New poll says Obama’s personal favorability rating now underwater

New poll says for the first time, Obama’s personal favorability rating is underwater. Just 39 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Obama, while 42 percent view him unfavorably. That’s down from 40/34 in January. This may be the straw poll that broke the donkey’s back. Captain, we can’t re-arrange the deck chairs again, they’re… (glub!) What was the old Monkees’ tune… “Take the last bullet train to Carterville.” The new hit of the fall TV season will Steven Urkel in “Welcome Back, Carter!” We’ve got a trillion of ’em….

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  • I've been kinda wonderin lately that most of these "polls" are bein made up anyway. 99% of the stories I read from websites, newspapers and such - I look at the comments sections on all of em...what I see is bunches of people that ain't real happy with anything that's goin on...and this does include liberal trash sites - not just the so-called right wing sites. It also includes places like CNN, CNBC, MSnbc....