CNN POLL: After 6 Months, More View Obama Presidency a 'Failure' Than Bush...

[Mistermj]

[URL="http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/08/06/after-6-months-more-view-obamas-presidency-as-a-failure-than-bushs/"]After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's
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[/URL]A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?"
Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a "failure," while 51% consider it a "success" and 11% say it's still "too soon to tell."
An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a "success" while only 32% considered it a "failure."



http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time...ew-obamas-presidency-as-a-failure-than-bushs/

 

[Mistermj]

"Respice post te! Hominem te memento!" [Peter Wehner]

Over at the outstanding American Enterprise Institute blog, Karlyn Bowman reports that among the "millennial generation" (18- to 29-year-olds), President Obama's job approval rating has, according to the latest Gallup poll, fallen from 75 percent in January to 58 percent today — a staggering 17-percentage-point drop. Among those 65 and older, Obama's support has dropped by 12 points, from 61 percent in January to 49 percent today.

This is significant for several reasons. First, the huge numbers Obama amassed among young voters in November — he carried the millennial cohort by a margin of 66 percent to 32 percent — were among the most important signs of the GOP's difficulties. If young voters lock in on a particular party early on, they often form a (voting) habit that is difficult to undo. If Obama had maintained anything like the initial support he had among young voters, it would have made the GOP's challenge far more difficult. For the president to have lost so much support among young voters, so quickly, has to be unsettling to the White House and the Democratic party more broadly.

As for Obama's double-digit loss of support among the elderly, that, too, is problematic, since the elderly are the most consistently reliable cohort when it comes to voting. Dropping below 50 percent among the elderly is a bad sign for Obama — and for Democrats running in 2009 and 2010, it is an alarming one. This negative trend among the elderly is largely attributable, I suspect, to Obama's efforts to overhaul health care.

During the past six weeks, the president's numbers have dropped in almost every category, and in some instances by a significant margin. For his legions of supporters, including much of the political class, it wasn't supposed to be like this. Obama's travails call to mind the counsel of the servant who supposedly greeted the returning, conquering Roman general, revered by the masses, with the words, "Respice post te! Hominem te memento!" ("Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man!").

Barack Obama is but a man — and one with a fair amount of difficulties accruing.
The Corner on National Review Online (6 August 2009)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/

 

[barman]

You should be a bit more careful when posting a topic here and then jumping right across the street to post same topic over there using your more colorful persona.

It causes the fake nose and glasses to slip below the fake mustache for just a moment and we all giggle.

 

[SmallDaddy]

"After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's"


Guarantee you that wont be the case after his 8 years are up

The recession #44 received is a lot worse than the one #43 (aka Vacationer in Chief) received. So people turned on him a bit--which was expected

But the only ones who think he is an abject failure are the ones who didnt even give him a shot from day one

 

[Mistermj]

You should be a bit more careful when posting a topic here and then jumping right across the street to post same topic over there using your more colorful persona.

It causes the fake nose and glasses to slip below the fake mustache for just a moment and we all giggle.

There you go with that baseless lie again...

When libs are losing the battle...out come the lies and attacks.

Typical...but for a mod here...plain stupid.

 

[Georgiaboy]

You should be a bit more careful when posting a topic here and then jumping right across the street to post same topic over there using your more colorful persona.

It causes the fake nose and glasses to slip below the fake mustache for just a moment and we all giggle.

proof?

 

[D2bets]

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time...ew-obamas-presidency-as-a-failure-than-bushs/After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's
Posted by Tom Bevan | Email This | Permalink | Email Author

A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?"
Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a "failure," while 51% consider it a "success" and 11% say it's still "too soon to tell."
An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a "success" while only 32% considered it a "failure."



http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time...ew-obamas-presidency-as-a-failure-than-bushs/

As of August 2001? LOL. No shit. He hadn't really taken office yet, it was all a big vacation. Do you suppose the circumstances are a bit different between Jan to Aug 2009 than they were in Jan to Aug 2001? Just a little bit of a difference maybe?

 

[Mistermj]

As of August 2001? LOL. No shit. He hadn't really taken office yet, it was all a big vacation. Do you suppose the circumstances are a bit different between Jan to Aug 2009 than they were in Jan to Aug 2001? Just a little bit of a difference maybe?

Once again...we seem to have a dyslexic liberal...jesus.

After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's

It's comparing the same time period.

I thought the Bush 2000 election was stolen and divisive?

Obama, supposedly the uniter, is still below his poll numbers at the 6 month mark?

Ya dig?

 

[D2bets]

Once again...we seem to have a dyslexic liberal...jesus.

After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's

It's comparing the same time period.

I thought the Bush 2000 election was stolen and divisive?

Obama, supposedly the uniter, is still below his poll numbers at the 6 month mark?

Ya dig?

January 2001 we had peace and prosperity. January 2009 not so much. Ya dig?

 

[festeringZit]

Maybe we can all admit they both are fucking idiots?

 

[barman]

proof?

To paraphrase the runner-up in the RxPoliticoPub's 2009 Kook of the Year voting,

"It could very well be true. And until it can be "proven" otherwise, the American people will continue to ask questions."

:grandmais

 

[barman]

Once again...we seem to have a dyslexic liberal...jesus.

Jesus was a dyslexic liberal??