Oh-My… 2/3's of Americans Upset With Way Things Are Going – Obama Approval Sinks to New Low at 41%
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, October 29, 2010, 8:04 PM
Meltdown. Obama’s approval rating reached a new low today in the latest FOX News poll. Only 41% approve of the job the president is doing.
50 percent of voters prefer the Republican candidate in their district. Only 37 percent favor the local democrat.
FOX News reported:
With less than a week to go before Election Day, widespread dissatisfaction with the way things are going in the country combined with negative views of the economy and frustration with the government point to major trouble for the incumbent majority Democrats. In addition, a Fox News poll released Friday shows President Obama’s job approval has hit a record low.
The new poll finds if the election were held today, 50 percent of likely voters would favor the Republican candidate in their House district and 37 percent the Democratic candidate, with 10 percent still undecided.
When it comes to enthusiasm, more Republicans (76 percent) than Democrats (65 percent) are extremely or very interested in the elections, and more Republicans (91 percent) than Democrats (83 percent) plan to vote for their party’s candidate…
…Two-thirds of voters are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today, and more than not think Barack Obama’s presidency has made the country weaker (45 percent) rather than stronger (37 percent).
The president’s job approval among registered voters is currently 41 percent, a record low. This compares to 43 percent in mid-October and 46 percent in early September. Half disapprove of Obama’s performance. Among likely voters, negative sentiment is even stronger: 40 percent approve and 55 percent disapprove.
Frustrations are high. Most voters feel dissatisfied (51 percent) or even angry (25 percent) about the way the federal government is working. Just one in five is satisfied (22 percent), while 2 percent are enthusiastic. Angry voters are backing the Republican candidate by a 65-point margin.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
patriotaxe commented:
Yeah, yeah. It was a Fox News poll. They count Limbaugh as five people; most of us only count him as three, and they’re all insane.
Chisum commented:
Patriotaxe,
Perhaps, with your obvious great intellect, you can explain this, too:
(-19) on Rasmussen.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
How low can he go?
billy sol commented:
our “charlatan in chief” has worked very diligently to achieve that approval rating, hopefully he can go even lower . . . . . there’s nothing lower than a radical liberal, and he “are” one!!!
gus commented:
The guy is a bumbling idiot. This is a surprise to who???
wolfwalker commented:
41% support for Barry Lackwit is not a meltdown. It’s only a point or two lower than his previous lowest. “Meltdown” should be used only if his approval rating rapidly falls to where it should be — say, about 15%. Or less.
Barbara commented:
Guess this means that his popularity won’t rebound in time for the Dems to win on Tuesday. As late as last Tues. one talking head on French TV thought it was do-able! They’re probably all devout readers of the NYT.
John Steele commented:
The frightening thing is that 41% still think he’s doing a good job.
gus commented:
Maybe he can give a speech about transcending race. Philadelphia would be a nice spot.
jainphx commented:
Patriot axe part of the 41%. Tells a lot about you.
Not very smart!
Not too aware of surroundings ( must mean you’re in mommy’s basement)
Blind to what is happening to this country since Odummer was elected.
My guess is you collect either welfare or 99 weeks of unemployment. Tell us which is it?
gus commented:
jainphx. He’s in High School.
Chisum commented:
Gus, we need better quality, smarter trolls. Heck, I’ll settle for one with an IQ of 90.
donh commented:
The writing is on the Wall….MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN Daniel chapter 5…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1J_mxJotkI
aro5o75 commented:
Boy!!, That means the left has an incredible number of fraudulent to conjure up.
aro5o75 commented:
sorry, fraudulent votes to conjure up.
Rock commented:
The newest craze in D.C. the Limbo dance, how low can you go. At this rate Obama is looking good for first place, not the event he wanted to win, oh well democrap happens
pst314 commented:
“The frightening thing is that 41% still think he’s doing a good job.”
Which proves that fascism is now mainstream.
forest commented:
He’s working down to his floor at about 30%. The hardcore white leftists and 85% of the African American population will support him no matter what he does. No. matter. what.
So by my guesstimation, only about 10% of the population is actually making a conscious decision to continue supporting him at this point.
Chisum commented:
From Krauthammer:
Democratic apologists would prefer to pretend otherwise – that it’s all about the economy and the electorate’s anger over its parlous condition. Nice try. The most recent CBS/New York Times poll shows that only one in 12 Americans blames the economy on Obama, and seven in 10 think the downturn is temporary. And yet, the Democratic Party is falling apart. Democrats are four points behind among women, a constituency Democrats had owned for decades; a staggering 20 points behind among independents (a 28-point swing since 2008); and 20 points behind among college graduates, giving lie to the ubiquitous liberal conceit that the Republican surge is the revenge of lumpen know-nothings.
Chisum commented:
This pic says it all.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-for-troops.html
james commented:
Whats shocking is that its that high. I would think zero would make more sense.
jainphx commented:
The difference between Bush and Obama in #’s
Conservatives will not say someone is doing a good job if they think he’s not, where Liberals couldn’t tell the difference. Bush favorability 30% can only get there with descenting conservatives.
Alana commented:
Well, we just don’t like that whole spreading the wealth thing. And we don’t like that business where the government tells us exactly what health insurance we are going to have, and will tax us more if we don’t purchase it.
We aren’t crazy about the taking over of industries thing, either. Or the part where the government should get to decide when people have “made enough money.” Or the part about totally ignoring established contract law and giving the teacher’s retirement short shrift to the unions, during that Chrysler thing, where the unions were legally supposed to come second.
We don’t care for the apology tours, either, or the constant insistence that we really aren’t anything special; that in fact, we’re kind of altogether guilty, of just bunches of stuff, mea culpa, mea culpa.
We weren’t pleased when they ignored the people getting shot in the streets in another country for protesting their tyrannical government. Or that business where they took up for the South American country that wanted to wreck the little democratic South American country.
We’re just not wild about the fact that they are hell-bent on spending way more than they take in, either, and plan to spend more and more and more and more, like teenagers in the department store with Daddy’s credit card.
We don’t like the fact that they want to shut down the energy industries, while doing things like giving money to other countries to drill in the deep waters, so we will have to buy oil from them, when we have plenty of our own. We don’t agree that putting people out of work is nothing to worry about, as the out-of-work workers will “get unemployment.”
We don’t like the idea of new taxes that will “necessarily skyrocket” our electric bills. I guess we just aren’t all that convinced that the world will end if we don’t make Al Gore and his cohorts richer.
We also aren’t particularly happy with the fact that government employees now make more than people in the private sector, and we don’t agree that there should be ever more and more such employees added on. We don’t think bigger government is better.
And we don’t think that the job of the congress is to make and pass 2000-page laws they haven’t even read, just because “we’ll get to know what’s in it once it’s passed.” Many of us have the quaint idea that it is their JOB to read the bills they pass. We also haven’t quite cottoned to the idea that we work for the government, rather than the other way around.
We don’t like buying votes of Congresspeople by promising them their states will be exempted from the pain of the bill; and we also don’t like the idea that the rules are for us to follow, but not for the Congresspeople who make them.
And we haven’t had a good reaction at all to this idea of the government suing one of its own states, while openly siding with foreign countries, all because the state is trying to keep from being run over by illegal aliens, which is a job the government is actually supposed to be doing.
We don’t agree that illegal aliens have some sort of automatic right to be here, and think that “illegal” should mean something. We don’t like being called racist for thinking that, either. We don’t think we owe every illegal alien who wants to sneak across the border a free educational, medical, and social services ride. We think it is reasonable to be concerned with the crime that comes with it. We don’t like ceding parts of our land to the drug gangs. That sort of thing.
And by the way, we’re weren’t real pleased with that bit about the policeman acting stupidly, either, or that time we were told we were racist for opposing the mosque at Ground Zero. We weren’t impressed with the treatment of Great Britain or Israel or Poland or other allies, and we aren’t particularly happy with the open hand (that gets spit on) toward those countries who would wipe us off the face of the earth.
We aren’t thrilled about the President playing golf so much, for that matter, and taking date nights to other cities, or his wife taking million dollar vacations to Spain, or taking joyrides to terrify Manhattan, either. We aren’t appreciative about being lectured on what to eat, and don’t like the idea of the government enforcing their notions of what we should eat.
We haven’t been happy with being told we are “enemies” if we disagree with Obama’s policies, and we don’t care for the way the Republican representatives have been treated, or the tone that has been set. And we weren’t at all thrilled about being slurred as racist dangerous fringe lunatics when we protested the whole uncontrolled spending spree at Tea Parties and in Town Halls . . .
. . . and oh, I’m sure there are some things I missed!
Mainly, we just don’t like this whole commie/socialist thuggish package of crapola, ya know? At all.
Oh no! Wait! I’m wrong!
It’s only because we are fearful! Not thinking clearly. Our reptilian brains just don’t understand science and facts and all that stuff that is above our intellectual pay grade. We’re just too stupid to understand what’s good for us!
Yeah, that’s it. Has to be it. Couldn’t be anything else! That’s what they tell us, anyway. That other stuff I listed couldn’t possibly have a thing to do with it.
gus commented:
Alana,
We don’t like the GOVERNMENT taking over ALL STUDENT LOANS.
We don’t like GOVERNMENT propping up GM and Chryslers UNIONS while crapping on those who kept them afloat.
OBAMA is a communist. To disagree is silly.
Random Thoughts commented:
“Most voters feel dissatisfied…about the way the federal government is working…while 2 percent are enthusiastic.” I want to know what drugs those 2% are taking, and if I can get some. Only major hallucinogenic substances could cause someone to be enthusiastic about the way the government is working.
Militant Conservative commented:
patriotaxe
Your neither a patriot nor shape as an axe (whic are really a blunt instrument).
The polls of late have been dreadfull is the sample size and probably an incorrect sampling.
That and I lie to them too. I’d support Obama in a poll, makes the conservative really show up en mass. People in America are pissed off to the max. I have been doing my part to pass along the real “news” to the uniformed/Democrats. I have busted many of them and they are either not voting or voting Republican. Many stated I’m not a socialist and cannot vote for one to distroy my country. See this whole 1st amendment thing works. I’m not PC about it either. powder is dry
bigL commented:
We need to forget this mendacious idiot and concentrate on what we can do…
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
jainphx
October 29th, 2010 | 10:10 pm | #25
Bingo! Give that man a cigar!
Shawnet commented:
President Obama may be the first Black President but,
unfortunately,
it can fairly be said, he is also the first President without a country.
Truly a shame.
Elmo commented:
Rock
October 29th, 2010 | 9:43 pm | #19
Always loved the lyrics ‘how low can you go’ and ‘do the limbo rock’ [once (in my early twenties), when I lived near the marina, went to a contest at the Red Onion/Pearl's Harbor (didn't win ... tyvm [hey ... the rent was due, and first place was a nice chunk of change])]. Time will show … how low … this slithering belly crawler … WILL go. It only took him two years to get where he is today! Of course, MSM are indeed completely unable … to remove his salami, from out their gaping pie holes … long enough to even report the news:
“Bush was the nation’s 43rd president. He left office in January 2009 deeply unpopular. He has kept a low profile since returning to his home in Texas”.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_ia595ki746&show_article=1
Dub’s throwing out the first pitch, at Sunday’s game four World Series. He’s gunna rock da joint!
Valerie commented:
Alana
October 29th, 2010 | 10:32 pm | #26
I personally know a bunch of people who normally vote for Democrats that agree with most, if not all, of your points.
I think the essence of voter frustration is NOT that they disagree with the current administration’s policies, but that they don’t feel real good about the probability that the Republicans would deliver their promises, either.
Lightwave commented:
41% and falling.
He will face a primary challenge from Hillary now. The resulting war will permanently split the Democraps into two parties, the Minorities Who Think They Deserve More Party and the Depressed Hippies Party.
GOP will have a filibuster proof margin in 2012, easily. Then the real work begins of eradicating 80 years of Liberalism from our history books and getting back on track.
Hedgehog commented:
Maybe people are beginning to realize, at what ever level of awareness, that this guy is a Communist. Some may truly know this because they know what a Communist is, and how they operate. Others may just have a sense that this guy is unlike an other President in the history of the country. There is something about him that is disconnected from the American experience. That discomfort comes from the fact that his policies make absolutely no sense unless they are viewed through the prism of the Socialist International (i.e. the Communist movement). I just hope enough Americans act to stop him at the polls to overcome what is likely to be rampant fraud. Again, that is how the Communists operate. The end justifies the means. There can be no compromise with such people. They must simply be stopped.