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Poll: Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows

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"Obama approval sinks to new low". I have a feeling we will be seeing that headline again.


President Obama's job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it's lowest since CBS News started polling on the law.Thirty-seven percent now approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, down from 46 percent in October -- a nine point drop in just a month. Mr. Obama's disapproval rating is 57 percent -- the highest level for this president in CBS News Polls.

A rocky beginning to the opening of the new health insurance exchanges has also taken its toll on how Americans perceive the Affordable Care Act. Now, approval of the law has dropped to 31 percent - the lowest number yet recorded in CBS News Polls, and a drop of 12 points since last month. Sixty-one percent disapprove (a high for this poll), including 46 percent who say they disapprove strongly.

Republicans are nearly unanimous in their disapproval of the law, and now more than two-thirds of independents agree. Almost six in ten Democrats continue to support the law, but their support has dropped 16 points from last month - from 74 percent in October to 58 percent today. Support has dropped 11 points among independents and five points among Republicans....

The president's overall job approval rating has declined among many demographic groups since last month, including independents (a 12-point drop), men (down 9 points), and women (a 10-point drop). More women now disapprove than approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president....

President Obama has also taken a hit on views of his honesty. During the presidential campaign last fall, 60 percent of voters said Mr. Obama was honest and trustworthy, but just 49 percent of Americans think that today....
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cpwill said:
"Obama approval sinks to new low". I have a feeling we will be seeing that headline again.

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That's funny. German public media were informing the population yesterday and today that Obama and his care were gaining rapidly in the approval ratings.
Of course they need to make their social system look good to keep discontent at bay. Actually nobody here can understand how anyone could believe ACA were bad. The public media suggest only fanatics on the far right are against it.
 
cpwill said:
"Obama approval sinks to new low". I have a feeling we will be seeing that headline again.
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I have a feeling that Obama will look back at 37% and wish it were that high again. The disastrous elements of his "signature" achievement will continue to adversely affect the lives of millions of Americans.
 
I dont think he really cares that his numbers are low. He won't be running for re-election and no matter what he does the general public is not going to vote a Republican into office.
 
Americans are finally seeing Obama's incompetence because of the deadline associated with the web site. His incompetence with the economy has been less obvious because there was no major event which pointed to failure. We are just living through a sluggish economy, high unemployment and runaway social spending.
 
Kreton said:
I dont think he really cares that his numbers are low. He won't be running for re-election and no matter what he does the general public is not going to vote a Republican into office.
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He cares very much that his poll numbers are low. His whole presidency has been based on polls.

He also knows that when Dems get creamed in the elections next year because of his bungling, he will be a lame duck for the last two years of his presidency. His legacy will be that his only real accomplishment was a total disaster.
 
Gill said:
He cares very much that his poll numbers are low. His whole presidency has been based on polls.

He also knows that when Dems get creamed in the elections next year because of his bungling, he will be a lame duck for the last two years of his presidency. His legacy will be that his only real accomplishment was a total disaster.
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I dont think he does. He wont come out and blatantly say it in public, but his actions show he doesn't care. He is going to do what he thinks is best for the country regardless of how American perceive him for doing it.

As for Dems getting creamed, I think you are pretty far off base. Dont confuse people's frustrations with Democrats for love for Republicans. In the eyes of many Americans both parties are garbage, but Democrats are the lesser of two evils.
 
joG said:
That's funny. German public media were informing the population yesterday and today that Obama and his care were gaining rapidly in the approval ratings.
Of course they need to make their social system look good to keep discontent at bay. Actually nobody here can understand how anyone could believe ACA were bad. The public media suggest only fanatics on the far right are against it.
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:roll: Astonishing. Do they even carry the stories of the millions tossed off their health insurance, sticker shock, reduced access to healthcare providers, the mass failures of implementation, etc.?

:lol: are a majority of Americans now far right fanatics? :)
 
cpwill said:
:roll: Astonishing. Do they even carry the stories of the millions tossed off their health insurance, sticker shock, reduced access to healthcare providers, the mass failures of implementation, etc.?

:lol: are a majority of Americans now far right fanatics? :)
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If you were to believe the media here, there were a few slight hitches that the right made overmuch about.
 
Kreton said:
As for Dems getting creamed, I think you are pretty far off base. Dont confuse people's frustrations with Democrats for love for Republicans. In the eyes of many Americans both parties are garbage, but Democrats are the lesser of two evils.
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:lol:

The Public gets Buyers Remorse

...The president’s job approval rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, down 13 percentage points this year and 6 points in the past month to match the lowest of his presidency. Fifty-five percent disapprove, a record. And 70 percent say the country’s headed seriously off on the wrong track – up 13 points since May to the most in two years....

The poll produces evidence that the ACA could spell trouble for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. Americans by a 16-point margin, 37-21 percent, are more likely to oppose than to support a candidate for Congress who favors Obamacare. That’s opened up from an even score in July 2012. (Using an intensity rating – those who are “much” more or less likely to support a candidate who backs the ACA – it’s still 15 points negative, vs. 2 points last year.)

The health care law looks most politically hazardous in the states that backed Mitt Romney in 2012; there Americans by 3-1, 46-15 percent, say they’re more inclined to oppose than to support a candidate who favors the law. But the ACA’s no help even in the blue states that backed Obama; while the division is far closer, 31 percent in those states are inclined to oppose an ACA-linked candidate, vs. 25 percent who’d be more apt to support one....

adding insult to injury, registered voters divide numerically in Mitt Romney’s favor, 49-45 percent, if they had a mulligan for the 2012 presidential election....
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:lamo
 
cpwill said:
:lol:

The Public gets Buyers Remorse



:lamo
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You can find a poll to support almost anything you want. But voters seem to be strongly favoring Democrats. What's more the right is largely split. Republicans, Libertarians, and Tea Party and whatever other groups there are. While on the left they blindly still follow the Democratic Party. But if you like polls here you go.

Republicans seem to be playing “how low can you go.” Just 28 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the GOP, according to the latest monthly Gallup tracking poll. The number ” is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992,” the polling company stated.
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I said it before in this thread I think. Dont mistake disapproval for the democratic party for approval for the republican party. The two don't equate. No matter what happens with Obama the right has done very little to change their parties image. People dont really like Democrats, but they prefer them over Republicans.
 
What amazes me, is how those on the left actually believed that Obamacare was going to be so wonderful, when it was shoved down our throats without anybody even knowing what the hell was in the damned thing.

This is a complete disaster and should be held up for generations to come, as a testament to what happens when politicians put their party and their political agendas ahead of the well being of the nation and those they were elected to serve, the American people.
 
Things are looking so bad for Obama that in a year or so, his numbers could drop as low as Bush's did.
 
Obama's numbers are low and he deserves them.

However .. missing in all this breaking news is that the republican House polls even lower than Obama at 21%. Democrats don't fare much better at 25%.

Corporate-owned politicians, nearly every one of them.
 
BlackAsCoal said:
Obama's numbers are low and he deserves them.

However .. missing in all this breaking news is that the republican House polls even lower than Obama at 21%. Democrats don't fare much better at 25%.

Corporate-owned politicians, nearly every one of them.
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The problem is that national polls regarding Congress are irrelevant and meaningless as Congressional Elections are local. Your support or lack of it for my Representative means nothing as you don't vote for my Representative nor do I vote for yours. Based upon the Obamacare debacle the Republicans in Congress are going to look a lot better as time goes by
 
Kreton said:
You can find a poll to support almost anything you want. But voters seem to be strongly favoring Democrats.
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Republicans, Democrats, now Tied in Race for Congress 2014

That from a 9 point lead for Democrats before the shutdown. In Virginia, it almost erased a 12 point lead in the Governors Race. Obamacare is killing vulnerable democrats, which is why 39 of them broke party lines to vote for the Republican bill in the House, it's why the Senators are forcing Obama to suggest administrative fixes to the lost health insurance plans, and it's a story that isn't going to go away.

What's more the right is largely split. Republicans, Libertarians, and Tea Party and whatever other groups there are. While on the left they blindly still follow the Democratic Party. But if you like polls here you go.
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I like the failure to include a link, however, the number is correct but divorced from context - conservatives are more likely to say that they disapprove of the Republican Party than liberals are to say that they disapprove of the Democrat Party.... but conservatives aren't about to go out and respond by voting Democrat.

I said it before in this thread I think. Dont mistake disapproval for the democratic party for approval for the republican party.
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Wouldn't do so - both parties are pretty much in the gutter. Which is why issues become important as partisan identification fades. And the number one issue on the plate is.... Obamacare. And people hate it.

No matter what happens with Obama the right has done very little to change their parties image. People dont really like Democrats, but they prefer them over Republicans.
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:shrug: Republicans currently enjoy an 11 point advantage among Independents.
 
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joG said:
That's funny. German public media were informing the population yesterday and today that Obama and his care were gaining rapidly in the approval ratings.
Of course they need to make their social system look good to keep discontent at bay. Actually nobody here can understand how anyone could believe ACA were bad. The public media suggest only fanatics on the far right are against it.
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In other words, it sounds like your MSM is very much like ours. Anybody against the ACA is racist, btw. ;)
 
BlackAsCoal said:
Obama's numbers are low and he deserves them.

However .. missing in all this breaking news is that the republican House polls even lower than Obama at 21%. Democrats don't fare much better at 25%.

Corporate-owned politicians, nearly every one of them.
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Hey at least we have lefties admitting it now. It seems you guys pick and choose polls as long as you can before accepting the sea change.
 
Democrats are scrambling to figure this out. They should have NEVER vote this incompetent clown into office. He has zero executive experience, and hasn't got a clue what he's doing. He flies around the country campaigning, because doesn't know what to do in the Oval Office.
 
Kreton said:
I dont think he really cares that his numbers are low. He won't be running for re-election and no matter what he does the general public is not going to vote a Republican into office.
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And this is ALL that matters to you.
 
American said:
Democrats are scrambling to figure this out. They should have NEVER vote this incompetent clown into office. He has zero executive experience, and hasn't got a clue what he's doing. He flies around the country campaigning, because doesn't know what to do in the Oval Office.
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In other words they are being once again mugged by reality. :)
 
US Conservative said:
In other words they are being once again mugged by reality. :)
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Obama is a glorified social justice organizer. Go the **** back to Chicago where they appreciate you.
 
American said:
Democrats are scrambling to figure this out. They should have NEVER vote this incompetent clown into office. He has zero executive experience, and hasn't got a clue what he's doing. He flies around the country campaigning, because doesn't know what to do in the Oval Office.
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:lol: it has been incredibly entertaining watching the rest of the country finally figure this out.

"wait a minute..... he doesn't know how to govern! He thinks it's all about just giving speeches! Oh....****" :lamo
 
cpwill said:
:lol: it has been incredibly entertaining watching the rest of the country finally figure this out.

"wait a minute..... he doesn't know how to govern! He thinks it's all about just giving speeches! Oh....****" :lamo
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I miss the left wing narrative " that he led from behind " and that he was "above" the politics. His " genius " was unappreciated and one day we would look back on his greatness, and bask in it's unabated glory...
 
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