How low can it go?

[KarlMarx]

With Obama's approval rating at 44%, I wonder... just how low can it go?

I think he'll bottom out in the high teens...

but then, I tend to give people more credit than they deserve....

[chloe]

With Obama's approval rating at 44%, I wonder... just how low can it go?

I think he'll bottom out in the high teens...

but then, I tend to give people more credit than they deserve....

:laugh2:

[Kathianne]

I'm thinking that putting this together with his 'report card' and he's in serious trouble. Problem is, those polling are 'against him,' not 'FOR' something else. That is what the GOP should be focusing on. A serious response.

[cat slave]

With Obama's approval rating at 44%, I wonder... just how low can it go?

I think he'll bottom out in the high teens...

but then, I tend to give people more credit than they deserve....

LOVE your avatar:)

[Pericles]

I'm thinking that putting this together with his 'report card' and he's in serious trouble. Problem is, those polling are 'against him,' not 'FOR' something else. That is what the GOP should be focusing on. A serious response.

The polls against him also include liberals who are hopping mad that he's governing like a squish-centrist, not a real liberal. What's he doing?? Throwing his lot in with the forces of imperialism... making concession after concession to a weak and feckless GOP on health care... dragging his feet about closing GITMO... not moving swiftly to raise taxes on the ultra-rich... giving only mealy-mouthed endorsement of a reformed climate policy... I could go on (and on).

The guy's a DINO. I have to admit, it's not a bait-and-switch - during the campaign, he said he'd govern from the center. But with his friendship with Ayers and Wright, we at least had reason to hope that he'd come out after the election as a true lib, the way Bush came out a true Con.

It's because he's trying to play it down the middle, that his policies aren't showing results, and why his popularity is in decline. Pure political philosophies are not popular; the only way to move the public in one direction or another on the ideological spectrum, is to get power, and then to govern in a way that is pure and true to your ideology. The Republicans had a golden opportunity to do this when Bush came in; but they blew it, and will not get another chance for at least twenty years. The Dems have the opportunity now, and we are blowing it. All because of this squish-centrist DINO. He knows that we have nowhere to go...

[namvet]

the GOP has him in their cross hairs. why don't they fire ???? looks like someone hit the chicken switch

[Little-Acorn]

the GOP has him in their cross hairs. why don't they fire ????

Obama isn't making any concessions to the GOP. In truth, he is completely ignoring them, except for a few far-left kooks (Snowe, Collins).

All the concessions he (actually Harry Reid right now) is making are to individual Democrat Senators to buy their votes (Liebermann, Landrieux etc.) and make his magical total of 60. Those Senators are typical liberal extremists, who never saw a tax increase they didn't like and have no problem with the government taking over all of health care, which amounts to 1/6 of the entire national economy.

But all the concessions he makes to them, have the corresponding effect of pissing off the really extreme kook-left fringe (Sanders, Schumer, Boxer etc., with the risk of losing their votes as a result.

Namvet, the Democrats are doing a great job of screwing up their party and deep-sixing their socialistic Health Care proposal.

Why should the GOP interfere with this process?