The media seems to be trumpeting Obama's approval rating of 63% lately. Here is the funny thing about that: the average rating for the six prior presidents at the 1 month mark was 62%. Congratulations, you barely beat the average. Jimmy Carter was the only one higher than Obama at 71%. And we all know how his presidency turned out.
The more interesting news is that Obama has doubled his DISapproval rating from 12% at inauguration to 24% one month into his presidency. That is worse that all other presidents except Bill Clinton and far above the average of 16%.
GWB and Obama are pretty much tied, with George barely winning the contest, only because he had more "no opinion" pollees.
Here is a recommendation to Obama: stop taking my money and giving it to people who don't pay taxes. Instead of spending (wasting?) nearly $1 trillion, give us a 6 month tax holiday and cut anything non-essential by the federal government. The states can hand it for 6 months.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/116026/Assessing-Obama-Job-Approval-One-Month-Mark.aspx
http://www.lp.org/blogs/donny-ferguson/polls-obama-approval-rate-average-disapproval-rate-high
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Obama was screwed from the get-go. Everyone thought that the second he took over as Prez the war was going to end, the economy was going to skyrocket and you would get a complimentary BJ with your tax refund. Shockingly, the world doesn't work that way and it takes more than a month to do anything. He was set up for failure.
I have heard it at all my union client meetings. They wanted to delay all their decision-making until March because "It will be a new world after Obama is in office." I kid you not, that has been said on more than one occasion. Who can live up to that?
He's history's greatest monster!
Post a Comment