Poll: Americans losing confidence in Obama

[zqt3344 21]

Fri Aug 21, 5:49 am ET

WASHINGTON – A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget deficit, are losing faith in President Barack Obama.

The Washington Post-ABC News survey found that less that half of Americans — 49 percent — say they believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. That's down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of the Obama presidency.

The poll published Friday says Obama's overall approval is 57 percent, 12 points lower than it was at its peak in April. Fifty-three percent disapprove of the way he's handling the budget deficit and his approval on health care continues to deteriorate.

The national survey was conducted Aug. 13-17 and has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

[zqt3344 21]

Amazing, what has happened to the boy wonder? What has happened to the superman? What has happened to the Messiah? What has happened to the fearless leader of the teleprompter?

Fri Aug 21, 5:49 am ET

WASHINGTON – A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget deficit, are losing faith in President Barack Obama.

The Washington Post-ABC News survey found that less that half of Americans — 49 percent — say they believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. That's down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of the Obama presidency.

The poll published Friday says Obama's overall approval is 57 percent, 12 points lower than it was at its peak in April. Fifty-three percent disapprove of the way he's handling the budget deficit and his approval on health care continues to deteriorate.

The national survey was conducted Aug. 13-17 and has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

[Niels Bohr 72]

What happened to McCain, the Republican Messiah, what happened to Sarah Pailin, the backdoor milf that McCain loved....

[Tahoma 2,292]

Obama had better get busy if he's going to beat Bush's 19% approval rating!

[SMOKE 1,426]

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

3.419178082 years or 1284 days.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Obama had better get busy if he's going to beat Bush's 19% approval rating!

Perhaps Obama should declare war on Iran - that will do it

[zqt3344 21]

>3.5 now! Looking at bright side!

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

[Otto 83]

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

Ya...the sour-grapes-crowd will be sour-raisins by then..

[zqt3344 21]

More like fruit cocktail!

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

Ya...the sour-grapes-crowd will be sour-raisins by then..

[SMOKE 1,426]

Too bad you're stuck with him for 4 years isn't it.

Ya...the sour-grapes-crowd will be sour-raisins by then..

unfortunatly the plum US dollar will be a prune too.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Seriously who gives a flying ** about poll numbers at the start of a 4 year term.

If Obama can't enact the core policy initiatives of his campaign platform - he's obviously going to be out of office (unless of course the GOP manages to put up a completely ridiculous candidate - like Sarah Palin).

[Otto 83]

(unless of course the GOP manages to put up a completely ridiculous candidate - like Sarah Palin).

Oh come now - it's not like they (the GOP) have a history of promoting ridiculous candidates... Oh wait...

[SMOKE 1,426]

Seriously who gives a flying ** about poll numbers at the start of a 4 year term.

If Obama can't enact the core policy initiatives of his campaign platform - he's obviously going to be out of office (unless of course the GOP manages to put up a completely ridiculous candidate - like Sarah Palin).

& i still say the GOP threw the election in 2008 coz no Republican would have won. McCain/Palin fvckin really?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Seriously who gives a flying ** about poll numbers at the start of a 4 year term.

If Obama can't enact the core policy initiatives of his campaign platform - he's obviously going to be out of office (unless of course the GOP manages to put up a completely ridiculous candidate - like Sarah Palin).

& i still say the GOP threw the election in 2008 coz no Republican would have won. McCain/Palin fvckin really?

It would have been very difficult for *any* GOP candidate to win that election - because that person would have had to show that they were prepared to draw a line under the Bush administration and prove that they were something demonstrably different from what had gone before.

McCain realized that a little too late I think - McCain accepted an endorsement from Bush after he won the nomination and there was a suggestion from Bush that he would go out and campaign actively for him in November.

Then when the RNC convention came around, Bush was snubbed not only by the McCain campaign but by the entire party.

I don't think they realised quite how much of an albatross Bush had become.

Edited August 21, 2009 by Private Pike