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What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. Thirty-six percent (36%) are Very Angry.
Despite the high level of political anger last year that helped fuel President Obama’s election, 59% say the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.
A lot of that anger is directed at the people who are spending billions and billion of dollars of taxpayer money. That helps explain why members of Congress have now surpassed corporate CEOs to hold the least favorably regarded profession in the country.
Just 16% of voters give Congress good or excellent ratings now that it's back from a rough-and-tumble August recess. That’s down seven points from its highest rating of 2009, reached in late May. Fifty-three (53%) percent say Congress is doing a poor job.
Obama’s Approval Index ratings remain in negative territory as well in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
I really thought the American public throwing the Obama agenda overboard would prompt a discussion...
I guess even the left has now accepted this fact, along with the rest of us.
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The gallup says Obama's approval rating is 51% so what's the big deal again? Why wouldn't Pelosi and Reid push their agenda if people like a president who's also very democratic?
Gallup.Com - Daily News, Polls, Public Opinion on Government, Politics, Economics, Management
I really thought the American public throwing the Obama agenda overboard would prompt a discussion...
I guess even the left has now accepted this fact, along with the rest of us.
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Um, because a party is not a person?
Just because someone approves of Obama doesn't mean that they have to approve of Reid or Pelosi.
Oh, my bad. The polls actually mean that Obama and the Democrats are winning the hearts and minds of America's independents. Sure, that's not what the polls indicate, but hey - it sure sounds good?
Majority, for what policy?
That extends to his policies?
I hate to break it to you but people in the same party generally believe in pretty much the same thing. Besides, if people approve Obama's policies they will approve of Pelosi's and Reid's too probably, why wouldn't they?
Nope. Pelosi and Reid both have much lower job approval ratings than Obama.
I have a question for you: What makes you think that a disapproval of Congress translates into a disapproval of Democratic policies?
Who said anything about Independents? Last time I checked the only thing that matters in elections is the majority and Obama has that.
What else would his approval rating be about? His hair?
Correction... Had that.
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Apparently.
His policies and approval ratings have been, well, at odds.
Well, they are against all the spending.
Grim17 said:Against Cap & Trade
Grim17 said:Against government run health care.
Grim17 said:And according to the last poll, the American public trusts republicans on 8 of the 10 top issues in America.
obama's negatives are consistently over 40%
that's always been suicide
it's why his own party is ditching him
rockefeller and wyden each introduced amendments to baucus last week trying to revive the public option
baucus abruptly cancelled committee the next day, citing yom kippur
the gatekeeper didn't know by thursday that atonement starts today?
health care is dead
today, on the sunday talks, NOT A WORD about the impossible issue
today was FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY, and it was a disaster
not one voice today could call obama's foreign policy a success
afghanistan---he's been sitting on a secret assessment for a month, misleading the public by saying he's waiting for his top-to-bottom review (which bob woodward outed on monday), saying he's not yet been asked for more troops (the worst kept secret in washington), he's publicly pressuring his generals to hold off on their reports cuz he doesn't want to be boxed in, his call for a new strategy contradicts his proclamation on march 27 which he called his "comprehensive new strategy," the penatagon's press secty admits either gates or obama requested mcchrystal and petraeus "scrub" their assessments clean...
no one believes him---stephanopoulos, woodward, friedman, carville...
iran---he tried to pass off his no-nukes poetry on thursday in the security council while he's known all along since inauguration day about qom, he's counting on the russians and chinese bailing him out, his policy of personal diplomacy with ahmedinejad is a joke, on march 21 he blew the iranians a kiss for nowruz even while he was at the time in full knowledge of the existence of qom...
gitmo---nuff said
domestic terror plots---obama sounds like bush on the need to empower our intel gathering capabilities, his reversals on the patriot act, he sounds like bush in his readiness to swallow (suddenly) what the cia has to say...
no one believes him
gregory, matthews, odonnell, williams...
FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY was a disaster for the president
his negatives appear permanently above 40%
no national politician has ever survived such
I would say that Obama's policies include the expansion of government. Though a majority say that is/would be a bad thing.Obviously not if this poll says differently.
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