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THE UNREPENTANT LIBERTARIAN on Friday, March 13, 2009 10:42:06 AM
The Wall Street Journal has done a reality check and finds that Obama is doing worse in approval polls than George W Bush did at the same period in time in 2001. If Obama keeps this up he will not only sink the economy and our currency into junk status, but he will also emerge from it as the least popular president of modern times. The only question is why the American people should pay the price for the teleprompter president's inability to recognize his own failure.
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced. Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval rating -- which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve -- is just six, his lowest rating to date. Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative.