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Obama approval in free fall – reaches minus 19

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  December 13th, 2009 at 11:13 AM  | 

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Rasmussen reports Sunday’s Obama’s Presidential Approval Index, fell to -19. Only yesterday, we noted Obama’s approval index fell to -16.

There is no good news, but lots of bad news, for Obama in the collapse of his approval numbers:

  • Among those who consider fiscal policy issues the most important, only 1% Strongly Approve and 81% Strongly Disapprove.
  • Among those who consider the economy to be the most important issue, just 26% Strongly Approve of the President’s performance while 39% Strongly Disapprove.
  • Among young voters Obama’s Approval Index rating is -2.
  • Among senior citizens Obama’s Approval Index rating is -29.
  • Obama’s 23% Strongly Approve matches the lowest level of Obama enthusiasm yet recorded.
  • Only 41% of Democrats and 21% of Independents now Strongly Approve of Obama.

Yesterday’s numbers were also nothing but bad news for Obama:

  • Obama’s falling popularity is partly the result of declining enthusiasm among Democrats – only 43% of whom strongly approved of Obama’s performance.
  • Only 36% of all voters believe that the Obama is doing a good or an excellent job handling the economy, while 45% rate his economic performance as poor.
  • On national security matters, only 39% rate the Obama’s performance as good or excellent while, 36% say poor.

Rasmussen’s presidential job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters, rather than samples of all adults. Obama’s numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters because some of Obama’s most enthusiastic supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote.

It’s not just Rasmussen that finds Obama has lost support, a week ago even CNN found Obama’s job approval rating fell 48%, confirming similar results from Gallup, Quinnipiac, and Hawkeye a week earlier.

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  • conservativegeorgian43

    I’ve been following Rasmussen and he started with +28 – which means he’s fallen an amazing 47 points and the Monster hasn’t been in office a full year. Heeeeeeeee-ha!

  • Bobcat51

    Liars always get found out sooner rather than later!

  • lukematthews

    for old Obama and his fellow travelers. When checking on the Real Clear Politics numbers, the traditionally liberal polling organizations, who have been skewing the numbers since the election, are showing a clear downward spiral for the Democrats. The president’s only buttressing elements are the ‘new’ polls put out by the far left Democracy Corps and the CBS/New Obama Times and Robin Roberts’ personal poll at ABC. Their numbers are so out-of-whack as to be delusional. If he’s bleeding Democrats at this time, he’s in deep, cold water.

    Watch the liberals scamper as this becomes more and more apparent.

  • redneck_hippie
  • jacon4

    he still controls congress. The question then becomes, will the members of congress up for election in 2010 save themselves or Obama’s agenda.

    • Bobcat51

      Lemmings they will go down with SS Obama; only hope is that some of the rats leave the sinking ship ASAP. Those Greek Columns look rather fatuous about now don’t they ?

    • jazzycmk

      And the triumvirate of the Bama, Reid, and Pelosi will get increasingly desparate as we near 2010 when their majorities will be significantly cut.

  • http://www.jeannie-ology.com jeannieology

    he’ll do something more outrageous than he has done thus far!

    The President doesn’t think he needs voters to stay in office — watch and see.

    www.jeannie-ology.com

    • janis

      where I read an article that speculated that, as his popularity and influence continued to drop, we would see the side of Obama that he has mostly kept hidden, but that we know is there nonetheless.

      As his influence wanes, he will do things that won’t be the least bit pretty in order to retain his power.

      • redneck_hippie

        Your scenario is one that unfortunately occurred to me not long after the ascension. It only makes common sense that he is driven to succeed in his plans, and that the only way he’ll be able to do that in the time frame given will be to lessen reliance on methods of “soft” tyranny. What it was that was scaring me then and still does when I even allow such thoughts is, that once his popularity tanks, the methods will not be pretty. He’s doubtless on a glidepath to loose backing and support of the powerbrokers. The tanking popular support is the first part of this. The negative 19 approval index is shocking, even so. I think McConnell (don’t yell, please) was right to keep congress working this weekend. Even though they werent’ debating HC, it was still about our Unholy Alliance spending every penny of our childrens’ futures and stripping people in and out of our borders of the hope of liberty.

        I’m going to be praying a lot today..

        • janis

          Obama’s Gestures, Part 6.

          I’ve read all the other ones by Paul Rahe, and they have been excellent. As to not yelling at you about McConnell, no problem. I’m glad that they’re there. One thing I found puzzling this morning on FoxNews Sunday was the panel discussion with Liz Cheney participating. She said that the Republicans in the Senate were doing a “masterful job” at obstructing the Health Care monster. I was drinking coffee at the time and sprayed it all over myself.

          And speaking of FoxNews Sunday, Juan Williams all but had a hissy fit when the subject of the “Obama Doctrine” was discussed. He was appalled that his peacenik, appeasing little weasel of a POTUS had all of a sudden turned into George W. Bush. It was quite the amusing spectacle!

          • redneck_hippie

            Not spending as much time on my online pursuits and it’s killing to know how much excellent writing I’m missing.

            As to McConnell, he may not have done as much obstructing as we’d desire, but he certainly has not helped Obama to be anything but the Grinch who Stole Christmas and even less popular! Will catch up on my reading now. Thanks again!

    • lunarmanathome

      is what concerns me greatly.

      What happens when a narcissist comes to the realization, as the Amateur-In-Chief must by now, that all he holds dear may be unachievable?

      • ericstenner

        He will bust out the EPA whoopin’ stick, pass health care using reconciliation, and take over the banks. The mask will start to come off, and we will see the Rev Wright side, the Bill Ayers side, the Alinsky side. Soft tyranny is for suckers.

  • rodney_robbins

    I think he needs to get those global warming scientists to use that “trick” to “hide the decline” in his falling approval numbers. I wonder what the WH internal polling is showing. I would guess the “real” numbers are probably even worse than what Rassmussen is showing.

    Rod in Oregon

    • ericstenner

      The raw data does not take into account that this is all Bush’s fault. You have to look at the value-added data, which will clearly show that Obama’s approval is on a very clearly hockey-stick-shaped incline. By 2012 his approval will be so high that most of our coastlines will have disappeared.

      • rodney_robbins

        LOL.. I completely forgot about the “value added” data and the good ole hockey stick. Thank you for pointing out the obvious that I overlooked! :)

        • student

          The real fall in popularity is yet to come. His personal popularity is still pretty high. Most people are not paying attention and don’t get what sort of people we are dealing with between Obama, Rahm, Pelosi, Reid et al. The decline in the economy is forcing even Democrats to realize that his socialist policies are just crushing business. (The only growth in employment has come from government, business layoffs are continuing to worsen). When people start to connect the dots, to see how an administration that was comfortable with the Rattners and Van Jones of the world, that insults allies and sucks up to petty leftist dictators, that nationalizes control of our largest banks and manufacturers, the debauches our currency and intimidates business into not investing in expanding – all hang together and all are a cause of our economic decline

  • lurker9876

    Lift that ban on offshore and ANWR drilling.

    That would certainly help him a lot, wouldn’t it?

    • janis

      to happen as Obama suddenly proclaiming Dubya as his mentor and political hero.

      • lurker9876

        Obama will never admit that invading Iraq was the right decision.

        Wonder what Obama’s next step will be in order to get those numbers back up.

        And could he ever get those numbers back up?

        Not if they pass health care. They have to be idiots if they think their numbers will go up by passing health care.

        • janis

          detests him. Who’s left to fall in love with him now? He’s ticked off the Far East, the Middle East, Europe, the Norwegians, Russia, Honduras…

          I know I’m leaving someone out, but, short of throwing in Antartica, I can’t think who it would be. It would take a miracle on the order of raising Lazarus to make this guy palatable to more than just his hard core supporters.

    • Scope

      because he would destroy all the lefty green renewable energy companies, like GE. I know it takes time to get up to speed with new oil and gas drilling, I want that honor to be done by the Republicans. I would like to see someone in the whitehouse in 2012 that understands the necessity of us using our own god given resources that are plentiful, and doing it in a responsible new technology manner. What a boom this country would see.

      • lurker9876

        Only way to make this happen is take over both houses and the WH. But we gotta have the true conservatives in all three houses.

        American Thinker has an article up showing that foreign oil companies are buying up all kinds of licenses out in the Gulf.

        The question is…can the American oil companies survive in 2012?

  • rodney_robbins

    Do these numbers indicate that his popularity is waning because the deceived electorate who voted him in are waking up from the kool aid and seeing him for what he is?

    • student

      The personal popularity numbers are still pretty high so there are still a lot of people who are still drinking the kool aid about Obama. The decline is reflecting the fact that his mismanagement of the economy producing unemployment of >10% (and real unemployment including people who quit looking of closer to 20%) has just caused a lot of people who may like him or believe in him personally to see his policies as failing. There is no doubt of this. The only sector of the economy with growth is government. Any real turn around in employment and the economy has to come from non-government employment which continues to worsen.

      • rodney_robbins

        Well stated.. That makes sense. Also, I see cognitive dissonance setting in. Those who so bought the speeches and the rhetoric are having difficulty reconciling their expectations to the reality of what Obama is actually achieving.

        I just hope the mid term election results reflect this decline, and we see Republicans who can be fiscally responsible retake at least one of the houses of government and reign in this stupidity.

      • Scope

        numbers are going to skyrocket. Right now many are employed in holiday season jobs. Wait until they go away.

        And also, as we are seeing in these numbers, 81% strongly disagree with Obama’s spending practices. So if he keeps printing money, or indebting us even further with China, he won’t be able to send enough checks to the citizens to squash the discontent, especially when they find out months later that that free money wasn’t free after all, they now owe taxes on it. And they will continue to owe taxes on it in the form of the US debt repayment tax hikes.

  • rick554

    In my 56 years , I’ve never seen anything like this. The consequences for our Country of having such a weak President have been dire. Even Carter wasnt this inept. Historic. Unprecedented. Fail.

    • student

      Obama’s uber leftist policies have produced in a year a level of economic stagnation that took Carter four years of mismanagement. He will give opportunity to a generation of economists studying how to completely mismanage an economic decline.

  • throwback59

    (there is such a thing) next, his approval will drop down to -50.

  • student

    In the beginning of his term Obama used his absolute position to get a huge stimulus approved. Instead of using the stimulus to restore demand and speed recovery in the economy, he decided to spread it out over the long term by focusing it only on aiding the growth of government. The consequence of this mismanagement, compounded by adopting a whole series of policies that sapped any business confidence was to further accelerate the downturn by creating uncertainty that precluded investment. (I refer to the nationalization of GM and Chrysler followed by turning them over to the unions, the assumption of control over the two largest banks,cap and trade, proposed nationalization of the healthcare system etc). Essentially Obama chose to use his power to focus on enlargement of the state rather than on restoration of the economy. The consequence is economic stagnation now and as far as the eye can see to be followed eventually by inflation. His fall in popularity directly relates to his own bad initial decisions which in turn reflect his collectivist and statist instincts. To quote the Reverend Wright – his pigeons are coming home to roost. Could not happen to a more deserving guy.

    • rodney_robbins

      I work in a profession dominated by liberals. Some are still blindly clinging to the Obama promises even while the negative impact of his policies are mounting. They are blindly holding onto hope that the debt spending, cap and tax, and healthcare reforms are going to create jobs, and stimulate the economy.

      Amazing how slow some liberals are in understanding the basic economic principles of free market capitalism. Even Keynes would not support such out of control deficit spending.

      • Scope

        still have hope and faith in Obama? I think that they are just to stubborn to admit they supported a guy that turned out to be nothing they though he would be. I think deep inside, even those liberals are getting twisted guts.

        • lurker9876

          they made a mistake in their vote and support for Obama.

          They still seem to think that things will turn around in time. They still believe in patience.

  • Scope

    and I believe that those polled, especially the ones not in the strongly approve column, are afraid of appearing racist if they dissaprove. I doubt they would go to the voting booth tomorrow and pull the lever for him again. The youngins’ are still under the spell of their liberal indoctrinating teachers. Wait until they have to purchase health insurance instead of the latest technological gadget. Wait until they work for little because a big chunk of their paycheks are being confiscated for ever increasing taxes.

    • IJB

      That’s why Obamacare really *is* his Waterloo – if Obamacare, specifically Public Option, is not passed out of Congress, and instead goes down in flames (as is looking more likely this week), then *finally* partisan Dems and all Leftie-leaners will start to abandon him.

      Once his own base washes their hands of him, because of Afghanistan and Obamacare’s failure, that’s when his overall approval numbers will plunge into the 30′s.

      • Scope

        I thought for sure his numbers would dive over his Afghan surge. The lefties hate the dollar cost of wars, and when they are elected start cutting the defense budget first. And, I hope you are right about Obamacare not looking likely to pass. There are those that believe that he will get very desperate when it’s failure looks imminent even to him, and will resort to even more drastic measures to get it through. Didn’t Pelosi say that “they would do anything to pass it”?

      • Scope

        I thought for sure his numbers would dive over his Afghan surge. The lefties hate the dollar cost of wars, and when they are elected start cutting the defense budget first. And, I hope you are right about Obamacare not looking likely to pass. There are those that believe that he will get very desperate when it’s failure looks imminent even to him, and will resort to even more drastic measures to get it through. Didn’t Pelosi say that “they would do anything to pass it”?

        • aelie

          Obamacare is a very good example of fundamental flaws in Obama’s campaign promises. His healthcare package had (and still has) fundamental faults, but the partisan mainstream media was never once brought up the issue to the public. He now has to explain the true cost of his policy to the public, and the moderates will finally wake up and realize what Obama really is – a hype.

          I would venture that when Obamacare is sure to fail, he will display his true colors. That would pave the way for him to blame the right when the inevitable happens, and left-wing nuts will use that opportunity to keep passing out Kool-Aid.

    • clowngirl

      Rasmussen broke down the demographics a while ago and 97% of African Americans at still at least somewhat approve. At the time of the survey, 61% of white voters DISapproved and hispanics were somewhere in between.

      Not to say that black voters only like Obama because he’s black – but I expect it’s a factor. If you could take out identity politics he’d probably already be in the 30s.

    • chbroussard

      When those “younins” get off mom and dad’s payroll, they’re going to stop singing Um, um, um. Barack Heisein Obama.

  • archer52

    Every outgoing President, except for Clinton to Bush probably, sends the same message. “You are a caretaker. If you think you can change the world, you are sadly mistaken.” Many President didn’t listen, Clinton, Carter, Obama (mostly lefties..hmmm….. a trend?) But GWB had an insight and knew right off he could only do so much.

    Obama figured he had extra pull, being black and everything, but is now realizing we aren’t all that darned impressed. He could have done many good things, but that was never his intent, nor the intent of those who propped him up in front of the public like a 3D cardboard cutout. I heard GW took him aside and warned him in a meeting before Obama took office. He was very directed and later told an aide that it was amusing to see the naivete of Obama. “He’ll learn.”

    Thankfully, Obama didn’t and spent a good deal of capital being a fool. Had he been more cunning, we’d be in the soup farther than we are now.

  • blaze422
  • tazzmax

    cares much what the polls say,…he’s going to keep following the “Cloward/Piven strategy” to drive this nation into bankruptcy for his complete take-over of everything, including our freedom.

  • JHancock

    Obama brings down with him in 2010 the better. I never want to see a liberal “filibuster proof” congress again EVER!!

  • bk
    1. Among young voters Obama?s Approval Index rating is -2.
    2. Among senior citizens Obama?s Approval Index rating is -29.

    Especially without Dear Leader on the ballot in 2010, lots of college-age voters will sit it out. But senior citizens are increasingly displeased and they WILL turn out.

  • Crowe