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

Misterveritis · Aug 22, 2011

haymarket said:
that is where you are 100% wrong. The election is not simply an up or down referendum on Obama. Your refusal to admit that is your Achilles heel rendering your views totally a FAIL.

Well, maybe:

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval

Guy Incognito · Aug 22, 2011

Misterveritis said:
Is your medical condition any reason to hope for the destruction of the entire health care industry in the US?

Considering that the health care industry in the US is based on a corrupt crony-corporatist protection arrangement with the government, what good is preserving it?

Instead of propping up the parasitic industry that is bigpharma, why don't we the free market do its work for once, while providing a basic safety net for those truly in need?

Sheik Yerbuti · Aug 22, 2011

Conservative said:
Actually I love how you judge Bush on a few months but ignore the past 2 1/2 years. Bush had nothing to do with the results I have posted over and over again that you ignore and it only cost over a trillion dollars to generate those wonderful Obama results. Bush isn't on the ballot in 2012 and apparently your in ability to understand what a failure the stimulus program was has led to an increase in your BDS.Seek help

Nah, the one who needs help is the one who thinks an economy in January of 2009 that had -9% GDP, 22 million underemployed, 14% unemployment rate, a $1.2 trillion deficit, 11 trillion in debt, a housing crisis, a mortgage crisis, a credit crisis, a stock market in free fall, and a monster recession which lost 8 million jobs and over 5% in GDP -- has nothing to do with the economy.

Not to mention, you're flat out lying as usual. Perfect example -- here you are claiming Bush has nothing to do with the debt increasing $4 trillion since Obama's been president, but for that to be true, it assumes that Bush was not responsible for a penny being added to the debt since January 20th, 2009 (a ridiculous claim on its face); yet it's incontrovertible that shortfalls in Bush's FY2009 budget added no less than a trillion dollars to the debt during FY2009. Yet here you are, fallaciously blaming Obama for Bush's budget short fall.

The lying never stops with you.

Sheik Yerbuti · Aug 22, 2011

Conservative said:
Bush this, Bush that, I have never seen such an obsession with Bush. What did he ever do to hurt you or your family that creates this kind of obsession? You are out of control on this issue. I feel sorry for you

Asked and answered.

Let's see if you can answer this ...

How much damage is done to the country by a president who's doing such a pathetic job in office that his job approval rating sinks to a record low of 19%?

And you seem to think that the Bush isn't at all responsible for the wreck he created.Sorry, but the ill effects linger on. Many people understand that even though you cannot. From recent polls, they reflect that a majority still blame Bush for the current economy and that a plurality still blame Bush, and not Obama for the current deficits we face...

Who do you blame more for the current condition of the U.S. economy?

Bush: 54%
Obama: 27%
Neither (vol): 8%
Both (vol): 7%
DK/NA: 3 %

Who do you think is mostly to blame for most of the current federal budget deficit

Bush administration: 44%
Obama administration: 15%
Congress: 15%
Someone else: 10%
All of the above (vol.): 9%
Combination (vol.): 3%
DK/NA: 4%

AdamT · Aug 22, 2011

Come on, man! Don't tell Conservative that the world wasn't created on Jan. 20, 2009!

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

This pretty much sums up the problem we have in this country today. JFK must be turning over in his grave for how could his words "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" get so turned around. Thank you Barack Obama and liberalism.

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Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
Come on, man! Don't tell Conservative that the world wasn't created on Jan. 20, 2009!

Apparently you don't believe in the present and have no problem spending over a trillion dollars to generate the Obama results for more unemployed, fewer employed, a drop in the labor force, a downgrade of our credit, and 4 trillion added to the debt. Now those are results only a liberal who believes in the nanny state can love.

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

Sheik Yerbuti said:
Asked and answered.

Let's see if you can answer this ...

How much damage is done to the country by a president who's doing such a pathetic job in office that his job approval rating sinks to a record low of 19%?

And you seem to think that the Bush isn't at all responsible for the wreck he created.Sorry, but the ill effects linger on. Many people understand that even though you cannot. From recent polls, they reflect that a majority still blame Bush for the current economy and that a plurality still blame Bush, and not Obama for the current deficits we face...

Who do you blame more for the current condition of the U.S. economy?

Bush: 54%

Obama: 27%

Neither (vol): 8%

Both (vol): 7%

DK/NA: 3 %

Who do you think is mostly to blame for most of the current federal budget deficit

Bush administration: 44%

Obama administration: 15%

Congress: 15%

Someone else: 10%

All of the above (vol.): 9%

Combination (vol.): 3%

DK/NA: 4%

Since you don't know the difference between deficit and debt I am not surprised that a large percentage are just like you. Too many people don't think and buy what the media tells them. Bush had nothing to do with the 2010-2011 spending or budgets which added or will add 3 trillion to the debt. Not surprising at the results posted and now how false they are. Not sure the date of that poll but it does seem unlikely that those are the same numbers today for the Obama approval rating is in the low 40's and Romney and Perry are increasing in support againt Obama

Obama vs. Romney

Gallup
8/17 - 8/18 879 RV 46 48 Romney +2

Obama vs. Perry

Gallup
8/17 - 8/18 879 RV 47 47 Tie

AdamT · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
Apparently you don't believe in the present and have no problem spending over a trillion dollars to generate the Obama results for more unemployed, fewer employed, a drop in the labor force, a downgrade of our credit, and 4 trillion added to the debt. Now those are results only a liberal who believes in the nanny state can love.

I believe in the present! And I KNOW that you can't tell how far you've come if you don't know where you started.

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
I believe in the present! And I KNOW that you can't tell how far you've come if you don't know where you started.

I know exactly how far we have come, 4 trillion more in debt to get 25+ million unemployed and under employed, and a reduction in the labor force.

AdamT · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
I know exactly how far we have come, 4 trillion more in debt to get 25+ million unemployed and under employed, and a reduction in the labor force.

We started losing over 700,000 jobs a month. Now we're gaining over 100,000 jobs a month. We started with GDP SHRINKING at a rate of 6% per year. Now GDP is growing.

See, if a locomotive is going down hill at 100 mph, you can't throw it in reverse and expect it to change direction instantaneously. If you say it can change direction instantaneously you are just being dishonest.

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
We started losing over 700,000 jobs a month. Now we're gaining over 100,000 jobs a month. We started with GDP SHRINKING at a rate of 6% per year. Now GDP is growing.

See, if a locomotive is going down hill at 100 mph, you can't throw it in reverse and expect it to change direction instantaneously. If you say it can change direction instantaneously you are just being dishonest.

What is dishonest about what I have posted? So if we are gaining over 100,000 jobs a month why are there fewer employed today than there was in January 2009 and the unemployment rate at 9.1%? Talk about dishonesty? What exactly did Bush have to do with the Stimulus plan that was to get unemployment under 8% and added to the deficit?

Why is it you have such low standards that you can justify all the Obama spending to generate such poor results?

AdamT · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
What is dishonest about what I have posted? So if we are gaining over 100,000 jobs a month why are there fewer employed today than there was in January 2009 and the unemployment rate at 9.1%?

Yeah, why CAN'T a locomotive running down hill at 100 mph instantly start running uphill at 100 mph? :roll:

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
Yeah, why CAN'T a locomotive running down hill at 100 mph instantly start running uphill at 100 mph? :roll:

Isn't it amazing that that locomotive running down hill actually slowed down and started turning upward in June of 2009 only to pick up steam heading downhill again in 2011? That is the Obama legacy and why his approval ratings are dropping. People are waking up to the empty suit they put in the WH and the failed promises made by that incompetent community agitator. Never in recent history has the economic results been this bad two years after the end of a recession. I am still waiting on answers to various question with today's being how can we create jobs at 100,000 per month and still have a net job loss and fewer people employed today than when he took office?

This just goes to show that you buy the leftwing rhetoric and never verify it. Obama lies being perpetuated by you destroy your credibility as he alreayd has none.

AdamT · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
Isn't it amazing that that locomotive running down hill actually slowed down and started turning upward in June of 2009 only to pick up steam heading downhill again in 2011? That is the Obama legacy and why his approval ratings are dropping. People are waking up to the empty suit they put in the WH and the failed promises made by that incompetent community agitator. Never in recent history has the economic results been this bad two years after the end of a recession. I am still waiting on answers to various question with today's being how can we create jobs at 100,000 per month and still have a net job loss and fewer people employed today than when he took office?

This just goes to show that you buy the leftwing rhetoric and never verify it. Obama lies being perpetuated by you destroy your credibility as he alreayd has none.

No, it's not really incredible that the locomotive stalled. It was being fueled in large part by stimulus which can't be renewed because SOMEONE determined that fuel doesn't really work.

And the analogy doesn't work here, but it's also the case that our economy is affected by other economies around the world. Not much Obama can do about that.

I doubt that your do-nothing solution would have achieved better results.

j-mac · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
We started losing over 700,000 jobs a month.

Yep, it was a bad situation for sure.

Now we're gaining over 100,000 jobs a month.

No where near enough to actually bring down unemployment rates. And let's look at the lie behind this statement. Many experts have said for sometime now that in order to pull out of this negative employment outlook we would have needed to have jobs increase by some 150K to 200K per month at the beginning of Obama's term, not to mention that now if Obama is to get unemployment down to anywhere near 8% next year he now needs claims to drop, and creation of jobs to rise to over 300K per month right now.

You are actually unknowingly making the point that Obama has not only failed at that, but continues to fail daily. Unemployment claims continue to hover at 400K per week, and jobs numbers recently have been as low as a paltry 18K.... That my friend is the morass of failure. And Obama will be lucky not to get defeated in a landslide in '12 should he stay on his predictable course of manipulating numbers, and spinning the results of his failed policies as anything but his fault.

We started with GDP SHRINKING at a rate of 6% per year. Now GDP is growing.

We see GDP numbers being adjusted on a regular basis these days, so I don't trust the manipulated spin on them anymore.

See, if a locomotive is going down hill at 100 mph, you can't throw it in reverse and expect it to change direction instantaneously. If you say it can change direction instantaneously you are just being dishonest.

I really hope that libs continue to come up with absurd analogies like this one here. See, although you can not throw that train in reverse and re climb the hill in a hurry, you certainly can't climb that hill if your planned destination is the bottom of the hill to begin with.

j-mac

disneydude · Aug 23, 2011

ric27 said:
Absolutely. Perry's hard hitting message of JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.....will overwhelm Obama's asshattery of raising taxes, socializing a few more industries, and spending a few more trillion borrowed dollars for solving, the issue

Double-Dipping - 0 points

Jobs - 2.5 points

Until the general population sees Perry's records of minimum wage Jobs jobs jobs for all. Not exactly the America that most people envision.

disneydude · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
Isn't it amazing that that locomotive running down hill actually slowed down and started turning upward in June of 2009 only to pick up steam heading downhill again in 2011? That is the Obama legacy and why his approval ratings are dropping. People are waking up to the empty suit they put in the WH and the failed promises made by that incompetent community agitator. Never in recent history has the economic results been this bad two years after the end of a recession. I am still waiting on answers to various question with today's being how can we create jobs at 100,000 per month and still have a net job loss and fewer people employed today than when he took office?

This just goes to show that you buy the leftwing rhetoric and never verify it. Obama lies being perpetuated by you destroy your credibility as he alreayd has none.

LOL Con....your rhetoric might make a point if your own baggage of idolizing an absolute failure didn't stand in the way.

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

AdamT said:
No, it's not really incredible that the locomotive stalled. It was being fueled in large part by stimulus which can't be renewed because SOMEONE determined that fuel doesn't really work.

And the analogy doesn't work here, but it's also the case that our economy is affected by other economies around the world. Not much Obama can do about that.

I doubt that your do-nothing solution would have achieved better results.

So the stimulus did what it was supposed to do, keep unemployment at 8% or below? Why is there such a disconnect between what you believe and the 40% job approval rating along with the net job losses from this Administration? Please explain why the labor force has dropped since Obama took office

2009 154185 154424 154100 154453 154805 154754 154457 154362 153940 154022 153795 153172
2010 153353 153558 153895 154520 154237 153684 153628 154117 154124 153960 153950 153690
2011 153186 153246 153406 153421 153693 153421 153228

Please explain where there are more people unemployed today than when Obama took office

2009 11919 12714 13310 13816 14518 14721 14534 14993 15159 15612 15340 15267
2010 14837 14871 15005 15260 14973 14623 14599 14860 14767 14843 15119 14485
2011 13863 13673 13542 13747 13914 14087 13931

Explain to me why with increasing employment by 100,000 per month there are fewer people employed today than when Obama took office?

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138333 138641 138905 139455 139420 139119 138960 139250 139391 139061 138888 139206
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Then is there some reason that you continue to buy the lies from this Administration?

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

disneydude said:
LOL Con....your rhetoric might make a point if your own baggage of idolizing an absolute failure didn't stand in the way.

I assure you that I do not idolize Obama at all but I do feel sorry for those that do. Putting your faith in an empty suit and incompetent community agitator doesn't do much for anyone's credibility. Since Adam won't respond, maybe you will. Explain how we are creating 100,000 jobs per month and still have fewer people employed today than when Obama took office and why with a growing population the labor force is decreasing?

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

disneydude said:
Until the general population sees Perry's records of minimum wage Jobs jobs jobs for all. Not exactly the America that most people envision.

Doubt that the people are going to worry about any Governor who is increasing employment and attracting Fortune 500 Companies to the state buying the distortion from people like you. The TX labor force is well over 12 million and 550,000 of that labor force are working for minimum wage or below which is less than 5%.

What is also not being reported is that the BLS is only reporting on states that have the Federal Minimum wage not states like yours that have a different minimum wage. Nice distortion but out of touch with reality. How many people in your state are paying California minimum wage and where is your outrage?

disneydude · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
I assure you that I do not idolize Obama at all but I do feel sorry for those that do. Putting your faith in an empty suit and incompetent community agitator doesn't do much for anyone's credibility. Since Adam won't respond, maybe you will. Explain how we are creating 100,000 jobs per month and still have fewer people employed today than when Obama took office and why with a growing population the labor force is decreasing?

LOL Con.....no....you don't idolize Obama....but you think that GWB was an economic genius. So that tells us everything we need to know about your standards.

And BTW I had to laugh at the second part of your response here. It clearly demonstrates your ignorance of demographics and statistics. The reason that we are adding jobs and yet unemployment has only dropped a small amount is because of the growth of population. Are you seriously unaware of that? The rate of population growth and people entering the job market requires a certain amount of jobs to be created every month. However, perhaps the math is too difficult for you to understand. Afterall, you seem to believe that losing tens of thousands of jobs month after month after month under your idol is somehow more preferable than creating hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. Only in the eyes of a true Bush Apologist......

disneydude · Aug 23, 2011

Conservative said:
Doubt that the people are going to worry about any Governor who is increasing employment and attracting Fortune 500 Companies to the state buying the distortion from people like you. The TX labor force is well over 12 million and 550,000 of that labor force are working for minimum wage or below which is less than 5%.

What is also not being reported is that the BLS is only reporting on states that have the Federal Minimum wage not states like yours that have a different minimum wage. Nice distortion but out of touch with reality. How many people in your state are paying California minimum wage and where is your outrage?

Do you actually believe the BS that you post or do you just expect others to buy into it? Texas hands out more corporate welfare than any other state in the country and the end result........they have the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country.

Your economic policies are transparent.......destroy the middle/working class and pad the pockets of the corporate elite. Sorry Con.....but that Texas model can secede. That is not the America that most of us know and love.

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

disneydude said:
LOL Con.....no....you don't idolize Obama....but you think that GWB was an economic genius. So that tells us everything we need to know about your standards.

And BTW I had to laugh at the second part of your response here. It clearly demonstrates your ignorance of demographics and statistics. The reason that we are adding jobs and yet unemployment has only dropped a small amount is because of the growth of population. Are you seriously unaware of that? The rate of population growth and people entering the job market requires a certain amount of jobs to be created every month. However, perhaps the math is too difficult for you to understand. Afterall, you seem to believe that losing tens of thousands of jobs month after month after month under your idol is somehow more preferable than creating hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. Only in the eyes of a true Bush Apologist......

Aw, I see, growth in population but not nationally? Interesting, the labor force in the nation is dropping in total so TX made the national numbers look better. Thanks for pointing that out.

As for losing jobs, interesting that we have added 4 trillion to the debt in 3 years, increased employment by 100,000 a month during Obama's term and have a net job loss, fewer people employed, and a declining labor force. Those are the results you are proud of?

Conservative · Aug 23, 2011

disneydude said:
Do you actually believe the BS that you post or do you just expect others to buy into it? Texas hands out more corporate welfare than any other state in the country and the end result........they have the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country.

Your economic policies are transparent.......destroy the middle/working class and pad the pockets of the corporate elite. Sorry Con.....but that Texas model can secede. That is not the America that most of us know and love.

Oh, God forbid that corporate welfare which is businesses keeping more of what they earn is allowed in this country. The liberal plan seems to be to have it all go to the govt. so govt. can spend it where they deem necessary. How is that hope and change working out of your in California. Still waiting for the number of Californians are on minimum wage?