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A year after President Barack Obama's political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 - 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 - 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This compares to a 48 - 43 percent approval for Obama in a May 26 national poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University and a 57 - 33 percent approval last July, just before the political firestorm created by opposition to his health care plan galvanized political opponents and turned independent voters against him.
So his approval has dropped 13 points and disapproval has risen 15 points... a combined 28 point shift in his job approval ratings.
He should be concerned by this. Oh, not just because this makes it less likely he will be re-elected in 2012, and not just because it also means that Democrats will face a harder job of getting re-elected... but because the American people do not like the policies he is pushing.
And no politician should shove unwanted policies down the throats of Americans. At some point, the will of the people has to mean SOMETHING, or else our entire system of representative government collapses.
"At some point, the will of the people has to mean SOMETHING, or else our entire system of representative government collapses."
ReplyDeleteAgreed. The question here, though, is what do we do when he continues to shove these policies down our throats?
We continue to oppose those policies vocally, we complain to our Congressmen, we challenge the laws in court when they adversely affect us, and we do what we can to make sure those responsible for the objectionable poolicies no longer have a free hand to torture the country after 2010... or 2012.
ReplyDeleteThe last one requires that we trust Republicans and put them back in charge... for lack of a better option. We must hold them to the same standard and insist that they follow through.