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Of course, Robert Gibbs and all the lying Obama cultists on this site will insist that Quinnipiac, like Gallup and especially Rasmussen, are not serious polling outfits—and should be boycotted like that evil Fox News.
Hide the Decline! Barack Obama’s job approval rating dropped to a new low in yet another survey, this time in the respected Quinnipiac survey. Obama can only muster an anemic 46% approval overall, with 44% disapproving and 10% on the sidelines. His domestic-agenda priority now has even lower support, and Obama is seriously underwater on a number of issues:
—American voters give President Barack Obama a split 46 – 44 percent job approval, his lowest ever, and both the health care reform package that he wants Congress to pass and his personal rating on handling health care now win support from less than four in 10 Americans, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Voters disapprove 52 – 38 percent of the health care reform proposal under consideration in Congress, and they disapprove 56 – 38 percent of President Obama’s handling of health care, down from 53 – 41 percent in a November 19 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University.
“It’s a good thing for those pushing the health care overhaul in Congress that the American people don’t get a vote. At this time, supporters are down 14 percentage points,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.—

Climategate: Gore falsifies the record… Still asleep at the Wheel Charlie Gibson?

Caroline Baum at Bloomberg writes today: “The real question facing the nation, and one that Obama’s summits and speeches aren’t addressing, is this: What if the job losses this time around aren’t temporary, the “ebb” part of the ebb and flow of the business cycle? What if employers are hacking away at their permanent workforce?
“There is support in the data for the idea that many of the lost jobs aren’t coming back. In November, a record 55.1 percent of job losses were categorized as permanent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average duration of unemployment reached a post-World War II high of 28.5 weeks. And 38.3 percent of the unemployed have been out of work for 27 weeks or more, also a record.”

Global Warming is a politician’s dream. It gives them an altruistic excuse to demand and exercise power over other people’s property. They don’t have to worry about producing ANY RESULTS themselves from that exercise of power. And the metrics of the issue are so amorphous that they can declare success at any time.
It reminds one of the Stimulus, doesn’t it?

for the people who like easy answers, have no patience, want it their way or the highway even though they might not have any idea what they’re talking about, we agree.
Posted by: Cara A | Dec 9, 2009 1:17:57 PM
That would include the millions of people who voted for Obama thinking (hoping) he was going to “take care of them?”

That would include the millions of people who voted for Obama thinking (hoping) he was going to “take care of them?”
Posted by: Live! From DC! It’s Sat Night! | Dec 9, 2009 1:29:31 PM
What an absurd statement. Do you have a survey that shows that anyone thought that, or how many?
Posted by: Cara A | Dec 9, 2009 1:41:19 PM
Of course I don’t have a survey of what people thought. What an absurd demand.
I know that exit polls showed a heavy identification with Obama by ethnicity that he understood their cultures and what they needed from him. This from a candidate who campaigned on social justice and wealth redistribution. So it’s not such a gross oversimplification and I stand by my statement.
Voted for Obama:
Black – 95%
Hispanic – 67%
Asian – 62%
White – 43%

“in 18 months, it’s been 10 and economists agree we’re on track”
Posted by: Jemma | Dec 9, 2009 1:56:51 PM
“ON TRACK”? Really?
“Even with the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February, more than 4 MILLION jobs have been lost in 2009, the worst year for job losses since World War II.” (USA Today 12/3/09)
The lesson, as always, is that Obama Cultists are utterly delusional.

Interesting that ethnicity plays a major role in party identification, especially since the Democrats run on social justice and redistribution of wealth platforms, which was racheted up to a campaign frenzy in 2008 where the highest percentages are revealed.
Voted for Obama, Kerry, Gore:
Black – 95%, 88%, 90%
Hispanic – 67%, 53%, 62%
Asian – 62%, 56%, 55%
White – 43%, 41%, 42%

The intelligence (and maturity) of everyday conservatives on display right here at Political Punch.
Posted by: Cara A | Dec 9, 2009 3:11:25 PM
By all means – ignore the issue.
Voted for Obama, Kerry, Gore:
Black – 95%, 88%, 90%
Hispanic – 67%, 53%, 62%
Asian – 62%, 56%, 55%
White – 43%, 41%, 42%

Democrats have always been the party of ordinary Americans. Republicans the party of the rich.
Posted by: tierra | Dec 9, 2009 4:10:36 PM
“According to last year’s election day exit poll, … separated voters into eight brackets of family income. It showed that Bush carried the white vote in seven of these eight brackets (all but the poorest) – and that he won by significant margins (see table) in six of the eight brackets, including by a 17 percentage point edge among whites with annual incomes of $30,000-$49,999.” – Pew Research, 2005
So to filter your statment through Pew Research, we can conclude that there are no white “ordinary Americans.”

“the familiar “Republicans are rich/Democrats are poor” stereotype is much more true now – at least at the extremes of the income curve – than it was a half century ago when the AFL-CIO was founded. However, when it comes to partisanship and income, the key battleground in American politics is in the middle brackets. And there, after a long slow climb that has occurred mostly in the past two decades, the GOP has reached parity with the Democrats.” Pew Research, 2005
Partisanship and income in the middle income brackets… the GOP has reached parity with the Democrats… Middle income brackets = ordinary Americans? Hmm very interesting.

Obama has to bailout the banks, and send more troops to war, when can we bring our boys back and put the budget to better use, here’s an article with the latest.

What a bunch of dimwits! Green Jobs vs. Manufacturing, Obama VS Bush? You people dont see the big picture. The politicians on both sides are selling out the American middle class. We need more rules in effect to make lobbyist money/political contributions more transparent. We have them to blame for being in this mess now. They should start by placing a Unemployment and Retraining tax Tarrif on any company who moves jobs overseas. Also no TARP or Fed grant money to companies that off shored jobs in the last 2 years. Because of the 15.4 million unemployed people since the first of the year. Also close ALL off shore tax loopholes were it is cheaper to off shore a job then it is to create one in this country. Small Business for job creation? If youre talking about min wage part time work for Teens and college students thats fine. But to raise a family in minimum wage and part-time work you would have to count of government food stamps to just eat. I bet 90% of those jobs got off shored to call centers for customer service for everything from credit cards, DSL/Cable, Digital TV, Cell phone , gas/electric utility to any customer service or computer help deck position. This is the state of America today. It is a national disgrace. It has completely destroyed the American middle class and ruin countless lives. Its all about cheap labor and corporate greed.