Pew Research Poll - Obama’s support eroding »
Posted By pc25 7 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsA second major polling firm sees an erosion of support for Barack Obama after less than two months in office. Pew Research reports that Obama’s approval ratings have dropped below 60% and his negatives have climbed significantly after his first 50 days in office. Their results parallel those from Rasmussen:
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pc257 months, 4 weeks ago
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What has caused the erosion? Pew says that Obama has increasingly become seen as an ideologue tied to the left wing of the Democratic Party. By a gap of 44%-30%, voters believe Obama to have moved away from moderates, a reveral of his standing six weeks ago. Why? McClatchy’s analysis concludes that Obama’s economic agenda has begun to worry voters, who see a lot of government growth instead of economic stimulus.-
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UnusualSuspect7 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Congressional Republicans’ approval rating has also dropped, from 34/51 to 28/51 — with the bulk of it coming from a 12-point decline among Republican voters."
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Are you part of them Republican voters, there, pc?
Will they slip to Bush's all time lows? Republicans slipping further and further behind...
Not too long before they become that regional party everyone knows they're becoming...oh well, it was...uh...well, not fun while it lasted...it just lasted...too long...
But the bright side? Obama can look forward to another 4 years in 2012...LOL!
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pc257 months, 4 weeks ago
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/64060.html
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Pew poll: Obama's public support is eroding
WASHINGTON — A new poll by the independent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found that President Barack Obama's popular support is eroding, with his approval rating dropping below 60 percent.
"President Barack Obama's approval rating has slipped, as a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party's liberals than to its moderates, and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals," the Pew Center concluded. -
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pc257 months, 4 weeks ago
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The New York Daily News, not exactly a pillar of conservative thought, finds itself wondering aloud about whether Barack Obama and his team have the competence to lead the nation. The whispers have grown into a chorus:
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/15/200...
More than a bad day: Worries grow that Barack Obama & Co. have a competence problem
Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, "Do you think they know what they're doing?"
The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As we talked, I quickly realized his asking suggested his own considerable doubts. -
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BB647 months, 4 weeks ago
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Obama's numbers continue to fall for one simple reason. He didn't win because he was such a great candidate or that his message was so fabulous. The GOP ran such a bad one. He really doesn't have the mandate he thinks. I predict the following:
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1) The Porkulous package will hang around his neck like the famous words, "No new taxes" hung GHW Bush.
2) The House and Senate will once again become Red and even states like Wisconsin are now in play. Bye, bye Russ Fool's Gold. I mean Finegold.
3) Obama will be a one term president and will be considered one of the worst presidents ever. -
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pc257 months, 4 weeks ago
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from todays NY TIMES
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Bracing for a Backlash Over Wall Street Bailouts
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/us/politics/16as...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President Obama’s agenda.
The administration’s sharp rebuke of the American International Group on Sunday for handing out $165 million in executive bonuses — Lawrence H. Summers, director of the president’s National Economic Council, described it as “outrageous” on “This Week” on ABC — marks the latest effort by the White House to distance itself from abuses that could feed potentially disruptive public anger.
“We’ve got enormous problems that need to be addressed,” David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, said in an interview. “-
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nostalgia7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Wait until this starts getting more press:
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Will Allowing Banks to Fail Reduce Foreclosure Homes?
A bank rescue program unveiled by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner includes a plan to generate about $1 trillion in new consumer lending and to eliminate up to $1 trillion of banks’ bad assets.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/03/16/will-all...
$2 trillion more!
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SonOfTheMask7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Nixon's approval rating for period of 3/12-3/17/69 was 66%. It had climbed from an initial 59% at his inauguration.
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Carter's approval rating for period of 3/18-3/21/77 was 75%.
Reagan's approval rating for period of 3/13-3/16/81 was 60%. A month later it was 67%.
George H.W. Bush was 56%, Clinton was 53%, and George W. Bush was 57% at comparable periods of their first terms.
So, with Obama at around 60%, he is right at the average of the previous 6 presidents.
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NoWayMan7 months, 4 weeks ago
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that 59 is the lowest of the four polls done this week.
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CNN has him at 64% approval.
Ipsos/McClatchy has him at 65% approval
Gallup has him at 61% approval
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go to the Pew site and you'll see that the subtitle of this story is:
GOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS' RATINGS HIT NEW LOW - 28%
so, the Republicans in congress are posting Bush numbers. sad. even Republicans don't like what their party is doing, giving congressional Republicans only a 43% approval rating (down 12 points from Feb.).
the poll also shows that America still clearly favors Obama's overall vision:
- by a 17 point margin people think its a good idea for govt to exert more control over the economy right now. wonder what that number would be if the GOP was in charge. probably 17 points the other way.
- Obama's plans to draw down troops from Iraq and send more troops to afghanistan also has America's approval, with more Republicans than democrats approving of the troop increase in afghanistan.
- Americans strongly favor lowering taxes on the middle and lower classes (82-14) as well as getting rid of the Bush tax cuts for the rich (61-34).
- Americans strongly favor Obama's Stim Bill by a wide spread, 21 points.
- Americans strongly favor Obama's infrastructure rebuiliding plan by a huge margin, 77-19
so, Americans are still behind their president as he continues to post numbers Bush could only dream of.-
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pc257 months, 4 weeks ago
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spin on spin on
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837...
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.
Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date.
The American people as a whole tends to give new administrations some time to find their footing, which is usually referred to as the “honeymoon” period. The polling shows that Obama has rapidly depleted that store of goodwill, and that voters have begun taking a hard look at the massive amounts of spending and government expansion, as well as the fumbling response to the financial crisis. Rasmussen notes that taxes have become a big concern, with most voters no longer buying the line that Obama can fund his programs merely by taxing the top 5% of earners. Over eighty percent — a hefty bipartisan majority — worry that the deficit spending Obama has proposed will make the situation worse, not better.
The top-line tracking poll measures whether people like Obama. In general, they still do — but the leading indicators show that they’re beginning to re-evalute his policies to the detriment of Obama and the Democrats helping him ram them through Congress.
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Aidenag7 months, 4 weeks ago
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I love it when people try and skew facts. Like others in this thread have stated, he is running about as expected for any president 2 months after coming into office. Last, let us not forget that he is polling 200% above what Bush was when he left the white house...
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icono17 months, 4 weeks ago
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I like the part were 0Bama tells us that it will get worse before it gets better,i.e., its gonna hurt(again, another brilliant comment about the obvious), then he and his buds hit us with a trillion dollar + debt that, to my knowledge, has caused more harm than good by stimulating more job lay-offs because of restricted credit lines and the obvious tanking of the Market to which all kinds of retirement funds are attached to.
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Now I hear that Team Tingle is going to 'cook the books' for another trillion or two of tax payer money to bring us the sequel to Porkulus 1. If Porkulus 1 was so painful yet healthy for the average American, I can only imagine the 'healing through pain and loss' that Porkulus 2 will provide.
Now with all of this cleansing of the soul through instant poverty that is going on I'm fairly confident that all of those dropping poll numbers are really a simple misunderstanding and 'don't mean nothing at all'.-
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nostalgia7 months, 4 weeks ago
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A bank rescue program unveiled by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner includes a plan to generate about $1 trillion in new consumer lending and to eliminate up to $1 trillion of banks’ bad assets.
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Notice the change in language concerning the "bad" assets when Obama administration officials talk about the plan
They aren't illiquid assets" or t"oxic assets" any longer
Now the new phrase is "legacy assets"
Bloomberg.com:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he will soon announce details of his plan to help banks clean up the non-performing assets that are clogging the financial system.
“We’re going to move quickly to lay out a new financing program to deal with these legacy assets,” Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg television two days ago during a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers in Horsham, England.
Guess they think it will be better received by voters than to tell them they are going to spend $1 trillion buying toxic assets
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cleare7 months, 4 weeks ago
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the only "poll" that matters is the "poll" that got him elected.
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the only important upcoming "poll" will be when we re-elect him in 2012.
furthermore, you cons had no problem governing when elected with only a sliver of a majority and now you're quibbling over the natural ups and downs of a few percentage points in voter sentiments. -
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FairNBalanced7 months, 4 weeks ago
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It was Clinton era Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros who urged Fannie Mae to spend 42 percent of its money buying mortgages for lower income people and who suggested that they no longer require down payments. And it was his successor, Andrew Cuomo, who upped the ante to 50 percent of the Fannie Mae portfolio.
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After Democrats inveigled people to buy homes they could not afford, how can they justify passing a plan that excludes them from assistance?
It appears that Obama is at sea when it comes to financial policy, economic recovery planning and credit rescue efforts.
We're stuck not only with a socialist but seemingly an incompetent one.-
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nostalgia7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Look what Dodd stuck in the stimulus bill that Obama signed
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Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In
While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.
Also, Sen. Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, according to opensecrets.org.
Dodd’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
One of AIG Financial Products’ largest offices is based in Connecticut.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industrie...
Dodd was protecting the AIG bonuses and Obama made it law!!!!
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TimALoftis7 months, 4 weeks ago
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When looking at polling data its important not to focus in on just one single poll. I like looking at all of them. The 'Poll Of Polls' so to speak. As of this morning, Obama's average is currently at 61.0% according to realclear.com politics. This is actually up from the 59.8% number recorded earlier in the month.
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Sonofmask is correct, Obama numbers are pretty much inline with all of the modern day previous Presidents at this point in their administrations. -
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