BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
President Barack Obama is now officially a boat anchor hanging around the necks of Democrats running for public office from east to west; from north to south and, if there is another dimension – like The Cloud – he’s a hindrance there, too.
A bunch of polls have been released this week, all of which show that, as of now, a basic distrust of the President’s abilities are baked into the American consciousness. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
The Gallup organization polls every day asking respondents a number of questions including how they think the President – in this case Barack Obama – is doing. This is known as Presidential Job Performance.
Gallup does this on a three-day rolling basis.
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I know you understand this, but for the other person who doesn’t, here’s a quick explanation: A three-day roll Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
While we have been totally focused, for the past two months, on the amount of time it takes a webpage to load on healthcare.gov, the rest of the globe appears to be continuing to spin.
And it appears to be spinning away from us.
After more than a decade of what is known as kinetic action in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Americans are tired of being the alpha dog in the global pack. According to a poll released by the Pew organization, the public thinks that the nation does too much to solve world problems, and increasing percentages want the U.S. to “mind its own business internationally” and pay more attention to problems here at home. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
There is almost no good news for President Barack Obama in the CNN/ORC poll that was released earlier this week.
As the President giggled and played rock, paper, scissors with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-8 Conference in Ireland, the bloom appears to have begun to come off the Obaman Rose as far as the American people are concerned.
This is one poll taken last week (Tuesday through Thursday) so it might not signal a trend, but it certainly won’t generate confidence in the West Wing. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
The political geniuses around President Barack Obama have a problem: they do not – DO NOT – want this election to be a referendum on the President.
And, for good reason. According to the three-day Gallup tracking poll, Obama’s job approval is back down to 41 percent. Two months ago his approval bottomed at 38 percent, but he has not been at 50 percent job approval since May.
Gallup goes on to compare Obama’s dismal performance rating with his predecessors. In December of their third year in office here’s where they were:
— Eisenhower (1955) 75%
— Nixon (1971) 50%
— Carter (1979) 53%
— Reagan (1983) 54%
— HW Bush (1991) 51%
— Clinton (1995) 51%
— W Bush (2003) 58%
No elected President in the past half-century has entered his re-election year underwater in approval. Let’s look at how the Obama campaign has chosen to shore up these numbers. Continue reading