But The One can’t be happy about these numbers:
Trust in President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies to identify the right solutions to problems facing the country has dropped off significantly since March, according to a new Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll.Just as Obama intensifies his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise and reach an agreement with Congress on health care reform, the number of Americans who say they trust the president has fallen from 66 percent to 54 percent. At the same time, the percentage of those who say they do not trust the president has jumped from 31 to 42.
And the Party of Pelosi?
The president’s party has taken a similar hit since the last Public Trust Monitor poll, with only 42 percent of respondents saying that they trust the Democratic Party, compared with 52 percent who do not. The party’s numbers are nearly the inverse of March’s survey, in which 52 percent said they trusted Democrats and 42 percent did not.
Obama’s overreach on healthcare and his squandering of the nation’s economic future are orders of magnitude worse than the Clinton overreach that led to the Gingrich revolution.
The only real question: is there are GOP that can pick up this fumble?
That’s the worry.
Just wait until Hopey/Changey phase II! It’s just like Hopey/Changey I, but with more cowbell.
It’s gonna be great.
US News & World Report echoes the theme:
The decline in Obama’s approval numbers is being driven by a lack of confidence in the way he is handling four key domestic issues: the economy, taxes, the aforementioned healthcare, and the federal budget deficit. And, says Gallup, “The biggest drop has been on his handling of the economy, down 12 points since February; his disapproval is up 19 points.”
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/07/21/obamas-sinking-approval-ratings-are-even-worse-than-they-look.html
Perhaps his approval rating will increase if Obama has a press conference and tells us that being a prosperous country is no longer an option, that it has been tried and failed, and he will fix this problem so that, even ten or twenty years from, we will not be prosperous.