The recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
surely doesn’t bode well for the Obama administration, which promised
hope and change on a platter back in 2008. Seventy-one percent of
Americans feels that the country is going in the wrong direction.
President Obama’s job approval has dropped to 40 percent–and only 42 percent approve of how he’s handling the economy. Approval on foreign policy, an area where this administration polled somewhat strongly, fell to 36 percent among Americans.
Regarding the economy, Carol Lee of the Wall Street Journal said earlier this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “there’s a total disconnect” between reality and rhetoric on Obama’s economic agenda:
See video here: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2014/08/06/president-obamas-new-poll-numbers-eerily-similar-to-bushs-before-2006-wipeout-n1875744
President Obama’s job approval has dropped to 40 percent–and only 42 percent approve of how he’s handling the economy. Approval on foreign policy, an area where this administration polled somewhat strongly, fell to 36 percent among Americans.
Regarding the economy, Carol Lee of the Wall Street Journal said earlier this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “there’s a total disconnect” between reality and rhetoric on Obama’s economic agenda:
See video here: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2014/08/06/president-obamas-new-poll-numbers-eerily-similar-to-bushs-before-2006-wipeout-n1875744
CAROL LEE, WSJ: If you look at what the president is saying, his messages publicly, there's a total disconnect between, clearly, what the American public feels and what he is saying is going on in the economy. On Friday he came out and said things are getting better. And clearly, people don't feel that way. The president was campaigning -- raising money in California -- a few weeks ago and he was saying people feel better than they did five years ago. And some of the folks who were interviewed, who participated in this poll explicitly said that they don't feel better than they did five years ago, and so I think what the White House has to contend with is how you match the president's rhetoric and how he's approaching the public on this issue with more what you're seeing in this poll, which is that people are not feeling good about the future -- the 79% of people who think their kids' future is not going to be better than their own.But where there is a connection shouldn't make any supporter of the president hopeful as the 2014 midterms approach since these numbers are eerily similar to Bush's in 2006 (via Roll Call/ Stu Rothenberg):
The new survey, conducted July 30-August 3, showed Obama’s approval at 40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving of his performance.
Since Bush’s late July 2006 job ratings stood at 39 percent approve/56 percent disapprove, the new Obama numbers bear an even more uncomfortably close resemblance to Bush’s.
As I noted in the column, foreign policy has become a significant problem for the president — and therefore for his party — in the midterms.
The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found Obama’s job performance on foreign policy as a weak 36 percent approve/60 percent disapprove — by far his worst numbers in that area.
While Congress — and Republicans in Congress — remain unpopular, the bad news for the president in the survey continues to raise the possibility the midterms will be more “about” President Obama than about anyone or anything else.
Good lord we can only hope that the independent voters come to their senses! I hope the American Jews also come to their senses as well. It baffles me how these people can support Obama and the Democrats after the Democrats wipe their asses daily on Israel.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't think we will get much help from Hispanics and Blacks. I know, I know they are not all bad, but they vote bad, and they vote as a unified group. If whites voted 95% for Republicans, then the Democrats would be locked out forever.
The Democrats KNOW that blacks vote the same way each time, and no matter how bad things get, they can count on their votes. You can't reason with a black; ask them how black people have faired under Obama...and they will STILL support him!
For that reason, I have written in the past to write the black vote off! They BELONG to the Democrats. Also, that is why I wrote that they should not be allowed to vote: they kill the process. They don't really have any skin in the game other than what one group can offer them above another group. They will NEVER change! They don't care about freedom; they care about what the government can give them.
As a group they have reached the apex of their economic development! When the blue collar jobs left, that hurt blacks (and poor whites). We need to bring manufacturing jobs back to America.
Just today a major black leader on the Congressional Black Caucus opined the fact that many good jobs are being taken by the illegal Hispanics (and that is true.) Why don’t blacks INSIST that Obama keep these illegals OUT of America? Surely they must realize the EBT will run out soon! We can’t take on the entire world. They need to listen to people like Allen West.