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Re: Obama @ 37%

By: TomTamilio in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 09 Oct 13 7:38 PM | 90 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 20383 of 21975
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I was about to post the same story, Rush, but you beat me to it. In addition to Maobama's atrocious approval rating, two other numbers from the survey jumped out at me:

4 in 5 respondents felt no personal impact from the shutdown.

Congress has an approval rating of just 5 percent.

The first is interesting because it shows just how inconsequential the Federal government truly is. 800,000 workers are furloughed, about 40% of the total, yet only 20% of Americans even noticed!

AMERICANS CLEARLY AREN'T GETTING THEIR MONEY'S WORTH FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT.

The second is interesting since the number is ghastly. It's easy to conclude that Americans are dissatisfied with their President but truly outraged with their Congressmen. In analysis, however, that isn't the case.

The fact is, nobody in Congress has a 95 percent disapproval rating. Not one person. It's only Congrss as a whole that the public overwhelmingly disapproves of. If the public is asked to rate Congressmen individually, there are very, very few who will garner the sort of negative numbers that the President received today.

Looked at in that light, it's he President's approval rating of just 37 percent that's so remarkably bad. Toss in an AVERAGE approval rating over his five years in office, 49.0%, and the extent of his fall comes into perspective. (GWB's average approval was 49.4%.)

Maobama's approval rating has hit an all time low. It's as low as Bill Clinton's AT ITS WORST - and Bill Clinton was an impeached national disgrace!

Then again, Maobama is an UNimpeached national disgrace, so maybe the two aren't all that different.




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Obama @ 37%
By: Rush in CONSTITUTION
Wed, 09 Oct 13 5:33 PM 		Msg. 20380 of 21975

Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players in the impasse, President Barack Obama among them, according to a new poll. It’s a struggle with no heroes. …

Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval rating of 5 percent.

Indeed, anyone making headlines in the dispute has earned poor marks for his or her trouble, whether it’s Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, or Republican John Boehner, the House speaker, both with a favorability rating of 18 percent.
The amusing headline in this instance is “GOP gets the blame in shutdown.” However, the data shows that plenty of blame is being heaped on all sides, by all sides:

— Sixty-eight percent said the shutdown is a major problem for the country, including majorities of Republicans (58 percent), Democrats (82 percent) and independents (57 percent).

— Fifty-two percent said Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with Republicans to end the shutdown; 63 percent say Republicans aren’t doing enough to cooperate with him.
Only 30% approve of raising the debt ceiling, clean or otherwise. And despite the best (that is to say, most malicious) efforts of the National Parks Service, more than 80% have had no impact from the government shutdown. That’s not exactly the kind of momentum Obama and the Democrats hoped to generate for pressure on Republicans, and their “no negotiations” stand is practically designed to backfire, if this poll accurately reflects public temperament.

Maybe that’s why Obama has “invited” House Democrats to the White House tonight:

House Democrats have been invited to meet with President Barack Obama Wednesday evening.

“Members of the House Democratic Caucus are invited to a meeting with the President today, Wednesday, October 9 at 4:35-5:35pm at the White House,” an email from the White House to House Democrats reads.
The original report read “summoned” rather than invited, but the latter version reflects the e-mail more accurately. Shortly after this Politico report, Fox’s Chad Pergram reported that all four Capitol Hill caucuses would get invitations to meet with the President:

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