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A minor caution flag for the Obama administration: President Obama's approval rating as surveyed by a major poll has fallen below 50% for the first time since his inauguration.Obama's approval rating fell to 48% in polling done by Quinnipiac University. The Quinnipiac University Poll surveyed 2,518 registered voters November 9-16 and has a margin of error of +/- 2%. The 48% approval rating is down from a 59% approval rating in February/March.
Further, the percentage of registered voters who approve of Obama's handling of the economy also declined, to 43% in November from 47% in October. On the economy, the approval rating was split along party lines: 13% of Republicans approved, compared to 38% for Independents, and 77% for Democrats.
Political/Economic Analysis: In general, to govern effectively, a president's approval rating should remain above 50%, although a momentary dip below 50% is not serious. However, if the approval rating drops below 45%, presidential power, particularly the power to persuade Congress to implement his legislative agenda, deceases.
If a president's approval rating drops below 40%, his legislative agenda will slow considerably, with selected members of his party – particularly those up for re-election in that year – attempting to distance themselves from the president.
The key issues for the Obama administration in 2010, a Congressional election year, in order to maintain/increase his approval rating? 1) Job creation and a growing U.S. economy, 2) Congressional passage of health care reform legislation, and 3) a foreign policy strategy that leads to a victory in Afghanistan and a successful, just resolution of the Iraq War.
Financial Editor Joseph Lazzaro is writing a book on the U.S. presidency and the U.S. economy.
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11-18-2009 @ 4:25PM
FEDUP said...
HE SUCKS!!
11-18-2009 @ 4:56PM
jjddixie1 said...
With the use of their phony polls, many of the messiah's house-broken Lap Dogs have Yet to admit that his approval rating numbers have already slipped beneath the 50% mark... But they will.
11-18-2009 @ 4:54PM
clikdawg said...
During the campaign I mentioned that Obama, as the recipient of a tremendous amount of unearned, unwarranted hero-worshipping faith, resembled no previous prominent American so much as Civil War Union General George McClellan -- dubbed (and I'm not making his up) "The Savior of the Nation" before he'd even fought (let alone won) a single major engagement; and events are proving the connection between the two more convincingly every day.
McClellan, too, liked to style his fatal indecisiveness as "deliberation", and he wound up deliberating away many, many thousands of lives by refusing to commit the Army of the Potomac to any single sustained course of action, even when he literally held Lee's entire plan of campaign in his hands -- which he did before the badly-botched Battle of Sharpsburg that led to his final dismissal.
The inexperienced man who is hailed before the fact as the glamorous Hero of the Hour rarely flowers beyond Flavor of the Month status; and is routinely yanked for some grizzled, unglamorous reliever like Grant, Sherman, etc. -- men who know damn good and well what the job requires and are interested in very little else besides getting it done (and, no, that does not -- repeat, NOT -- mean John McCain); and that holds true no less in the political arena than the military ... check your ancient through modern history for enough examples to satisfy even the most skeptical.
Good luck, though, you think you can "make your own reality" without reference to anything that ever happened before you were born ...
11-18-2009 @ 5:55PM
Customlawnil said...
A want-a-be, inexperienced in anything, man boy. This outcome was very predicable.
11-18-2009 @ 6:14PM
ij70 said...
clikdawg, wow! An American History major or just hobby?
There is one important difference between General McClellan and Mr. Obama.
General McClellan in order to become a general had to start as lowly lieutenant, then major, then colonel. He proved to be a bad general, but he had to progress through several jobs and a couple of decades before reaching the top.
None such can be said about Mr. Obama. No knowledge, no experience, no training.
11-18-2009 @ 8:18PM
clikdawg said...
Good points, ij70 -- McClellan was quite a successful railroad-man; this guy just railroads folks.
History (concentrated mostly in Asian and Middle Eastern studies) formed a large chunk of the interdisciplinary degree Cleveland State U. calls "Social Studies Comprehensive" -- the Civil War has been a hobby of mine since I was nine.