The Rasmussen Reports
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. That’s the lowest rating yet recorded for President Obama.
Forty-nine percent (49%) now say that America’s best days have come and gone. Just 38% believe they are still to come. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the country is heading in the right direction. Seventy-five percent (75%) want the Federal Reserve to be audited.
Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That is the lowest level of total approval yet recorded for this President. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove. A plurality of voters now believe the President views American society as unfair and discriminatory.
It is important to remember that the Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all adults. President Obama’s numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters. That’s because some of the President’s most enthusiastic supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote.
Just 23% believe health care costs will go down if health care reform is passed. Most (53%) expect prices would rise and 50% expect the quality of care would decline.
Republicans retain a slight edge on the Generic Congressional Ballot and most voters still have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
Finally seriously tanking in the polls. America is waking up.
I think Obama is on everyone’s nerves. Problem is, being the narcissist that he is, it makes him even more determined to get in front of the cameras and more determined to shove gov’t run health care down everyone’s throat.
Yeah for sure, everytime he’s on Tv he always apologizing for the country, and that the American People are always wrong.
I don’t know too many Americans who will take that lying down, least wise without a fight.
“…it makes him even more determined to get in front of the cameras…”
Which leads to more tankage, which leads to more camera time, which…
Luvvly vicious circle, no?
Obama is so busy apologizing for America on the foreign stage it’s becoming downright embarrassing.
If our enemies weren’t such a bunch of murdering areholes there wouldn’t be a need to engage in such a verbal sackcloth & ash routine
at every turn. Our penchant for endless self critical examination (while our deadliest enemies have no intentions of EVER doing the same)is going to see us in deeper shit than we are already in. Our leaders have become that damned soft even a jellyfish would have a better spine. The West is wavering…and the world’s terrorists & rouge regimes know it. It makes my blood boil to see how far we have sunk since WW2. Leaders like Churchill & Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves. All our countries lost hundreds of thousands of men & women in fighting the evil that confronted the world during that era. Now our politicans fear casualities, terrfied of a voter backlash. Can somebody here tell me when we lost the will to accept casualities in war??? Because if that is what we have now become, our enemies (over time) WILL win.
The enitity known as the UN should be dismantled too – this organistation is a thriving cesspit of sychophants, pandering to rouge regimes and dictators. If it were not so,people like Mugabe,Kim il Jong, the Burmese Junta, Islamic terrorists and Darfur would have been dealt with long ago. America is becoming the world’s sick policeman. She can no longer be the globe’s robocop. Without a strong America anarchy & chaos are set to rule the 21st century. The would cannot bank on China – China is a brutal communist regime that will use and abuse other nations for her own gain. That is already happening as we speak. And….it didn’t escape my attenion with American & Chinese politicans snogging up to one another recently. America is in deep economic trouble…and the Chinese literally have Obama by the nuts. No wonder he & Hilary are being soooooooooooooooo nice!!
Obama is set to oversee the slow decline of America as a global power – what are you guys going to do about that?? What CAN we do about that?
I have a few thoughts – how about America (and the entire West for that matter)brings back ALL it’s industries back home. We stop using countries that hate us as a quarry for cheap goods. We stop giving $$$ aid to the very people that want to see the destruction of our democracies. In short – we STOP elevating them while at the same time destroying ourselves. That would be the first positive step in 50 years!!!
You all are great! Thank you soooo much.