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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118644)	11/29/2011 11:04:01 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

If you are going to be sensitive about any thing, make it about still supporting Obama......we all make WAGs that don't prove out.....you do seem a tad extra touchy this morning.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118644)	11/30/2011 1:42:01 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter'sNovember 29, 2011 RSS Feed Print Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history. Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent. [Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.] Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter's ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980. According to Gallup, here are the job approval numbers for other presidents at this stage of their terms, a year before the re-election campaign: -- Harry S. Truman: 54 percent. -- Dwight Eisenhower: 78 percent. -- Lyndon B. Johnson: 44 percent. -- Richard M. Nixon: 50 percent. -- Ronald Reagan: 54 percent. -- George H.W. Bush: 52 percent. -- Bill Clinton: 51 percent. -- George W. Bush: 55 percent. What's more, Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a model. [Vote now: Will Obama be a one-term president?] Many pundits believe that job approval ratings are the key number to look at when determining if a president will win re-election. Generally, they feel that a president should be higher than 47 percent to win re-election. Obama's troubles have revived talk in Democratic circles that Vice President Joe Biden should be replaced by the politically popular Hillary Clinton. She plans to leave as secretary of state at the end of Obama's term no matter what happens in the re-election. A key Democratic source said that Clinton could help revive the Democratic base and bring in Clinton backers, with whom the administration has had a cool relationship. Clinton has repeatedly rejected talk of her swapping roles with Biden, but Democratic operatives eager to keep the president in office believe that she would be the key to winning educated white voters and liberals upset with the administration's actions.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118644)	11/30/2011 1:46:14 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Obama's Re-election Threatened By Sour MoodNovember 25, 2011 RSS Feed Print Americans are growing more pessimistic about the future, a bad sign for political incumbents everywhere. Eighty-one per cent believe the country is on the wrong track, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, a higher number than other surveys have found. This question--measuring the country's mood and level of satisfaction with the status quo--has traditionally been a key indicator of whether a president will be re-elected. If so, President Obama is in trouble. [Vote now: Will Obama be a one-term president?] Only 33 per cent approve of Obama's handing of the economy, which is the main issue for most Americans; 45 per cent believe he deserves re-election while 48 per cent say he doesn't. Pollsters of both major parties note that Obama seems to have a solid 45 per cent of the country in his corner, but it will be tough for him to get beyond that. So against a single Republican opponent, he might well lose because he would fall short of a majority. But if there is a third party or independent candidate from the right, that person could siphon off enough support from the GOP to throw the election to Obama. [See a collection of political cartoons on the GOP hopefuls.] White voters are a particular problem for Obama. Only 37 per cent approve of the job he is doing as president. He also garners less support among Hispanics than he has in the past. About 56 per cent of Hispanics approve of his job performance; he won 67 per cent of the Latino vote in 2008.