President Obama's popularity has reached a new low.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-seven percent (47%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -24 (see trends).
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Today's Approval Index rating is the lowest yet recorded for this president. Overall Job Approval matches the lowest recorded number, and the number who Strongly Disapprove matches the highest yet recorded.
President Obama continues to earn Approval from 74% of Democrats. However, 88% of Republicans disapprove. So do 63% of those not affilated with either major political party.
Karl Rove assesses the damage today in the Wall Street Journal.
It's not too early to assess the damage done by America's 44th president. He squandered his mandate and the public's enormous good will. He alienated voters and dropped a heavy yoke on his party with useless spending and a shockingly unpopular health-care bill. With pressure mounting and a potentially epic loss looming, Mr. Obama has gone from a commanding, engaging candidate to an arrogant, self-pitying president. It is not pretty to witness.
Unfortunately, or fortunately I suppose depending on your point of view, Democrats are not tuned into the American people. They don't see why all that stimulus spending could be unpopular. They don't understand how Americans could possibly object to a government takeover of health care industry. They act as if all the payoffs and reversals that went into passing the bill, in the face of overwhelming public opposition, never happened.
Democrats explain it all away. Recently Howard Dean rallied the students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Dean painted Republicans with a broad brush, calling them "ideologues" who don't care about the facts and "can make up anything." He called Fox News a Republican "propaganda organization" and suggested that certain Republicans support racism, hate-mongering and unfair treatment of minorities and homosexuals.
"You voted for Barack Obama because he looks like your generation," Dean said. "Your generation has gay friends, and aren't you sick of the anti-gay rhetoric of the Republican Party? Your generation has friends of all different kinds of colors, and aren't you sick of people who go after Hispanics whether they're American or not?"
Dean's message was well-received by the cheering crowd. He told students in the audience that the Republicans would love to take away their right to vote if they could.
"If they're willing to ask you for your papers to prove that you're an American citizen when you go into Arizona, they're willing to take away your right to vote," he said.
How's that for a winning campaign theme? It follows The One's lead – arrogant, self-pitying, and so quick to blame someone or something else. With a strategy like that Democrats are almost guaranteed to be in the minority come January.
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