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Clinton Pollster: Obama Popularity Dropping Like a Stone
by: Bill Dupray posted: 2009-03-13 17:18:00
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In today's Wall Street Journal, former (Bill) Clinton pollster Doug Schoen, along with Scott Rasmussen, report what the MSM is trying its hardest to ignore.
Obama is a disaster.
The article is packed with tons of evidence, but here is a taste.
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 bottom line is they just don't believe that O-Socialism is the answer.
The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives.There is also a clear sense in the polling that taxes will increase for all Americans because of the stimulus, notwithstanding what the president has said about taxes going down for 95% of Americans. Close to three-quarters expect that government spending will grow under this administration.
Recent Gallup data echo these concerns. That polling shows that there are deep-seated, underlying economic concerns. Eighty-three percent say they are worried that the steps Mr. Obama is taking to fix the economy may not work and the economy will get worse. Eighty-two percent say they are worried about the amount of money being added to the deficit. Seventy-eight percent are worried about inflation growing, and 69% say they are worried about the increasing role of the government in the U.S. economy.
When Gallup asked whether we should be spending more or less in the economic stimulus, by close to 3-to-1 margin voters said it is better to have spent less than to have spent more.
Higher taxes and spending have always been the Democrats' prescription for everything. They lack even a basic understanding of economics and history. Normal people understand from their daily experience that if you are in dire financial straits, you don't run up all your credit cards and voluntarily cut your own pay, and yet that is exactly what these morons in Washington are doing.
As I have said many times, the Democrats won the election. They have the right to govern how they choose. I am happy they have chosen this course, so the American people can see raw, full-throated Socialism in action. They are already becoming nauseated by these policies, and by next November they will be trying not to vomit as they run to vote these thieving bastards out of office.
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Eighty-two percent say they are worried about the amount of money being added to the deficit. Seventy-eight percent are worried about inflation growing, and 69% say they are worried about the increasing role of the government in the U.S. economy.
When Gallup asked whether we should be spending more or less in the economic stimulus, by close to 3-to-1 margin voters said it is better to have spent less than to have spent more.
I'm really glad to see that most Americans have not been taken in by the "economy's in crisis, give us your wallets" rhetoric.