As those of us affiliated with the Tea Party take to the streets today to protest Obama’s big government policies, our fellow Americans are registering their disapproval in a different way, by shifting their support to Republican presidential candidates and indicating their opposition to the Democrat’s signature initiative.
According to the Democratic pollster, Public Policy Polling, Sarah Palin is the only one of four potential GOP presidential candidates to run behind the incumbent. Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney edge Obama, while it’s a dead heat for Newt Gingrich.
Sarah Palin, they find, “now lags Obama only 45-47 after showing deficits of eight or seven points in each of the last three months.” Wasn’t someone else just two points behind the incumbent?
With the AP poll (one which tends to favor the Democrats) showing, 50 percent of Americans now opposing the Democrats’ health care bill, “the most negative measure all year,” Mary Katharine Ham observes:
Democrats have also lost long-time edges in party approval and trust on the economy. Phil Klein at the American Spectator notes this is the “8th straight national poll showing opposition to ObamaCare at 50% or higher.”
Why aren’t you citing the Pollster.com graph I’ve seen you bring up in the past to demonstrate the public’s opinion of the healthcare bill? Oh wait…
I’m sure Daniel could offer a good explanation of this poll.
that latest pollster graph includes a Yougov survey which is notoriously unreliable. It shows a 49-51 approve-disapprove split, still a majority opposed which is clearly an outlier.
Still more then 2 years until we vote for a new President. The poll’s can show what would happen today and the pundits then speculate.
With all the RATS jumping ship in Washington it is likely the OBAMAnation will follow before the boat sinks and blame the new guy.
The pollsters should turn attention toward other Democraps to see how they would fair against the OBAMAnation.
What the Democrats (and the littleletter people who rant here) do not understand is President Obama is THE MAN; Congreessional majorities in Congress mean they are THE MAN.
They had their time outside the levers of power (2002- 2006) and said they could do better.
To quote Lex Luthor in Superman returns: WRRRRROOOOOONNNNGGGG!
If the Left were really smart, unemployment would have dropped under 5% last August (again with democrats running everything), but they couldn’t, so they (and their partisans) are to blame.
Suck it up Liberals, this is what you get for throwing hate against Bush and palin. Don’t like it? Don’t start it.
How about a survey of those folks whom the congressional research folks said would be losing their coverage immediately? You know, the congressional staffers and non-chairpeople in the legislature? I’ll bet they’re really upset with the way their vote went!
Will they fix it only for themselves, or for all the rest of us too?
I’m at a bit of a loss as to why UK’s Serenity is so wrapped up in another nation’s polling data.
Shouldn’t he be throttling Belgians at a football match or something?
(I kid because I love!)
Best wishes,
-MFS
I take my promises seriously. Daniel seemed very interested in the numbers back then, but I got the feeling that if they ever turned around, he would suddenly decide to go quiet on me. Hence I’ve placed it in my list of pages to check up on each day.
The current upwards trend in support is likely an artefact caused by incomplete data, as was the downwards trend Daniel cited in the post where I made that comment. It’s hard to see where opinions are going right now, and current numbers aren’t really relevant. A few more months should help show where the numbers are going, if they’re actually going anywhere at all.
But of course this is a sideshow for me, as I’m wrapped up in the campaigning for the UK General Election everywhere but here. I wonder if the Conservatives or UKIP would get better support here?
It looks more and more to me that the liberals now know they will lose their majorities soon and maybe even the Presidency in 2012. They seem bent on doing as much as they can between now and then to remake the country in their socialist image.
It will take a lot to roll back entitlements and giveaways. The debt will be horrifically high and un manageable.
Today the experts were “surprised” at the uptick in first time unemployment claims.
The Obama economic carniage continues.
“It looks more and more to me that the liberals now know they will lose their majorities soon and maybe even the Presidency in 2012”
Don’t count your elections before they hatch! It looks good for you now, but what ideas do the tea party folks actually have?
What spending are you planning on cutting? Medicare? Social Security? Education? Obviously you won’t cut military spending…
The hatred displayed at tea party rallies will only take you so far.
America looks forward to your solutions.
I fully support Obama signing a directive to give visitation rights to anyone the patient designates, including their gay partner.
I am really looking forward to see why you think Obama was in the wrong on this one.
What spending are you planning on cutting? Medicare? Social Security? Education?
Yup.
But the far larger problem in L.A. is one of “performance cases” — the teachers who cannot teach, yet cannot be fired. Their ranks are believed to be sizable — perhaps 1,000 teachers, responsible for 30,000 children. But in reality, nobody knows how many of LAUSD’s vast system of teachers fail to perform. Superintendent Ramon Cortines tells the Weekly he has a “solid” figure, but he won’t release it. In fact, almost all information about these teachers is kept secret.
But the Weekly has found, in a five-month investigation, that principals and school district leaders have all but given up dismissing such teachers. In the past decade, LAUSD officials spent $3.5 million trying to fire just seven of the district’s 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance — and only four were fired, during legal struggles that wore on, on average, for five years each. Two of the three others were paid large settlements, and one was reinstated. The average cost of each battle is $500,000.
Or:
The contract includes a provision that, this fall, will allow an additional seven hundred to eight hundred teachers to get paid for doing essentially no teaching. These are teachers who in the past year—or two or three—have been on what is called the Absent Teacher Reserve, because their schools closed down or the number of classes in the subject they teach was cut. Most “excessed” teachers quickly find new positions at other city schools. But these teachers, who have been on the reserve rolls for at least nine months, have refused to take another job (in almost half such cases, according to a study by the New Teacher Project, they have refused even to apply for another position) or their records are so bad or they present themselves so badly that no other principal wants to hire them. The union contract requires that they get paid anyway.
Multiply that times thousands of school districts, and you reach the hundreds of billions of dollars level very, VERY quickly.
Why should taxpayers be required to pay for incompetent and unfit teachers to receive full salaries and benefits while screwing up children, just so the Obama Party can get kickbacks from unions?
Why do you support unfit and incompetent teachers, gillie? Why do you support taxpayers being required to pay these people when they actually are harming children and draining money away from those who really DO care and can teach?
I am really looking forward to see why you think Obama was in the wrong on this one.
Because he doesn’t have the power to deny people payment for services based on his individual beliefs.
Also, Ashpenaz, if you were intelligent, you wouldn’t support this, because pretty soon, your Federal funding for your “free” health insurance is going to be dependent on you losing weight and exercising whether you want to or not. Same principle.
Meanwhile, the really hilarious thing is this: Obama signed an executive order that says hospitals may allow whomever they like to visit and may respect powers of attorney for health care.
Which they already do.
Once again gillie showcases his willfull ignorance. Passing judgement on Tea Party protesters all this time without even bothering to figure out what they are about. Reflexively trashing them without having the faintest clue what he is trashing.
Everything Democrats have spent money on since getting elected. None of which we can afford, and none of which Americans want.
The only hatred on display at any Tea Parties has been perpetrated by regressive leftist brownshirt thugs beating a black man to a pulp, putting him in the hospital, biting off a Tea Partiers finger, throwing punches, destroying property…the violence and intimidation you jackbooted goons always exhibit any time you aren’t getting your way.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court has had to ask for more money for security to protect themselves, particularly Justice Thomas from the increased threats of violence from liberal racists who do not tolerate any “house niggers” as the “progressive” Ted Rall calls them, stepping off the plantation. And two Republican aides will spend months recuperating from the broken leg and broken jaw they suffered for daring to attend a Republican political event.
You are as delusional as always.
Ashe, that was just Obama throwing a bone to keep us gays all happy. It wasn’t wrong, but it really doesn’t do much. I have been in four hospital situations with my partner and have NEVER been denied access. Further, it is pretty amazing how many gay men are working in health care, especially hospitals. My partner had to have some stents put, and the team that did it, with the exception of the cardiologist, was all gay. I’m sure there are some incidents of discrimination, but having Obama wave the magic wand isn’t going to change that at all.
And I had no problem seeing donna, my opposite sex partner, w/o showing my POA or waiving it around.