Why does everyone hate Barack Obama?
As being reported by the Washington Times today.
Since Gallup records began there has only been one president who was more unpopular at the 100 day mark than Barack Obama. Wanna guess who was more unpopular that BO?
I am guessing the children are all saying President Bush had to be more unpopular, well not surprisingly, they are wrong. The only president more unpopular at the 100 day mark was Bill Clinton.
According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.
Presidents popularity at 100 days.
- Ronald Reagan (67%)
- Jimmy Carter (63%)
- George W. Bush (61%)
- Richard Nixon (61%)
- George H.W. Bush (58%)
- Barack Obama (56%)
- Bill Clinton (55%)
Has anyone seen anything in the MSM that point’s out that George W. Bush was more popular that BO at this point?
Why does everyone hate Barack Obama so much? Is it because they have massive voter regret which they are willing to express in a secret poll but less willing to show in public?
“Yeah! Change I can believe In”
(oh crap – what have I done)
H/T: Washington Times Barack’s in the basement
Popularity: 8% [?]
Review this site
My friend, I believe you speak blasphemy at this.
Obviously your numbers have been skewed by fact, and fail to project the proper message, as specified by the administration.
There is simply no rational explanation for the accuracy of your numbers, possibly excepting that of hard evidence, which we all know is no longer admissible in any public forum.
No, the numbers are most certainly not skewed. In fact, the poll shows 56% to be his MAXIMUM possible approval rating, going to a minimum of 43%.
Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
And heres the Gallup poll, for recent coverage.
Presidential Approval Ratings — Barack Obama
OK, where’s the spell check?! Reagon? Was that professor Venkman’s brainy sidekick?
Kidding aside. What I will give Obama is that he is facing far more challenges than any of the others on the list. Where my problem is that he’s trying to radically change pretty much everything we’ve been doing over the last 20-50 years. His administration is taking advantage of a short-term crisis to effect long-term deviation from what made our country great. I think it shows.
Actually radically changing the path of the last 100 years isn’t so bad… he’s just changing it in the WRONG DIRECTION.
I have an excuse.
Um, you have a niece named Reagan – no you don’t.
I have a niece named Maggie as well.
[...] confirmed the first death in the US of Swine Flu cannot be overlooked. Why wouldn’t his slipping poll ratings be the first thing on his mind? Why should the Prez be concerned that the first death is not even [...]
No offense, but where are you getting your numbers from? Barack Obama’s current Gallup approval rating is 63% and it’s never been lower than 59% since he became President.
As stated in the article, The data came from Gallup via the Washington Times.
Personal approval rating, as in “I like him personally” is polled differently from Policy approval. The above indicates approval of his policy initiatives and/or job performance, not his clothes, personality, smile, style or hipness. One of the reasons he keeps going on the campaign trail is because his “on the job approval ratings” usually track higher when he gives a Town Hall or two. The irony of this is not lost on many of us – maybe if he spent more time studying policies that have worked versus just shoving every left wing agenda item he can get his mitts on down our throats, his job ratings would rise. But since he’s never had to rely on performance ratings before, he’s probably not familiar with these kind of standards. Obama will do better in the long run if he makes a giant leap to the center, where most of the US lives.
Gallup’s week-by-week Obama JOB approval ratings:
At 100 Days, Obama Approval Broad as Well as Deep
He’s doing just fine crafting effective policy and taking time to make his case to the country.
That Gallup page doesn’t indicate what their demographic for the poll was, which makes it invalid.
The only kind of poll that matters is a poll of “voters” and “likely voters”, and they have to be polled from a wide demographic within that group. This one does not specify the details of the poll, and therefore is about as valuable as toilet paper.
Amendment:
From their page… now let’s look at this.
Voters? Nope. Just “national adults”, which also indicates that they might not even be citizens. But then to the democrats that doesn’t matter. You don’t have to even be here legally to vote, so why bother narrowing it down to “citizens” or “voters”.
And that last line says it all… “We know these numbers are bunk.”
I only look at Zogby (sometimes) an Rasmussen for reliable polling. And even then one has to look closely at the parameters.
A) Your argument that only likely voters matter is idiotic, given that the next presidential election is 3 1/2 years away, unless you expect polling firms to ask each person they contact “How likely are you to vote in the upcoming 2012 presidential election?”
B) I used Gallup because it was the polling house cited in the post above
How interesting – a Liberal who only likes a poll when it tells him what he wants to hear vs. reality – no wonder you voted for the lying crap bag in Chief.
Sorry, Mom, you’re the one who thought right up until Nov. 4 that Obama wasn’t going to win the election. I’m happy to listen to reliable polls, of which Gallup is one.
Um ATG, I still don’t believe he won the election. I prefer the term stole – far more appropriate.
It’s a tit for tat kind of thing, right – as in, you believe the Republicans stole the 2000 election so you did, in fact, steal the 2008. Children, all of you. Who wouldn’t trust a party that would steal an election because it refused to accept factual information? You guys get more and more ridiculous everyday. You’re a circus sideshow. Aren’t you hoarse from humming LALALALALALALALALA every time a fact is presented?
MOM, are you saying that multiple registrations of voters by ACORN, voters by visitors to states who allowed early voting, Disney characters, dead people, pets, illegal (and legal) non-citizens, and small children shouldn’t be allowed to vote?
Isn’t that rather elitist of you? I mean… it’s pure racism to not allow Donald Duck to vote…
Okay, Mom, why don’t you present the “facts” on how many votes ACORN stole in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and New Mexico? Give me actual numbers (or reasonable estimates) of votes that were stolen, relative to the margins of victory in those states, then add one more state in there for good measure (because even flipping those isn’t sufficient to give McCain the win from last year’s election).
I know it’s comforting to think that reason for the electoral landslide was unprecedented voter fraud across 7 different states, but you and I both know that’s not the case – McCain/Palin lost the election, and handily.
You’re not presenting facts, you’re screaming like a delusional child because you know that you can’t make a point by reasoning like an adult. That’s fine, it’s your blog, just don’t accuse me of being the one who is deaf to reality.
ATG:
A) It is not idiotic. It is how anyone in politics judges anything. Non-voters are completely irrelevant in the political scene regardless of where in the cycle you are. And VOTERS opinions of our President will affect the 2010 elections, which are only about 18 months away.
B) Obviously you are here just to push talking points and not know what the data means and what it represents.
You don’t happen to work for CNN, The Boston Globe, or MSNBC do you?
Patriot – He has t believe non-voters count, otherwise, BO would not be President. Look how many “non-voters” voted for him. Heck, to qualify as a non-voter, they could be polling the Taliban in Afghanistan & Pakistan. After all, they’re calling “cell phone numbers”, right? The more they hijack the news with manipulated polls propping up their failing and overwhelmingly unpopular policies, the better the future looks for us.
Our challenge is to get former voters back into the polls by giving them what they want – true (red, white and) blue, Founding Fathers conservatism. ATG probably went to public school so he would have no reference point with which to understand what that means. He’ll just come back with another poll showing how popular the Prez’s iPod picks are.
I went to public school (heck, it was 22 years ago tho!) but came to realize that there was a lot of bias there.
I have since re-educated myself through reading and understanding historical documents and writings, including the Constitution of the United States (ATG I assume is familiar with what it is, even if he doesn’t truly understand it).
But that said, yes… we need people who understand and will bring to the voting booth the founding principles, a Constitutional understanding of how this great republic operates.
We need those people on both sides of that process. Both voting and running for office.
Re: ACORN Voter Fraud
(Let the humming commence)
Acorn was formed in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado. Rathke was a member of the SDS, the mother group for The Weathermen.
ACORN has had a long record of election rigging.
- 1986, 12 ACORN Members were convicted of Voter Fraud.
- 2004, Volunteers pleaded guilty of filling out voter registration card with names of dead people.
- 2005, Paid worker found guilty of voter fraud. Coordinating 30 volunteers to fill out bogus registration cards.
- 2006, Investigators find at least 1495 bogus cards in one St. Louis prescient. All of the cards were submitted by ACORN.
- 2007, 4 Employees indicted followed later in the year by another 8 employees. All indicted on elector fraud related charges.
2008 (The Big Game)….
Many of the following are part of on-going investigations.
North Carolina – State board of electors find 100’s of registration forms with the same name and details. These forms were resubmitted many times over by ACORN.
Ohio – Man is interviewed who said he alone registered to vote 72 times.
Nevada – Investigators raid the ACORN HQ. Bogus registration cards included the starting line up of the Dallas Cowboys.
Indiana – Initially found 2000 bogus registration cards. Just before the registration deadline, ACORN delivered 5000 forms. Election officials stopped processing them after the first 2100 were found to be bogus. This was just one county.
Connecticut – Investigating a complaint in Bridgeport, Officials found a 7 year had registered to vote (submitted by ACORN). ACORN had submitted 8000 forms in Bridgeport alone.
Missouri – Election board officials had found at least 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. ACORN stated that some of their applications were bogus.
Pennsylvania – Investigating and verifying all of the ACORN submitted forms. Over 57000 forms have been found to be false so far.
Wisconsin – ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Further, ACORN workers are involved in 49 voter fraud cases.
Florida – Investigations are revealing that at least 30000 felons were registered to vote.
Texas – 1/3 of ACORN registrations have been found to be invalid so far.
Michigan – Investigating complaints of voter fraud. The clerk is quoted “Voter fraud seem to be widespread”.
New Mexico – One county’s investigation has uncovered 1100 bogus ACORN submitted forms.
There are many many more…..
What is most concerning is
- ACORN has received federal funds and will get more under BO. (Pay Back?)
- BO has said that ACORN are going to help with the 2010 Census. Of course he wants them to ‘help’. As stated in another thread, ACORN may have already completed the census forms.
More Reading…
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-acorn-voter-fraud/
Okay, you fulfilled half of my request – the other was to compare the charges against the margins of victory.
Conclusion: even if actual voter fraud occurred on the scale of fraudulent registrations (which, as anybody who bothers to actually read about the ACORN controversy from somewhere other than wingnut.blogspot.com, knows essentially can’t happen), McCain/Palin lost the election.
Well, I never meant to imply that voter fraud alone accounted for the Obama win – the media hijacking helped – just most of it. I used to work for the Republicans in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, OH) and know many people still involved, including a higher up at the Cuy. Cty. Board of Elections. In email exchanges with him last September to November, he communicated to me that the number of voter reg’s coming in simply did not match census levels for Cuyahoga County. People have been leaving for four years now due to local economic downturn and unless they all moved back and brought ten friends, the numbers don’t add up. I may be making a leap here, but look at the electoral map and the concentrations of blue and the demographics of those areas, the urbanization, the economy – they’re are many similarities to Cleveland. Yet, when I visit, it’s McCain country. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
Look, I know the Republicans did not put forward their best candidate – I begrudgingly came to the table after the Palin announcement. But this was not a landslide. The Dems figured out how to manipulate the electoral votes, how to manipulate the voters, how to create confusion and chaos regarding voter registrations – they probably benefitted greatly that the 2000 census was so long ago because the numbers start to get fuzzy. It was literally a “Perfect Storm”.
And well done for you – you won. But why? At what cost? If you figure out how to defraud the system and get away with it (maybe) what’s the grand scheme, what’s the motive? Surely you won’t argue this is some sort of “Save the Country” campaign. This is all about power for power’s sake – increasing government, making the people dependent on the government because that is the only way to stay in power. Oh, and revenge for 2000 – that fairy tale. It’s not so much disturbing to me that you cheated and won but that you were willing to do anything to win, even cheat.
This is why I will never be a Liberal or a Democrat – winning isn’t everything. I don’t want to win if I have to cheat. And I’ll happily be a member of the minority party for the rest of my life if it means being right and protecting why and how this nation was founded. There is not much more despicable than a cheater – and they always get found out in the end.
But I’ll work on getting those numbers for you. It’s Family Night so it’ll have to wait.
What’s more desperate than a cheater? Someone who insists that losing is proof that their opponents cheated.
Errr….. ACORN do cheat. BO did get elected with the help of fraud perpetrated by ACORN.
ACORN got caught cheating and are being investigated in at least 14 states.
See list here:
Despite being presented the facts time after again you will not admit the possibility that BO or his buddies did anything wrong.
I going to have start calling you Boxer.
“Napoleon is always right”
I heartily disagree. The cheater is always worse.
Oh, and your side has been claiming fraud since November 2000 – which we now definitively know is not true. It will take awhile to prove or disprove my theory but as Wrench pointed out, the process has begun. So I suppose we’re even in this category? But as I stated, it’s all about motive. Our side wants to preserve and protect the union, your side wants to remake it. Get your own country to remake – I hear the UK will be available for sale cheap any day now.
I never argued with the fact that there were a number of falsified registrations submitted through ACORN. Wrench, I’m going to start calling you “illiterate” because of your inability to read and grasp my basic point, which is that the Republican Party lost the 2008 election, even without falsified registrations (which, I remind, do not directly translate into falsified votes).
Now, this argument may be about 2000 for you, but for me that election is ancient history (I was more upset that the country legitimately re-elected the guy in 2004), but given that you seem to be obsessed with bringing it up repeatedly, Mom, I would amend your statement to say that we definitively know that George Bush would have won an extended Florida recount, but that this is irrelevant to the main point of contention that liberals have about that election.
The argument has never been about 2000 for me – it’s the justification the Left has used to defend it’s “unusual and unprecedented” voter registration drives.
We do know now that W won in 2000. It just took a few years for some to fund out and others still refuse to recognize this. How long will it take to know “definitively” who won 2008? The fact that we need time to figure it out indicated the process has been corrupted and manipulated. Handy that the corruption benefits the Left, no?
Closer…..
ACORN cheated and falsified registrations and votes.
If we were to remove all ACORN submitted registrations and assisted votes, would BO still have won?
More over, if the MSM had not been part of the ‘Elect BO PAC’, would BO still have won?
Not only would BO not have won, he probably would not have run. It would have been HRC.
Falsified registrations don’t equal falsified votes. I’m going to avoid getting into the MSM brawl…
Registrations and the party affiliation of those registrations are often used in “projections” which are publicized and therefore influence media coverage, and public opinion.
If you, therefore, put out a poll that shows that (hypothetical numbers here) “70% of new registrations are Democrat” and that poll is used in political discussions in the media, the sheeple will read that and say, “Heck, 70% are already going that way. My vote for the other side won’t matter” and might stay home.
It also helps to empower the corrupt partisan press (MSM) in pushing free advertising for the candidate of their choice through creative news stories, whereas the other candidate is forced to constantly defend themself by paying money for advertising that must walk a very fine line due to the unconstitutional campaign finance laws which restrict the First Amendment rights of everyone that the 2008 presidential candidate helped create.
Well said Mad.
You, Mom and the conservative majority are realizing what has happened. Many who did not vote now wished they had and many people who voted childishly now wish they had not or voted differently.
“Falsified registrations don’t equal falsified votes.”
Prove it.
Sure. First off, in order for a falsified registration to equal a falsified vote, the registration would have to be approved by the county officials. The reference to the Mickey Mouse voter registration, for example, is to a registration that was falsified but never actually accepted by county officials (see here: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article852295.ece).
Second, your identity is checked when you go to the ballot box. Even if I successfully registered as Mickey Mouse (which we know didn’t happen), that doesn’t mean I can vote as Mickey Mouse unless I have a voter ID that says so (although the law varies on this point a little bit state by state).
There you go, point proven, unless you can prove to me that Mickey Mouse did, in fact, vote in 2008.
Etc.etc.etc.
More here…
Falsified registrations become votes
Ah, hit a nerve did I? From that same article:
“Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner admits that some 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters have been flagged by her office because their names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and/or Social Security numbers don’t match other state or federal records”
Obama’s Ohio margin of victory: >260,000
“A Washington State Superior Court judge found that the state’s 2004 gubernatorial race, which Democrat Christine Gregoire won by 133 votes, had included at least 1,678 illegal votes”
Obama’s Washington margin of victory: >520,000
“The New York Daily News reported in August, 2004 on how some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, what it called a “shocking finding” because it “found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election”
“Last month, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported that some 5,000 felons who do not have the right to vote have apparently voted in recent elections in Florida”
Obama’s Florida margin of victory: >200,000
So to sum up: the number of fraudulent votes actually found to be cast is tiny relative to the number of problematic registrations states get, and was tiny relative to Obama’s margin of victory in 2008. Even if every single one of the 200,000 flagged registrations in Ohio turned into a fraudulent vote for Obama (which, again, is remarkably improbable), Obama would have won Ohio, not to mention the 7 or 8 other states that he carried that McCain would have needed to flip.
The moral of the story is: ACORN did not steal the election for Obama. Wrench and Mom, you guys can pull the “LALALALA” you accuse me of and just ignore numbers, facts, and common sense all you want, but the fact is: Obama won the 2008 election, McCain/Palin lost it, and Obama’s approval ratings demonstrate that a strong majority of the country is pleased that he is our President.
You can disagree with him and criticize him all you want, but saying that somehow he didn’t win the election or that somehow the country’s political center doesn’t lie somewhere in the 67% (based on today’s Gallup tracking poll) that support him is nothing but a comforting delusion.
You might want to be assessed for ADD.
Both Wrench and I have repeatedly stated that a – we will not know for years, possibly, whether or not ineligible voters pushed Obama over the edge and b – while a substantial boost, in our opinion, this specific fraud is not solely responsible for the fraudulent win. We have sited Media Malpractice, as well. And the Soros-backed crashing of the market. And the revenge for 2000 turn-out. And the educational system brainwashing in our public schools and higher education institutions. Add to the list voter malaise resulting in non-turnout on the more conservative side, and an ineffective campaign by the competition. So, your point is whatever works?
What I find most interesting is that in all of this, you have not definitively recognized and said that any and all voter registration fraud is an attempt to influence and/or cheat in an election and that this is wrong, under all circumstances. Again, we get a unwanted and disturbing look into the mind and value system of a Liberal. Everyday I doubt more and more whether you all are even human. Thanks for the motivation.
BTW – “Obama’s approval ratings demonstrate that a strong majority of the country is pleased that he is our President.” Incorrect – they like his clothes, not his policies.
“Incorrect – they like his clothes, not his policies.”
Incorrect – the numbers I’m referring to are job approval ratings, not personal approval ratings.
“You have not definitively recognized and said that any and all voter registration fraud is an attempt to influence and/or cheat in an election and that this is wrong, under all circumstances.”
That’s because that’s not true. A lot of voter registration fraud is an attempt to cheat the people employing you to register voters out of their money. See “Mickey Mouse.”
Voter fraud and voter disfranchisement, however, are both attempts to cheat in an election and are both wrong.
“We will not know for years, possibly, whether or not ineligible voters pushed Obama over the edge”
False, this is just an easy way of waving your arms and saying that you might still be right despite all evidence to the contrary. As pointed out in the posts above, we have good indicators of the magnitude of both registration fraud and actual voter fraud, neither of which were be anywhere close to the amount necessary to give Obama the margins of victory he experienced.
Education, market effects, ineffective Republican campaign are all irrelevant to your argument… they are just reasons that a strong majority of Americans support Obama, but I don’t care if people support Obama because they’re well-educated, think the Republicans are incompetent, or think he will handle the economy better, I’m just pointing out that it’s delusional to keep on claiming that the majority of Americans agree with you, when, clearly, they don’t.
I didn’t say the majority of Americans agree with me. I said he majority of Americans did not vote for Obama and do not like the policies he is pushing and their eventual outcomes – and they’re not all Republicans. The fact that his election might be illegitimate is beside the point, except to point out how truly awful you Lefties really are – how you will stoop to any level to get your hands on power even when evidence indicates that your ideas are not what Americans want and are disastrous to the long term success and security of the nation and all in it. If the social policies Obama and the Dems are proposing had ever worked, the UK would not be for sale.
But I don’t expect you understand any of this. As we’ve seen before, your moral compass is broken and your brain has been hijacked by the an emotional maturity level equal to a four year old – all to be expected from a Liberal who prefers someone else handle all the difficulties, never realizing that an interfering and intrusive government causes the difficulties.
“I don’t care if people support Obama because they’re well-educated” – You might want to do a little research. I don’t think you will find any correlation between well-educated and support or opposition of Obama. I believe there is no connection either way. I was referring to the way the Liberal Left has corrupted the public education system in this country – being taught incorrect history and only one ideology does not make one well educated- it is the opposite. But thank you again for the insight into your own personal ideology – do you feel better about yourself believeing that only the “smart” people voted for Obama? It’s always good to have ones assumptions about someone confirmed. You’re really an open book these days, aren’t you?
So tell the truth – you work for the admin, don’t you?
Maybe I will just never understand how you are saying things like “the majority of Americans did not vote for Obama and do not like the policies he is pushing and their eventual outcomes” when you know for a FACT that the majority of Americans DID vote for Obama, and that well more than a majority of Americans DO approve of the job he’s doing so far.
Then you go on to criticize Obama’s policies and my moral compass and hijacked brain as if doing so somehow reverses the inconvenient numbers. I kind of wish someone would make a reality show about you where you got to be a lawyer for a week, and the camera would just spend time capturing the judge’s and jury’s confused expressions as you strung random words together in no logical order as if they constituted an argument. I think it would be a hoot.
Re: education, according to Wikipedia, Obama performed best at the two extremes – the least educated (no high school degree) and the most educated (postgraduate degree) – where he substantially outperformed his overall margin of victory over McCain. I’ll say “the most educated people voted Obama,” you’ll say “the least educated people voted Obama” so let’s just agree to disagree on this point.
And I don’t work for the administration, no.
40% of eligible voters did not vote. Voter turnout was ordinary. No Presidential election is a mandate for “remaking” the nation.
And no, you will never understand. So why are you here?
Well by that standard a majority of the country will never has voted for any president, and never will vote for any president. It’s a pretty meaningless standard. And that doesn’t change his approval ratings.