Posts Tagged ‘polls’
President Obama has experience a slow but steady decline in his polling numbers since the day he was sworn into office. This is to be expected, it’s kind of like those “you start dying the day your born” sort of thing.
Our friends at Gallup say never fear, this is natural in a presidency. In a new study the Obama’s numbers look strikingly similar to the trends of two other presidents; Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
The study examined polling data for every president since Eisenhower and tracked trends in their first 20 months in office.
Thanks to TPM
Thanks to TPM
All three presidents started off strong but suffered declining poll numbers culminating in big mid-term losses. Obviously President Obama is his own man, but despite a rough two years it history shows us this is only the beginning.
Not that the Presidency is just like high-school, but we would say Obama is coming out of his freshman year. Who was cool in their freshmen year? In this analogy sluggish economy = braces face.
With a new GOP majority in the House, Obama is definitely entering a new phase of his presidency. Where it will go from here is very difficult to predict.
"Yeah, I didn't see that coming either."
George Bush hasn’t been the president for nearly two years now, but apparently some pollsters are still gauging his approval rating!
And, well, it’s a point higher than President Obama’s, according to polls summed up by Politico. (GWB had 47% while Obama put up a solid 46%.)
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What do you think is going on here? When Dubya left office, his approval was in the 25%-range. (Some people must really like his book.) Is Obama really doing that badly that his predecessor is starting to look better??? Or is it all skewed public perception??
Thanks to blog.creativethink.com!
We here at USDemocrazy know all about consequences. Like that time that we didn’t study and failed, or that time we slept in and were late to class… …read more.
We at USDemocrazy are familiar with the idiom “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But what if something is broke? And what if the “something” is Washington, D.C.?
Many Americans are at their wit’s end with the government, and as the video below shows, even members of government are stumped.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Sunday, 86% of Americans believe that the government is broken. Only 14% of those polled thought government was working properly.
There is hope though! Of the 86% that believe our government is broken, 81% say it can be salvaged… but 5% claim it is irreparably damaged.
So what do you think? Is government broken in the first place, and if so, how can it be fixed?
Scott Brown (left) annd Martha Coakley
This coming Tuesday is an important day for USDemocrazy. We’re going to see Avatar for the sixteenth time!
But apparently it’s also a big day for blue people that have nothing to do with James Cameron: the Democrats.
Tuesday there will be an election for a Massachusetts Senate seat occupied by the late Ted Kennedy. This election is tightly tied to health care reform, an issue Mr. Kennedy was very passionate about.
Here’s the contenders: Democrat Martha Coakley vs. Republican Scott Brown. And it’s going to be a close one, folks.
Why is this a big election for health care reform? Says the Wall Street Journal:
If Brown wins, ObamaCare dies. He would be the 41st vote to prevent any compromise legislation from coming to the floor of the Senate.
And if ObamaCare dies, then Mr. Obama himself won’t look so great. Hence why he has been right there with Coakley, campaigning hard for a Democrat to keep the seat. (check out above video that doesn’t include hecklers) …read more.
