Obama Continues His Decline

posted at 10:30 am on November 21, 2009 by
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It is over a year since the people of the United States made the decision to turn the keys to the country over to an individual who had never driven anything but whose socialist ambitions were clear. At the time when that reckless decision was made, Rush Limbaugh went public with his hope that Obama would fail in these efforts. Limbaugh took the words right out of my mouth and, I’m sure, the mouths of countless other Americans — and was promptly excoriated by the left for his lack of patriotism. (I assume Limbaugh’s critics included the people who demonstrated at the funerals of service members killed in battle.)

Judging by the president’s latest job approval numbers, it is reasonable to say that a fair percentage of those who voted for him “have seen the light.” The three largest polls — Gallup, Rasmussen, and Qunnipiac — all show Obama’s approval ratings below 50 percent. This is a first since he took office. Less than half the electorate approves of the job he’s doing.

What is truly amazing, though, is the disparity between the polling data from these organizations and that from, say, from ABC News/Washington Post (which has him well into positive territory, at 56 percent) or CNN/Opinion Research (which has him at 55 percent). Makes you wonder.

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It is over a year since the people of the United States made the decision to turn the keys to the country over to an individual who had never driven anything but whose socialist ambitions were clear.

His intentions seem to be to drive his brand new Mustang convertible right off the Grand Canyon.

I wonder how low will his ratings go. In other words, how many 0bamunists are there that will support him no matter what.

Tuari on November 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM

ABC News/Washington Post (which has him well into positive territory, at 56 percent) or CNN/Opinion Research (which has him at 55 percent). Makes you wonder.

When it’s a medium who is presenting the most positive light possible to a sitting presidential performance, one should expect that the polls given by that same medium will get accommodations for their efforts.

What is the MSNBC poll favorables for the presidential perfomance? Pretty high I’d imagine or at least more positive than say: Fox, hmmm?

Preface any poll by asking yourself first, what side of the bread is the buttered applied? Secondly, how much butter?

In most instances, the Rasmussen poll usually comes without butter, therefore, it is the most reliable one out there and believable too.

Americannodash on November 21, 2009 at 12:21 PM

He’s going to drive the car over a cliff and then blame the driver who had the car before him for having the radio tuned to the wrong station.

PackerBronco on November 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Enjoy your approval figures in the upper-forties while they last, Barry.

‘Cos they’re only gonna go in one direction from here.

Track-A-'Crat on November 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM

What is truly amazing, though, is the disparity between the polling data from these organizations and that from, say, from ABC News/Washington Post (which has him well into positive territory, at 56 percent) or CNN/Opinion Research (which has him at 55 percent). Makes you wonder.

They are skewing the data to keep the RCP average above 50%.

farright on November 21, 2009 at 9:40 PM