Slip Sliding Away
Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen, writing at the Wall Street Journal, look at Obama’s poll numbers and at the attitudes of Americans toward their government. The data should be giving pause to Obama and the Democrats in general.
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.
Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date.
There is a lot more, go read the whole thing. People are not liking what they see coming out as “change” from Obama and the Democrats. They especially do not like the “stimulus” plan or Obama’s efforts toward reviving the economy.
After reading the article, I suspect that what is coming into play here is a dislike for double-speak. I can’t prove that, it’s just a hunch. Obama’s double-speak is so blatant, so in the face of Americans that it has to be a factor in the rapid erosion of his poll numbers. Coupled with his apparent indifference to the economy while trying to rapidly advance his redistributionist “vision” for America, I suspect Obama may out-Carter Carter in the rapid opinion decline department.
By Charles, March 13, 2009 @ 8:03 am
“The higher they fly the harder they fall” – or something like that. I think we can expect a great big SPLAT! one day.
Let’s just hope that Obama and crew don’t take out too many Americans and allies when they finally do fall.