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Obama’s approval ratings in freefall, now down to -8%

It’s getting worse by the day for The Greatest President In the History, Barack Obama. Rasmussen reports yesterday he was down by 5%, today he’s down by 8%.

Barack Obama approval ratings in freefall

It’s getting worse by the day for The Greatest President In the History. Yesterday he was down by 5%, today he’s down by 8%.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8. The President’s Approval Index rating has fallen six points since release of a disappointing jobs report last week.

Thirty-nine percent (39%) now give the President good or excellent marks for handling the economy while 43% say he is doing a poor job. Those are by far his lowest ratings yet on the economy Premium Members can see crosstabs, trends, and Scott Rasmussen’s Daily Briefing.

The honeymoon is over. When can we begin the divorce proceedings?

Source: RasmussenReports.com

President’s popularity dropping like a rock. A big, heavy rock.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.

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The approval rating for The Greatest President In History has been trending south lately. And the pace is accelerating. According to Rasmussen, he just hit his lowest negative rating to date:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.

The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama.

Decline, descent, dip, dive, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop-off, fall, nosedive, plunge, skid, slide, slump, tumble. Call it what you want. We are witnessing the decline and fall of the Obama Empire.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Latest Russian poll says only 23% trust Obama

Only 23% of Russians trust Obama when it comes to international affairs. An overwhelming 55% don’t trust him.

Russians do not trust Obama
"I see plunging poll numbers. That will be $25."

You won’t get this story from the nightly network news in America, but the average Igor in Russia doesn’t trust President Obama. Not at all.

According to a survey conducted by Levada Center and WorldPublicOpinion.org , only 23% of Russians trust Obama when it comes to international affairs. An overwhelming 55% don’t trust him.

Criswell predicts: Give it a few more months and the polls will look very similar in the United States.

Dosvedanya, Comrade Obama.

Source: WorldPublicOpinion.org via TheHill.com

Poll shows Obama sinking further into negative territory

Barack Obama has a Presidential Approval Index rating of –3. These reflects the highest level of strong disapproval measured to date and the lowest level recorded for the overall Approval Index.

Rasumssen Reports Obama down 3

In the words of the Rasmussen Report:

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 33% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –3. Those figures reflect the highest level of strong disapproval measured to date and the lowest level recorded for the overall Approval Index.”

And the words of Bruce Springsteen:

I’m goin down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Watch out below! President’s popularity sinks into negative territory for first time in Rasmussen poll

President Obama’s popularity has been sinking faster than the Titanic lately. This is confirmed by today’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll.

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President Obama’s popularity has been sinking faster than the Titanic lately. This is confirmed by today’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll.

32% of voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. 34% Strongly Disapprove. That gives the President a Presidential Approval Index rating of -2%

That’s the first time President Obama’s daily rating has ever gone into negative territory.

Rasmussen says, “Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats Strongly Approve of the President’s performance but only 8% of Republicans share that view. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove.”

Say bye-bye healthcare. Say adios cap and trade. Say au revoir further stimulus.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Gallup says America has two conservatives for every liberal

According to Gallup, “40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

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Is that Keith Olbermann we hear choking on his own tongue? James Carville going into cardiac arrest? Janeane Garofalo hyperventilating?

According to Gallup, “40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.”

Don’t look now, but the emperor has no clothes and even his magnificent pecs aren’t distracting the populace any longer.

Source: Gallup.com

James Carville said Democrats would rule for 40 more years. He may have been off by about 38.

This is the the kind of "change" the Obama administration hoped for.
This is not the kind of "change" the Obama administration hoped for.

“Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.”

Must have been a whole lot ‘o hyperventilatin’ goin’ on over at MSNBC when they read that Rasmussen Reports summary of its latest national telephone survey.

Rasmussen found that 45% of likely voters now have more confidence in Republicans’ ability to handle economic issues. Only 39% favor Democrats. And to twist the knife a little more, independent voters now trust the GOP by a two-to-one margin.

This is the first time in more than two years that Republicans have come out on top.

“The latest survey was taken just after General Motors announced it was going into bankruptcy as part of a deal brokered by the Obama administration that gives the government majority ownership of the failing automaker,” Rasmussen continued.

Unemployment is skyrocketing. The national debt is exploding. The dollar is collapsing. Interest rates are rising. Inflation is rearing its ugly head. We’re just surprised it took this long for the voters to figure out these guys don’t know what they’re doing.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Another bad day at the polls for the Barackistas

Here are the results of a series of polls reported Tuesday by Rasmussen. The question is, how long will it take for the American people to notice that they don’t agree with this administration on very much?

Just 21% Favor GM Bailout Plan, 67% Oppose

42% Expect Housing Market Will Take More Than Three Years To Recover

77% of Georgia Voters Favor ID Checks Before Voting, Justice Department Disagrees

52% Still Fear Government Will ‘Help’ Economy Too Much

Voters Put More Emphasis On Deficit Cutting Over Health Care Reform

Source: Rasmussen Reports

39% of Americans think we should pay more attention to national security, less to individual rights

Former Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis once said, ''I recommend we have a portable gallows, and after we have the death penalty back in, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker out there, and hang him with due process at the airport.'' Where's Ed Davis when we need him?
Former Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis once said, ''I recommend we have a portable gallows, and after we have the death penalty back in, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker out there, and hang him with due process at the airport.'' Where's Ed Davis when we need him?

Democrats bend over backward to defend the rights of terrorists. At least that’s what the results of a recent Rasmussen poll show.

According to the poll, 39% of voters nationwide believe our legal system worries too much about protecting individual rights. Just 24% think our legal system worries too much about national security. 25% say the balance is about right.

As you might expect, there’s a split along party lines. 54% of Republicans say the legal system worries too much about individual rights. 42% of unaffiliated voters agree.

Naturally, Democrats go the other way. Only 34% of them say the legal system is too concerned about national security.

We say, “Off with their heads.” But the difference between us and the terrorists is that we’re only speaking figuratively.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Gallup survey can’t find one British Muslim who approves of homosexuality

It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple
It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple

Bad news for Elton John. According to a recent survey, British Muslims have zero tolerance for homosexual acts.

What’s that? They didn’t mean show business acts performed by homosexuals? Oh. Our apologies to Elton.

Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with 500 Muslims in the UK, France and Germany.

“The most dramatic contrast was found in attitudes towards homosexuality,” the study said. “None of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable.”

Remarkable. They couldn’t find a single British Muslim who would come out publicly in support of homosexuals. Not one.

“By comparison, 35% of French Muslims found homosexual acts to be acceptable,” it continued. “A question on pornography also elicited different reactions, with French and German Muslims more likely than British Muslims to believe that watching or reading pornography was morally acceptable.”

So much for the glories of multiculturalism. Like all liberal philosophies, it grossly over-promises and dramatically under-delivers. Kind of like an Elton John concert.

Source: Guardian UK

Only right wing extremists don’t support the President, so ignore these pesky polls

"Hey, Rahm, now that our attorneys are done threatening Wall Street, tell them to threaten that Rasmussen guy next."
"Hey, Rahm, now that our attorneys are done threatening Wall Street, tell them to threaten that Rasmussen guy next."

What’s that? These polls come from the impartial, highly-respected Rasmussen Reports polling organization? Impossible. They must be right wing extremists, too.

Generic Ballot: Republicans 40% Democrats 39%

Only 18% Say UAW, Government Will Do Good Job Running GM, Chrysler

42% Say Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Will Be Too Liberal, 41% Say About Right

75% Oppose Release of Guantanamo Inmates in the United States

71% View Obama as Politically Liberal

52% Say Notre Dame Made a Mistake Honoring Obama

Source: RasmussenReports.com

President’s approval ratings steadily eroding

The trend is not the President's friend according to Rasmussen Reports' latest poll.
The trend is not the President's friend according to Rasmussen Reports' latest poll.
Two separate polls conducted by Rasmussen Reports seem to indicate trouble for President Obama.

The first poll says, “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 33% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1.”

The second poll says, “The number of people who consider themselves Republicans declined slightly in April while the number of Democrats held steady.”

A margin of +1 is the lowest approval margin Obama’s had in his 100+ days. That, in itself, is bad enough. But it gets worse.

If the percentage of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats is up, yet Obama’s approval margin is down, that’s a bad combination for the President.

We see a simple way for President Obama to reverse this trend. Now that the government already owns Chrysler and General Motors, all the President needs to do is nationalize Foster Farms. Then he can deliver on Herbert Hoover’s promise of “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.”

And it can all be done at the expense of the dozen people who still pay taxes.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Time magazine internet survey says unknown college kid is the world’s most influential person

Ellen DeGeneres, John Travolta, Nicolas Sarkozy, Vladimir Putin, Helen Keller and Simon Cowell. Just a few of the unimportant people in the Time Magazine internet poll.
Ellen DeGeneres, John Travolta, Nicolas Sarkozy, Vladimir Putin, Helen Keller and Simon Cowell. Just a few of the unimportant people in the Time Magazine internet poll.
Time Magazine intentionally designed an internet poll to prove that internet polling is stupid. Or they intentionally designed an internet poll to prove that they themselves are stupid. Maybe both.

Here’s how Time describes the results:

In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it’s worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.

Time continued:

Undoubtedly, many people will question moot’s worthiness of the title World’s Most Influential Person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). “I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll,” he says. “Doubting the results is kind of the point.”

Time’s circulation is plummeting. And they seem to think that the way to reverse that trend is to conduct and promote a poll that they themselves admit is meaningless.

What the hell. It’s an improvement over just plain making crap up.

Source: Time Magazine

Bad day in the polls for the Obama administration

A quick review of recent polls shown at Rasmussen Reports may indicate that the Obama administration may be looking at trouble on several fronts.

45% View Homeland Security’s Napolitano Unfavorably

58% Say Release of CIA Memos Endangers National Security

60% Say Government Has Too Much Power, Too Much Money

Most Americans Say Bailouts Were Bad Idea, Political Class Disagrees

53% Say Next President Likely To Be A Republican

Voters See Long-Term Pain in Bank Bailouts

Republicans Close The Gap With Democrats on Several Key Issues

Most Voters Say They Pay More Than Their Share of Taxes, Political Class Disagrees

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Americans cooling on Al Gore’s global warming theory, only one third agree

Antarctic ice melting at unprecedented rate due to steam coming out of Al Gore's ears.
Antarctic ice melting at unprecedented rate due to steam coming out of Al Gore's ears.

Al Gore is not going to like the latest Rasmussen Report on global warming. No, he’s not going to like it at all.

A year ago, 47% of likely American voters thought man was the primary cause of global warming. This year just 34% agree while 48% say climate change is the result of long-term planetary trends. 7% blame “something else.” 11% just aren’t sure. It’s the worst repudiation of Gore’s unscientific theory to date.

As you might expect, 51% of knee jerk Democrats agree with Gore that man is to blame. Luckily, 66% of Republicans and 47% independents disagree.

Gore has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an ad campaign to convince the American people that his global warming hogwash is true, but the public’s not buying it. Kind of like his presidential campaign. Except he actually won that vote.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Obama’s presidential approval rating is slipping, watch out below

obama_chart According to Rasmussen’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll released on Sunday, President Obama has slipped to the lowest approval rating of his presidency.

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 34% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +2, his lowest total to date.”

For God’s sake, man, this guy just got a puppy and he named it Bo. And the media reported it with more enthusiasm than when he named his Secretary of State. The damn dog will probably give him a bounce in tomorrow’s poll.

Poll shows Americans think gun control advocates are way off target

gun_control Here’s a pleasant surprise. A new Gallup poll shows that support for gun control has dropped to just 29%, the lowest level in history. But don’t hold your breath waiting to see it on the evening news.

The question was “Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?”

The surprise is how dramatically support for gun control has fallen. Advocates seemed to have their goal in their sights back in 1959 when 60% of Americans supported gun control. But it’s been almost straight down hill since then. Support now rests at just 29%.

Guns don’t kill gun control advocates. Polls do.

Source: HotAir.com

37% say U.S. has been arrogant and dismissive of Europe. We say, “Who cares?”

22% of Americans want us to be more like Europe. We'll pass.
22% of Americans want us to be more like Europe. We'll pass.
Rasmussen Reports conducts some interesting surveys. One of their new national telephone surveys shows that 37% “of American voters agree that in dealing with its European allies over the years, the United States has shown arrogance, been dismissive, and even derisive.”

Luckily, the same survey found that 47% disagree with that statement. 16% are not sure. (We suspect that the answer to this question is not all they’re unsure of.)

The best part of the survey is that 54% of American voters think the world would be better off if Europe became more like the United States. 22% think the world would better off it we became more like Europe.

If that 22% is talking about topless beaches, we’re with ’em. But if they’re talking about lederhosen, forget it.

Source: RasmussenReports

Latest phony CBS/New York Times poll surveys 69% more Democrats than Republicans

Typical American participating in the latest CBS/New York Times phone poll.
Typical American participating in the latest CBS/New York Times phone poll.

There’s nothing funnier than actually looking at the “internals” of liberal polls. Because they often reveal truths the summaries gloss over.

For example, here’s what the summary of the latest CBS/New York Times says:

Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country in the 11 weeks since President Obama was inaugurated, suggesting that he is enjoying some success in his critical task of rebuilding the nation’s confidence, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. 

It continued:

(J)ust 31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked in New York Times/CBS News polls.

Now here’s what the summary didn’t tell you. Look deeper into the poll at the demographic breakdown of who was actually questioned and you quickly see how skewed the results are. Who participated in the poll?

39% Democrats
23% Republicans
30% Independents

Say what? 69.6% more Democrats than Republicans? President Obama only got 53% of the vote. In the recent House election in upstate New York a Democrat only got 50% of the vote in a Democrat district.

So how about if you make this closing paragraph the new opening paragraph of the New York Times/CBS poll summary:

“The latest fraudulent CBS/New York Times poll kept questioning Democrats until we got the answers to line up with the story we had already written. Here are the results of that bogus poll.”

Source: TimesWatch.org

“54% Count On U.S. Business Leaders More Than World Leaders To Help U.S. Economy”

Mmmmm, the tasty paste of the liver of a specially force-fed goose. Americans are finding the results of the G20 meeting equally hard to swallow.
Mmmmm, the tasty paste of the liver of a specially force-fed goose. Americans are finding the results of the G20 meeting equally hard to swallow.
Well, they ate a lot of truffles and pâté de Foie Gras and other fancy crap over at the G20 economic summit in London. But most Americans don’t think it amounted to a hill of beans.

According to Rasmussen Reports:

Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans say the U.S. economy will be helped more by the decisions of U.S. business leaders to grow their own businesses than by the actions of world leaders on behalf of the global economy.

Thirty percent (30%) say decisions made by world leaders to help the global economy will benefit the U.S. economy more. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

In an IHateTheMedia.com survey, 100% of tinhorn dictators said they believe capitalism is overrated.

Source: Rasmussen Reports

Most members of Congress are corrupt. But we like them more than we used to.

We have a real estate developer friend. He said he knows his construction supervisor is stealing from him, but said, “At least he’s not greedy about it.” Must be the same principal working here.

Rasmussen Reports reports:

“Twenty-one percent (21%) of U.S. voters now think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, its highest ratings in over a year, but nearly twice as many (41%) also think most members of Congress are corrupt.”

Source: Rasmussen Reports

32% of younger Americans get their news from satirical sources. No joke.

More and more Americans are getting their news from satirical sources. This is the best news we’ve ever heard.

Here’s how Rasumussen Reports reports their report:

Nearly one-third of Americans under the age of 40 say satirical news-oriented television programs like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are taking the place of traditional news outlets.

Thirty-two percent (32%) of adults ages 30-39 believe this to be true, while 42% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty percent (30%) of those ages 18-29 say programs like the two Comedy Central shows that feature news reports with a comic twist are replacing traditional news outlets, but 35% disagree and another 35% are not sure.

The only problem these days is trying to figure out if you’re watching news that’s news, news that’s satire, satire that’s news, or satire that’s satire.

It’s a complex world we live in.

Source: Rasmussen Reports via Media Bistro

Pelosi’s approval rating going down in flames. Oh, the humanity.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s popularity is tracing the trajectory of the Hindenburg.

According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, 60% of likely voters now view her unfavorably. And that’s the good news. The bad news for Queen Nancy is that 42% give her a “very unfavorable” rating. The trend is not her friend, either. Her favorability score has plummeted 7% in just two weeks.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t fare much better. 45% give Reid thumbs down, but only 23% approve of his performance.

According to Rasmussen’s analysis, “Congress is feeling voter anger over executive bonuses paid by AIG after it received a massive taxpayer bailout.”

But wait. It’s not just congressional Democrats who are polling poorly. Two-thirds of Americans think President Obama is likely to hike income taxes on people earning less than $250,000 a year.

We did our own poll. 67% said Pelosi is full of crap. 54% said she should cut down on the botox. 39% said, “Nancy Who?”

Source: Rasmussen Reports via NewsMax<.cite>

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