Obama Job Approval Dips Below 60% for First Time
PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time since Gallup began tracking Barack Obama’s presidential job approval rating on Jan. 21, fewer than 60% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president. In Feb. 21-23 polling, 59% of Americans give Obama a positive review, while 25% say they disapprove, and 16% have no opinion.
Gallup spends a lot of “analysis” explaining why this doesn’t really matter, although a similar drop during the Bush era would doubtless have been interpreted as saying the public was ready to impeach the President.
Here’s a prediction: When Obama’s approval drops below fifty percent (I expect to see that within three months, by the way, so mark the week of May 25th on your calendars to fact-check me) it will be spun as a “natural and normal” decline “common to all Presidents.”
Funny how that works, isn’t it? When Obama is on the upside (though never in his career as far to the upside as either GHWB or GWB reached) he’s the greatest leader since Abraham Lincoln. But when he’s sliding, well, no big deal, eh? All great leaders suffer from spite and envy.
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I guess that means they’re change in the air.
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/ChangeIsInTheAir
I think you’re wrong about his numbers dipping under 50%:
I don’t think it’ll take three months.
I think that it’ll be in a month or two.
the Obamessiah can’t deliver on all of his promises and people are feeling buyer’s remorse. If it keeps up (and why wouldn’t it?) 2010 will be interesting. At least, assuming some in the Republican party can figure out a way to wrest the control away from the idiots that got us to a McCain nomination…
That’s a pretty big assumption, Adam.
Sure, all great leaders suffer from spite and envy, but in an attempt to further martyr him, the MSM will go on and add the, “but Obama has to combat both general public opinion and racism as the first black President, blah blah blah”.
Particularly, if as you mentioned in another post, those in the GOP states bending over and watching California/Florida/Arizona getting the stimulus boon while good ol’ redneck Kentucky, Nebraska, etc. can only look on, get pissed off, and start complaining loudly.
Gallup says:
Hogwash. You know they asked some kind of question like, “Given the economic downturn that pre-existed his presidency, do you think Obama is doing better than you could in his place?” That’s how these polls get slanted.