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Obamacare Passage Pushes Obama Approval Down

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Of all the major polls, I’ve always consider those from CBS and AP the most skewed to the left.  Well, today, the CBS poll registers a lower approval from the president than does Rasmusen’s survey:

A new CBS poll puts Obama’s approval rating at 44 percent.

Rasmussen has him at 46 percent.

Guess, he didn’t get that expected bump from pushing his health care overhaul through.  Ed Morrissey writes, “Two weeks after finally getting his ObamaCare agenda item signed into law, Barack Obama has reaped the reward of pushing a deeply unpopular bill through Congress.”  The CPAC Blogger of the Year (and all around nice guy) also observes:

. . . this poll surveyed the general adult population, not registered or likely voters, a sample that should have been more sympathetic to Obama.

Two issue approval ratings did get released this morning, and both show even worse approval ratings for Obama on key issues.  He hit a new low on health care, with only 34% approving of his job performance.  Small wonder Obama has taken to campaigning again for health care; he’s getting buried by it.  Obama might do better to change the subject, but the next most pressing issue is another which Americans don’t like the job he’s doing.  He only gets 42% approval on the economy, sinking closer to his all-time low of 41% in January.

Maybe the slight improvement in the employment situation might slightly improve the president’s approval on the economy even though we’re still “8.1 million jobs short of the 138.6 million he promised the American people.”

UPDATE:  Glenn Reynolds offers, “Okay, so my prediction that he’d get a popularity bounce from passing healthcare wasn’t wrong — I just had the directionbackwards . . . .”  I had also expected a bounce. . .

Comments

  1. His love fest in Portland, Maine yesterday was disgusting. His basic message, “There is only one reason to not like this bill : You are too stupid to understand it.”

    I find exactly the opposite to be true.

  2. TnnsNE1 you are correct. When the Arrogant One looks out from behind his teleprompter, all his mind processes is a view of a room full of uninformed dunces, who just need his wisdom.

    Honestly, he is a sad man. So full of potential yet how many times have we seen folks who have all the potential in the world but who think they know it all. When you think you know it all and you stop learning, then trouble lies ahead.

  3. When a person has been told their whole life they are special and wonderful for their intentions and not their efforts or accomplishments, this is exactly what you get. I call it the “Barney Syndrome”. The man is scared to death of having to defend himself or his positions based on the merits of his actual accomplishments and not just his intentions. As any scared, insecure creature does, he attacks his opposition instead of rationally dealing with them.

  5. So full of potential

    When you read this on a recommendation, you must understand that the rough translation is “Hasn’t done squat….”

    Three hours into a post on polls and Obama and Tano is MIA. Do you suppose he has infected hang-nail or something?

  7. As I recall, the only time the needle would move at all was when he would shut the hell up about it for a few weeks.

    So by all means, Mr. President, keep up this promotional tour. We like to hear more about how wonderful it is. Perhaps weekly until 2012…

    Best wishes,
    -MFS