?
David Assrod is vexed.
NoDonkey on October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
There are surely racists in the disapproval numbers.
IlikedAUH2O on October 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I have ZERO sympathy for that putz Gibbs, or anyone else who hitches their wagon to the Obama train. I hope they all lose their cushy six figure jobs and have to go out into the private sector and find real work.
UltimateBob on October 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM
I think he will give BOR one before Chris. Remember, Chris said they were cry babies. No way is he talking with Chris.
deidre on October 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM
What’s the over-under on whether this jug-eared piker actually finishes his term.
CurtZHP on October 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Even -13 is too good. I say we wait until ten more points get shaved off and his approval rating brings back memories of Wolf Blitzer’s performance on Jeopardy.
Ryan Gandy on October 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=19.
If I’m looking at this right, it looks like Bush had approval ratings only 3% higher than his disapproval ratings at the time of the 2004 election, and won by approximately the same percentage. Obama’ ratings are only down by 6% about a year into his first term. If the economy starts to turn around, Obama’s approval ratings will go up.
Jimbo3 on October 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM
There are surely racists in the
disapproval numbers.FTFY.
VegasRick on October 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Without our biased, lying media this would easily be a negative 26?
IlikedAUH2O on October 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Me too. If I have to see that lying, smirking cartoon of a human being on my TV every day, I’m going to have to toss it out and not buy another TV until 2012.
UltimateBob on October 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Their vote last November was a vote to specifically punish the US. White guilt drove most of the vote for The Precedent, which most whites viewed as the ultimate act of penance, designed to sacrifice the US as a way of alleviating them of their illusory guilt.
What they have found, though, is that illusory guilt is not amenable to satisfaction by penance of any sort. That’s the beauty of illusory guilt. But the scarifice of the US continues on as planned, because that was what was chosen on Nov 4th.
For centuries into the future, if not millenia, this will live as a cautionary tale to all:
Affirmative action kills.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Rasmussen is racist.
D2Boston on October 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
I said it would nearly impossible to go below 28%…was I wrong.
Here is how I figured…14% of the vote for him was the black vote…they will follow him no matter what. Then you have 10% crazy people, the people who think we didn’t land on the moon, or that Elvis is till alive, they are just nuts. Then you have 4 or 5% of the white vote that will never vote against a black because of black guilt, throw in a bunch of professors, and you have a solid 28% (I thought) who would never turn their back on him.
I was wrong…shockingly wrong…
right2bright on October 21, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Remember, he has 15%+ BUILT IN! Jeez, he’s sinking fast.
marklmail on October 21, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Gibbs may go, but it won’t help. They can’t get enough lipstick to disguise this pig.
OT..I hate Obama’s jive act. Exactly when was President Ebonics a Southern black?
flyfisher on October 21, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Tuesday, Oneterma matched his all-time low in the Gallup daily tracking poll, too:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx
ChrisB on October 21, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Here’s the email I got from Jim VandeHei at Politco:
Thanks for the email. I can usually anticipate reader reaction but I have been surprised you, and few others, viewed this one as tilted. I thought it would be the WH that wouldn’t like it because it calls out a baldly political campaign to discredit folks.
The liberal media is as clueless as Obama.
kevinkristy on October 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Be ready for even more shocking results.
VegasRick on October 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Think Scott McClellan vs. Tony Snow.
Pablo on October 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM
It’s a scary world when you consider that you probably know some of those 27% who are “strongly approving” of the take over and destruction of America.
DanaSmiles on October 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM
His dialect changes depending on his audience.
Chameleon-empathy politics.
portlandon on October 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM
You can’t fool all the people all of the time!
rjoco1 on October 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM
47% of Americans are morons.
What is there about the filthy lying coward’s performance to approve of? Seriously, one of you morons help me out here and explain what this rat bastard traitor did that wasn’t an epic failure or complete waste of time.
highhopes on October 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
This was a delightful way to start my day. Thank you!
John the Libertarian on October 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I got my popcorn stocked up…but how much lower, can’t be below 14%…
right2bright on October 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
That’s a fair guess. Burton’s a better liar than Gibbs. He’s just shameless, where Gibbs gets annoyed and petulant.
Pablo on October 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I hear Scott McClellan is ‘between jobs’. Sadly, Gibbs makes that douchebag look almost competent.
Monica on October 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Does this mean anything when mainstream Repubs are even less popular?
The Dean on October 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
WRONG! I saw Lanny Davis on FNC last night and he found one poll that had Obama at 56%… he then warned conservatives not to poo-poo a poll just because you don’t like the results… and then go and find a poll that you like.
Yeah, Lanny would NEVER do that.
mankai on October 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Never attribute to deceit and subtle craftiness what can be perfectly explained by sheer, unmitigated incompetence and thuggish, boorish, overbearing, mean, and corrupt behavior.
Subsunk
Subsunk on October 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
It has been 10 months. That isn’t even close to “about a year” when it comes to polling. Conventional wisdom says that you are correct. If the economy improves the rat bastard traitor will see better approval numbers. I don’t happen to believe that conventional wisdom holds in this situation. The filthy lying coward has so aliented segments of the population and segments of business that it’s not just about the money.
highhopes on October 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Blacks are only 12% of the population. So, you’re back in line.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Throw Gibbs overboard? I thought this was Rahm’s brain-child.
rhombus on October 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM
The good kind of wrong.
farright on October 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Tick, tock, tick, tock.
humdinger on October 21, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Indeed. Lenin is laughing from the grave.
Yakko77 on October 21, 2009 at 12:46 PM
But the CNN/NY Times/MSNBC poll with the sample of 1% Republicans and 75% ACORN employees and Keith Olbmermann viewers, says that Obama is extra-specially-terrific and that he should be named Great Leader for life.
NoDonkey on October 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM
not bad
runner on October 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM
tee hee-love it!
you reap what you sow dear leader
cmsinaz on October 21, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Hey obama,keep your arrogance going,I love it,it will be your sweet,sweet,sweet!!! downfall:)
ohiobabe on October 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM
+1
cmsinaz on October 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM
That’s not saying much is it?
LOL!!!
Yakko77 on October 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Obama and Company live in a bubble of their own making. They have no concept of what’s occurring outside that bubble.
GarandFan on October 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Noone has mentioned that if GIbbs leaves (less than a year into his admin.) then it makes Obama look even worse than he does now. The message that it continues to build on is that Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing (surprise, I know) and that he’s all show and no go. I’m beginning to believe that Obama is simply there to appear before the cameras and that Rahm, Axelrod and Gibbs (Jarrett too) are really running the show. Nothing else seems to explain the scatterbrain tactics coming from the WH. Either that or Obama couldn’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag and the poor performance at lower levels is a direct result of his incompetency at the top.
volnation on October 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM
afraid you are right…UGH!
cmsinaz on October 21, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I don’t believe He cares what his approval number is. With complete control of Congress and the executive branch, He will force upon us a socialist/marxist system and then turn his attention to making it impossible to remove him from power. Chavez, KJI, Achiy, and the others aren’t popular, but the citizens don’t seem able to remove them.
uncalheels on October 21, 2009 at 12:52 PM
If he signs a public option he’ll go into Bush territory on ‘dem ratings.
I hope he has a diesel powered machete – he’ll need it to cut himself out of the wilderness.
HondaV65 on October 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM
I can’t stand Burton. He is a smug and creepy.
conservative pilgrim on October 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Is that even possible?
Jettisoning this worthless, lying clown would be Obama’s greatest accomplishment in life to date, IMOP.
NoDonkey on October 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM
For at least two years I’ve been saying that 27% of the nation’s voters is the entire far-left wing of the Democrat Party….and they “Strongly Approve”, but they actually DON’T. They’re mad as Hell because the fraud in the White House doesn’t have the nads to invoke their entire political ideology for fear of losing what ground he has with the centrist Democrats – the Clinton crowd. Without the Centrists…and now without the Independents…what’s a Socialist to do??
Answer: Nothing, and hope the diversionary war with FOX, along with a few other tactics to garner positive headlines, will make the negatives go away.
Watch for an even greater PUSH for the health scare package now, more than ever….before those numbers pick up speed on their downward plunge.
GoldenEagle4444 on October 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Well … we’ll all just have to take it. Remember … secession or armed revolution against any government flying “Old Glory” is considered “unpatriotic” and “fringe” behavior.
Just ask Allah.
HondaV65 on October 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM
A new Gallup poll shows that 61% say Obama was not deserving of the Nobel, with 35% saying he did deserve it.
ICBM on October 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM
THE ONLY POLL OR VOTE THAT COUNTS…..
Is the votes of the the global cabal that Obama is running for President of.
He and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown all seem to showing their global masters that THEY can deliver their economies up…..
Who campaigned as “CITIZEN OF THE WORLD” in Berlin last year?
Who is working overtime to dismantle capitalism and chain the free people of the U.S. (via Healthcare)?
Who constantly talks about global cooperation and “crisis”?
Who is the solution to all of the worlds problems?
None other than………….
Barack Hussein Obama……MMMMMM, MMMMMM, MMMMMMM.
Explain it any other way.
PappyD61 on October 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM
I would agree with you but the difference b/w conventional wisdom and now is that Obama bet the farm (and about $1TT) on the stimulus pkg. right out of the gate. Put simply, he’s spent too much money for a mere garden variety turnaround. IOW’s, he’d better see UE at around 5% come 1/2Q 2012 or he’s sunk given the “cost” of said “recovery”. I haven’t seen anything that predicts that UE will be anywhere near there by 2011. Either Obama will somehow find a way to cruise to victory in 2012 or he’ll get crushed b/c I don’t think that his policies are designed for much middle ground.
volnation on October 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM
The clinical term is a “psychotic break”.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Dumping Gibbs will not change a thing.
Irritating and clearly a liar, the problem is not Gibbs but what he says. The sensation of dishonesty and stupidity will survive the messenger until and unless the message changes, and that isn’t happening. Those telling Barry what to do don’t care about Gibbs or Barry, only that they do what they are told and the agenda proceed.
Gibbs will go to work for Soros, I think, not Immelt, as consolation for whoring himself.
Disgusted.
Harry Schell on October 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Cue Baghdad Bob Gibbs…. But he’s the Messiah? His presidential tracking poll passion index of -13 cannot be true! This must be Fox News, angry Town Hall, Vast Far Right racist spin…
IntheNet on October 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM
manchurian president?
cmsinaz on October 21, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Highhopes, you make Beck look like a moderate…and I love it. You’re my new favorite poster.
Kudos
orlandocajun on October 21, 2009 at 1:10 PM
When is Harry/Nancy going to make that drive to 1600 Penn. Ave. to deliver the bad news to OBama?
Dire Straits on October 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM
His approval rating will increasingly correspond to the continued lack of job growth.
diogenes on October 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Bill Burton?!! He can’t tie his shoes without help. Megan Kelly of FOX News b!tch slapped him regularly when he came on her show.
Dire Straits on October 21, 2009 at 1:16 PM
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time but apparently you can fool 27% of them all the time.
jukin on October 21, 2009 at 1:18 PM
They’re not being fooled (though they certainly are fools). This 27% are enthusiastically cheering the demise of the US.
progressoverpeace on October 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM
I hope he doesn’t. Considering all the damage he’s already done, I shudder to think what he could do if he actually started to lead
hachiban on October 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I guess I’m a pessimist, but the number that stands out to me is that 47%. After all this shit he’s pulled 47% of the people still somewhat approve of him?! In a sane world that number shouldn’t be over the 30% that have been abducted by UFOs.
cjk on October 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I hate that it is true but 27% is a good number. There are a lot more Anita Dunns and Vann Joneses running around.
Dire Straits on October 21, 2009 at 1:25 PM
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