Obama’s approval rating falls to 39%
Press TV – December 15, 2010
US President Barack Obama’s popularity has dropped by three percentage points in the past two weeks, now standing at 39 percent, according to results of a new poll.
A Zogby Interactive poll released on Tuesday indicates that Obama’s approval rating equals a low since he took office at 39 percent, while 63 percent of respondents think the US president is a weak leader compared to only 19 percent who regard him as a strong leader.
The latest poll comes after Obama agreed earlier in December to keep all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another two years in a bid to resolve differences with Republicans in Congress.
“It was a bad week for Obama’s relationship with his party’s base, which sees him giving in too easily to the Republicans,” John Zogby said in a statement.
According to the poll, 68 percent of those surveyed also believe that America is heading in the wrong direction.
The figures come as there are widespread assumptions that a string of government failures, including the failure to rein in the economic crisis in the US, the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the high unemployment rate in the country have largely contributed to the slippage in Obama’s popularity rate.
Against a backdrop of the worst recession since the Great Depression, which has driven many Americans out of workplace, the latest figures published recently by the US Federal Reserve show that the unemployment rate will remain at around 9.5 percent this year and 8.9 percent in 2011.
Obama’s healthcare reforms have also struck a snag as a federal court has ruled that a key part of the new bill is unconstitutional.
Obama’s average approval rating has declined in each quarter since he took office last year.
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Obamarama peejamma ding dong diddly squat.
It’s all circus, theater…bullshit.
Homo Vishnu Amerikanus, “bah bah bah”.
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Amazing it only dropped 3 points. The Fraud cut a deal with Republicans. He offered you the worst of both worlds: tax cuts and more pork. He is an unmitigated disaster. He has not done one thing for the left, liberals, Democrats, ordinary people – however you want to describe anyone not part of the military-financial junta. Yet 39% still approve.
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Do you know what “titular” means GStreet?
“He has not done one thing for the left, liberals, Democrats, ordinary…”~G
“He” has nothing to do with it but mouth his script. Obama is a puppet, like all the visible members of “government”.
Pay no attention to personalities, a structural analysis is what is needed to discern the reality of our situation.
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You know somehow “we told you so”, just doesn’t QUITE say it.
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BTW Aletho,
You commented on a previous thread that you had never posted the Protocols.
Have you ever read them?
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I don’t see it as useful to discuss the protocals here. I think that my point stands on its own in any case.
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I didn’t ask for a discussion. I asked if you had ever read them.
By “here” do you mean your site in toto, or this particular thread?
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Both.
As a courtesy to other readers, discussion should remain on topic.
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