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Obama's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Ever, According to Gallup

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Conservative said:
You make my point, your Rep is doing ok and that is the opinion of most which makes national polls on Congress a waste of time.
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And you make my point which is that your point is meaningless. Congressmen/women don't work by themselves, they work as a unit; and collectively, they did what no other Congress before the has ever done ... achieved a job approval rating of just 10%. That's has nothing to do with each member of Congress individually, as you try to divert to, but as a whole. It appears America blames Congress for downgrade since they're JOB approval rating sank to 10%, Obama's fell to just 30%; and it's already up from that.
 
Sheik Yerbuti said:
And you make my point which is that your point is meaningless. Congressmen/women don't work by themselves, they work as a unit; and collectively, they did what no other Congress before the has ever done ... achieved a job approval rating of just 10%. That's has nothing to do with each member of Congress individually, as you try to divert to, but as a whole. It appears America blames Congress for downgrade since they're JOB approval rating sank to 10%, Obama's fell to just 30%; and it's already up from that.
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The only poll that matters regarding Congress are the election polls and right now the Democrats still control the Senate and you can complain in 2012 when the GOP takes both houses and the WH. If Americans blame Congress for the downgrade why does Obama have a 39% approval rating?
 
GPS_Flex said:
Obama's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Ever, According to Gallup



Considering Obama is the first president to preside over a downgrade in the US credit rating and doesn’t have the stones to admit he is partially responsible, choosing instead to blame Bush, the tea party, congress and anyone but himself, this doesn’t surprise me.
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I disapprove of Obama as well, he has been far too conservative, especially in foreign policy. Others that feel similarly account for much of that disapproval. Is there a candidate more liberal in the GOP line up? If not, we will have no choice but to once again vote for the least conservative candidate, Obama.

It is why you see support of any of the GOP less than support for Obama.

This was noted in the source you cited:

"A poll Gallup released Friday on congressional approval showed that Democrats hold an edge over Republicans in the 2012 elections; 51 percent of registered voters favored Democrats, while 44 percent favored GOP lawmakers "if the elections for Congress were being held today." sun
 
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GPS_Flex said:
This is a statistic that might work great for liberal talking points but won’t serve them well in the upcoming Presidential election because many republicans and tea-partiers are very unhappy with congressional republicans but they are certain to vote but it won’t be for Obama no matter who the candidates are. It might result in more republicans being thrown out of congress but those dissatisfied voters aren’t going to benefit Obama.


In other words, it is a false sense of security to claim that republican approval ratings are lower than Obama’s or the democrats.
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And Clintons were lower at this point of his presidency, and he won re-election. The republican candidates are too weak to win. Most of them are too extreme to win votes outside their teabagging base, and the other one (Romney) has too much baggage.
 
The Barbarian said:
Personally, I love seeing people like adam again underrate the tea party movement.

I can remember in the 2010 elections, liberal media, democrats, and liberals saying the tea party was nothing to be concerned about, not to be taken seriously, and would have no effect on the upcoming election. What was the result of the 2010 elections again?

Here's what I find even more interesting, less then a year ago, while stating that the tea party was nothing to be concerned about, now a year later, so very same liberals are blaming the very same tea party, that a year ago was inconsequential, for the deficit, for the lowering of our credit rating, hell if it rained yesterday, it was the tea party's fault. Even Obama and other top rated democrats, are standing in line to blame the tea party for everything. I find it almost laughable that a party that was so unimportant just a year ago, can suddenly be in the “cross hairs” of the liberal talking heads???

So just keep under estimating the tea party, this movement continues to swell, and it will effect the 2012 elections just as much, if not more then they did in 2010.
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In 2010, the teabaggers were popular. Now that they've been given a chance in congress, they are the least popular faction in american politics. Their approval ratings are not only behind Obamas', they are lower than the republican party's ratings
 
Ockham said:
I doubt it... they'll go vote simply for the lesser of two evils: Romney.
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Romney is no different... He just comes from a different party, and his own party thinks he is a RINO... lol
 
AdamT said:
I don't think that's necessarily true. If the candidate is Romney, for example, I think a lot of tea party people would stay home. I also think a lot of regular republicans would stay home.
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I agree. If Romney won the primaries then whats the point in any conservative, republican or anyone else voting for him, it would be no different than voting for Obama.
 
Conservative said:
Obama economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have our credit downgraded on his watch!
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bush* economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have caused our credit downgrade
 
I threw together a list of reasons why I think his poll numbers are dropping to such lows. Feel free to add to the list if you think I missed something (I know I missed a lot).

Unemployment
Deficit
Debt
Credit rating downgrade
Increased government regulations
Leads from behind
Starts new wars
Won’t end or win old wars
Violates the War Powers Act and says he didn’t (like we are all so stupid we can’t see it)
Hugo Chaves is his homeboy
Doesn’t have a plan for anything
Refuses to accept responsibility for anything
Still blames Bush
Blames tea party for debt and credit downgrade
Only plan he has left is to attack and blame others
No respect for the Constitution
Won’t enforce the law
No immigration reform
No trade agreements
No gay rights reform (the courts did it, not Obama)
Health care bill will be overturned by SCOTUS
No executive experience
Appoints wing-nuts to his administration and has to fire them because they’re wing-nuts
Media has never been more kind to a President but he doesn’t know how to use the media
Probably couldn’t balance his own personal checkbook
Puts world interests before US interests
Gives great speeches (written by others) until teleprompters go down and then sounds clueless
Is more of a great divider than great uniter
Foreign policy would be even worse if Clinton wasn’t in charge because he’s clueless
Puts his political career before the welfare of the US
Is a crappy golf player
His family goes on vacation (on our dime) every 3-4 months
 
sangha said:
And Clintons were lower at this point of his presidency, and he won re-election. The republican candidates are too weak to win. Most of them are too extreme to win votes outside their teabagging base, and the other one (Romney) has too much baggage.
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As for the “teabagging” comment, it isn’t worthy of further consideration.
 
sangha said:
I accept your surrender :lol:
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I see my attempted reply was incomplete. It should have been as follows:

The economy wasn’t this bad with Clinton etc. etc. etc.

As for the “teabagging” comment, it isn’t worthy of further consideration.
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Not sure what you think you have contributed that would bring about my surrender but feel free to celebrate as if it were true.
 
Ockham said:
Just because you say so. Yes I'm aware of your opinion on that subject.

Years... I'll wait. Why you got somewhere urget to go?

No comment on Obama's 2009 interview. Aren't I surprised!! :coffeepap
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Obama made a prediction and he was wrong. On May 1, 2003 President Bush basically said the war in Iraq was over, he was wrong. He said many times after that, that victory was just around the corner, he was wrong there as well. :coffeepap

Bruce Bartett was a domestic policy adviser for President Reagan:

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So GPS, you have no comment on this section you omitted from the source you cited:

"A poll Gallup released Friday on congressional approval showed that Democrats hold an edge over Republicans in the 2012 elections; 51 percent of registered voters favored Democrats, while 44 percent favored GOP lawmakers "if the elections for Congress were being held today."

I think its is interesting that despite the low support for Obama, there is even less support for the GOP candidates.
 
Conservative said:
The only poll that matters regarding Congress are the election polls and right now the Democrats still control the Senate and you can complain in 2012 when the GOP takes both houses and the WH.
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That and 4 bucks will get you a gallon of gasoline.

Conservative said:
If Americans blame Congress for the downgrade why does Obama have a 39% approval rating?
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Stop lying. He doesn't have a 39% approval rating.
 
Catawba said:
So GPS, you have no comment on this section you omitted from the source you cited:

"A poll Gallup released Friday on congressional approval showed that Democrats hold an edge over Republicans in the 2012 elections; 51 percent of registered voters favored Democrats, while 44 percent favored GOP lawmakers "if the elections for Congress were being held today."

I think its is interesting that despite the low support for Obama, there is even less support for the GOP candidates.
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That is not surprising at all. The American people voted in enough repubs to oust the demo monopoly on government in hopes that they would stop the train wreck of policies that demos were pushing through in the dead of night, and behind closed doors. So far, they have been worrying far too much about compromise, and not adhering to the principles that they were placed in there to do. And that is to stop the liberal agenda.


j-mac
 
sangha said:
bush* economic results in 2011, .4% GDP and 1.3% GDP growth in 2011, 24+ million unemployed or under employed Americans in 2011, 4 trillion added to the debt in less than 3 years, and a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Rising Misery index 7.83 to 12.67. First President in U.S. History to have caused our credit downgrade
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So let's see, if you put Bush's name in front of Obama's record it is bad? Thanks for making my point on how bad the Obama results are
 
Conservative said:
So let's see, if you put Bush's name in front of Obama's record it is bad? Thanks for making my point on how bad the Obama results are
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So let's see, if you put Obamas' name in front of bush*'s record it is bad? Thanks for making my point on how bad the bush* results were
 
sangha said:
So let's see, if you put Obamas' name in front of bush*'s record it is bad? Thanks for making my point on how bad the bush* results were
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Wow, that is the response? I am truly disappointed, come on, you libs can do better than that can't you?

j-mac
 
j-mac said:
Who's lying? Maybe you missed the Gallup poll that was posted? Go on back and look it up.....Obama is tanking.

j-mac
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Conservative is. Obama's JAR was 39% but it no longer is.
 
Obama is a failed president. His poll numbers simply reflect that.
 
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