posted November 18, 2013 10:35 PM            

The question is: Why did it take 5 years for the rest of America to come to the understanding of Barack Hussein O'Bomber's dishonesty and untrustworthiness that rational people always understood?

‘Untrustworthy and dishonest’: Obama's popularity hits all time low
November 13, 2013 09:44

US President Barack Obama's popularity has hit an all-time low, with a majority of Americans now saying he is dishonest, untrustworthy and not competent to govern, according to a new national poll.

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute was conducted amongst 2,545 registered voters nationwide between November 6-11, with a margin of error of plus-minus 1.9 percentage points.

Overall, only 39 percent of Americans now approve of the job President Obama is doing, his lowest approval rating ever registered by the respected Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Fifty-four percent, meanwhile, disapprove of his performance.

Voters in every age and income bracket view his performance negatively, with senior citizens giving him a particularly low 36 percent approval mark.

The biggest group to abandon the presidential ship was women voters, with his overall approval rating dropping to 40 percent. Fifty-one percent, on the other hand, disapprove of his performance.

Also for the first time, only 44 percent of Americans now view Obama as trustworthy and honest, while 52 percent say he’s not; the first time a majority of Americans have doubted his credibility. He also slumped on efficacy marks, with 53 percent of Americans now saying his administration is not competently running the government, while 43 percent retain faith in his ability to govern.

President Obama's lowest score before the polling results were released on Tuesday was a 55 - 41 percent disapproval in an October 2011 survey.

"Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Malloy said Obama has naturally gone through the cycle of any new president, where the “honeymoon period” saw his approval ratings hover in the high 50s, only to eventually drop to the “respectable, though not overwhelming, 40s.”

"President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to the level of former President George W. Bush at the same period of his Presidency," Malloy added.

Bush's level off approval dropped to 39 percent in 2005, although by 2008 he would hit the lowest approval rate in modern history: 28 percent. Only President Harry Truman, mired in the Korean War and battling back inflation, scored lower with a mere 22 percent of voters approving his performance in 1952.

A primary reason for the slump is disaffection with Obama’s broken promise that voters could keep the health care plans they already had under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

American voters are divided 46 - 47 percent on whether Obama "knowingly deceived" the public when saying people would be able to keep their plans.

A majority of Americans remain opposed to “Obamacare” - 55-39 percent. Only 19 percent of Americans believe the program will increase the quality of care they and their families will receive, while 43 percent say it will get worse.

The president continues to score high marks among Democrat African American voters, who approve of his performance 79 percent and 75 percent respectively.

The one issue Obama receives a passing grade on among a majority of American is his handling of terrorism, which garnered a 52-42 percent approval rating.

posted November 18, 2013 11:40 PM            

That the public, especially as representedby polls of small portions of the population, is fickle? That approval depends on their momentary emotions?

posted November 19, 2013 09:16 AM            

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posted November 19, 2013 08:38 PM            

By David Lauter

November 19, 2013, 9:14 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The latest polling on President Obama and his signature healthcare reform law provides a raft of bad news for the White House and Democrats, but a strong cautionary note for Republicans as well: The public disapproves of what Obama has done, but doesn’t support the GOP’s alternative.

First the bad news for Obama: The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows the public by 55%-42% disapproves of his performance in office. By 63%-33%, Americans disapprove of his handling of the health law.

Perhaps even more ominously for the president, by 52%-46%, the public now has an unfavorable view of Obama, himself. In the past, even when the public has soured on Obama’s performance in office, a majority has liked him personally. Now, however, by 51%-47% those surveyed say Obama does not “understand the problems of people like you” and by 50%-47%, they do not see him as “honest and trustworthy.”

Across the board, those ratings – and others equally troubling for the White House -- have fallen in the last few weeks as Obama and his aides have struggled with the launch of the healthcare law.

But the counterpoint comes from a newly released National Journal Congressional Connection survey which, like the Post/ABC poll, was taken Thursday through Sunday.

The National Journal poll shows that despite all the problems of the healthcare rollout, fewer than four in 10 Americans support repeal of the law. Even more strikingly, the percentage backing repeal has not grown by a statistically significant amount since the summer.

Repeal has been the steady, repeated demand of congressional Republicans, and the poll shows ample reasons why: Among self-identified Republicans, nearly three out of four respondents supported repeal. But among self-identified independents, a group that is otherwise quite skeptical of the law, only four in 10 back repeal. Democrats overwhelmingly oppose that idea.

Taken together, the two polls reaffirm a key point about the electorate that both parties tend to forget, to their detriment: A large bloc of Americans takes a relatively non-ideological, pragmatic approach to politics and government. They like to see accomplishments, they judge politicians by a relatively straightforward standard of results and they mistrust sudden shifts of course in either direction. That, of course, puts those Americans at odds with the more ideologically oriented voters who form the bedrock supporters of both parties.

For the healthcare law, the poll results suggest the issue will weigh down Obama and Democrats in general so long as the public sees the law as failing to work. But the reverse may also prove true: If the White House can get the law’s problems fixed, they have a chance to recover, so long as Republicans stick strictly to a message of repeal, which their core supporters insist on, but which the wider public rejects.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-polls-warning-republicans-democrats-20131119,0,5355023.story#axzz2l94HsF3W

posted November 19, 2013 11:08 PM            

An ABC News / Washington Post poll shows voters would choose Republican candidate Mitt Romney over President Obama, 49-45 percent, if they could have a mulligan on the 2012 election.

Obama reached a new low in the ABC poll, with a 42 percent approval rating and 55 percent disapproval, and 57 percent of Americans oppose Obamacare, which host George Stephanopoulos called “brutal numbers for the White House.” Only 46 percent see Obama as a strong leader, and just 47 percent view him as trustworthy.

Full transcript:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Our new ABC News/ Washington Post poll, which shows President Obama with the lowest support of his presidency. Those troubles with Obamacare hitting hard across the board. Seven out of ten Americans now think the country’s on the wrong track, and this comes amid new revelations that the administration was warned about the problems in the website as early as March. ABC’s Jon Karl is at the White House, and Jon, these are brutal numbers for the White House.

JONATHAN KARL: They sure are, George. The lowest job approval rating we have ever seen in the ABC News / Washington Post poll. Only 42 percent approving of the president’s job performance, 55 percent disapproving, and on the health care law, a record-high 57 percent say they oppose the law. Only 40 percent supporting it. George, look at this number. We asked voters if they could have a mulligan on the 2012 presidential election, who would they vote for. A plurality now say they would vote for Romney over Obama. But of course, that is one thing that President Obama does not have to worry about.

STEPHANOPOULOS: What a difference a year makes. Real signs that there were some red flashing lights back in March about the rollout of the website.

posted November 20, 2013 11:05 PM            

The only way leftists ever get elected in America is that they lie about their positions and intentions.

posted November 21, 2013 03:06 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
You really should run for office, jwhop. I have a soapbox you can borrow. Then you can talk down to people in Real Life.

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He only talks down to people below him

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posted November 21, 2013 05:50 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
"Yeah, we need a few more embarrassments out of Florida"...acoustic

I agree. Happily, you're in LeftistLand California. Thanks!

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