Comments on: Obama’s Sagging Polls: Do They Tell The Whole Story?

By: DefiantOne

DefiantOne — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:36:52 +0000

You can always count on the Obamamedia spinning and twisting themselves into knots for Obama.

Ergo a focus group (chosen how?) of 12 people in blue Maryland, run by a Democratic pollster, and pushed by the Washington Post and MSNBC tells the story more accurately than weeks of polling of multiple thousands of people.

We do know the definitive answer because poll after poll after poll from every major pollster and all showing the same thing is definitive: Obama is losing support more rapidly than most Presidents of the polling era and his numbers are quite average.

By: Dave997S

Dave997S — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:27:21 +0000

Obama's approval ratings are worse than GWB's at the same time in his presidency and I doubt they will ever hit 92% like GWB had right after 9/11. Who would want to be president right now? I mean you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

By: jpalm

jpalm — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:27:08 +0000

My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts!

Obama is dunce!

By: qwert321

qwert321 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:58:24 +0000

Joe: “Hope” can turn to “Nope” pretty quickly — but Obama isn’t in GWB or Jimmy Carter terrority yet

Obama's polls will never go as low as Bush because liberals will never abandon Obama like conservatives did with Bush. Unless of course, Obama ends government takeovers of industry and starts reducing the size of government. Conservatives will still hate him because he's a lying scumbag and liberals will hate him because he abandoned their ideology.

By: wiserindependent

wiserindependent — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:53:42 +0000

Obama made a lot of promises that voters see he is not keeping. One is a promise to grant concurrent receipt to over 450,000 retired disabled veterans, 10-40% disabled, who are currently paying for their own disability. Obama proposed a partial solution to help 103,000 veterans in his 2010 budget proposal. But the Democratic Congres nixed that initiative. In the end both parities are against the issue of concurrent receipt, but Obama is the one who made the promise to have concurrent receipt taken care of immediately. In the end the result will be popularity down, truth evident, veterans deceived, and the look will continue for other promises not kept. People do listen when promises are made. People will remember they are not kept. End result. Decreased popularity……

By: fractal

fractal — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:37:23 +0000

losers don't want to lose.
losers can't stand to lose.
losers will do whatever it takes to try to beat down the winner.
the media loves a good story and the sheep follow.
deplorable level of consciousness in our country.

mariposa

By: captainsteve

captainsteve — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:31:07 +0000

To all the people that say Obama is legitimate, I would like to know if your decision was based on faith or facts? If it’s faith, I’m not persuaded. If it’s based on facts, show them to the world so we can evaluate them for ourselves!

If Obama has a long-form, why doesn’t he show it? If he doesn’t have one, why not? People that hide things, usually have something to hide. He works for us. We have a right to know! We have a right to demand it!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to send a message to Obama and to EVERY OTHER POTENTIAL VIOLATOR OF OUR RULE OF LAW!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US THE LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!!

Birthers need to start demanding a new law to prove “natural-born” status for future presidential elections. Obama’s position on that legislation will “show his hand.”

By: Ron Beasley

Ron Beasley — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:44:29 +0000

It is not at all surprising that his poll numbers are down. It took Bush/Cheney/The Republicans eight years to destroy the economy but they expect Obama to turn it around in six months.

By: jwest

jwest — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:10:09 +0000

The Gates thing was more than just dumb.

There were a lot of independents who voted for Obama primarily for the hope that he would bring in an era of post-racial feelings in the country. He ran his campaign using the race-neutral theme and made an implicit contract with the voters that he wasn’t like Rev. Wright or Jesse Jackson.

Then he broke the contract.

Obama lost that group who doesn’t care about policy and who doesn’t follow politics, all they know is that they saw him take sides against people just like them without even knowing the facts.

A beer doesn’t get them back. Ever.

By: CStanley

CStanley — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:59:18 +0000

LOL, shannonlee…bingo.

And really, I don't think those comments are inconsistent with the polling data anyway. Obama remains pretty popular personally; his policies, not so much.

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:58:06 +0000

"They honeymoon is over but there are no signs of an impending divorce yet."

Well said Joe.

By: shannonlee

shannonlee — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:48:18 +0000

Funny…a focus group of 12 people should make us doubt the polls that polled hundreds if not thousands of peope.

By: Rambie

Rambie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:45:25 +0000

Joe: “Hope” can turn to “Nope” pretty quickly — but Obama isn’t in GWB or Jimmy Carter terrority yet.

Let's see, Obama has had some missteps (just like any other President) the Gates thing was just dumb, then add on the continued economic problems, which always pull down approval polls. I'm not surprised that his numbers are down. Sure there is things he's done that I don't like either, but I knew that would happen. We don't always get what we want in life in in candidates.

Heath care reform is stuck in Congress, which again is not surprising. I can't believe you or any one of the other political knowledgeable folks around here were blindsided with that.

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Gee Joe, I don't remember you being a shill for Bush when his poll numbers went down.