Even the L.A. Times notes, “He reached that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did.”
The new low for Obama in the Gallup Poll, which measured the president’s public job approval at a peak of 69% after his inauguration in January, tracks other national polls, which recently have gauged his approval ratings at 51%.
It also coincides with apparent growing public concern about a protracted debate over healthcare in Washington, Gallup and other pollsters have found.
Should the slide continue, Obama will by no means be the first president to slide below 50% in the Gallup Poll, which has been tracking public approval of presidents since Harry S. Truman.
But Obama has reached his new low more quickly than most of his predecessors did, according to Gallup. The percentage of people voicing disapproval for the job the president is performing also stands at a near-high of 43%.
Slipping below 50% before November of the first year in office would represent “the third-fastest drop” since World War II, Gallup reports. Republican Gerald Ford slipped below 50% in his third month as president, Democrat Bill Clinton during his fourth month.
The people are starting to shake off the effects of the media’s hype and see that they have elected an inexperienced, incompetent big spending liberal to the highest office in the land, and they don’t like it. That’ s my expert analysis of it anyway.
I’m sure the health care debate has quite a bit to do with it, along with:
- the failure of the stimulus plan,
- the cap and trade bill,
- his worldwide apology tour,
- calling cops stupid before knowing all the facts,
- giving the Queen and iPod,
- investigating the CIA but letting the New Black Panthers off the hook,
- preempting numerous episodes of American Idol,
- slandering doctors not once, but twice,
- having more Czars than the Romanoffs
- rushing legislation through with no transparency
- bowing to leaders of other nations
You know, stuff like that…
