BREAKING: S & P Downgrades Iowa’s IQ

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

monetary circles (accounting) is one way to view it the number posted. there is also another ... and the other way is also being used in monetary circles ...

700k = 700,000

700M = 700,000,000

Are you done splitting hairs now?

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Gallup: Obama job rating sinks below 40% for first time

By Michael A. Memoli

10:31 AM PDT, August 14, 2011

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President Obama's summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40% for the first time in Gallup's daily tracking poll.

New data posted Sunday shows that 39% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance, while 54% disapprove. Both are the worst numbers of his presidency.

Obama's approval rating has hovered in the 40% range for much of 2011, peaking at 53% in the weeks following the death of Osama bin Laden.

But Americans' view of his job performance continued to tick downward as the debt-ceiling debate heated up. By the time he signed legislation averting a federal default, he was mired in the low-40% range.

The polling setback comes as the Republican race to unseat him has kicked into overdrive. The past week has been dominated by the activity in Iowa ahead of the Ames Straw Poll, and the entrance of a new contender in Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The candidates have routinely assailed Obama's leadership in appealing to conservative activists who dominate this stage of the nominating contest.

Obama is set to launch something of a counter-offensive on Monday with a three-day bus tour of the Midwest, a trip that includes two stops in Iowa. The White House denied that the itinerary was politically motivated, however.

The three-day tracking poll was conducted from Aug. 11-13

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-approval-20110814,0,2481281.story

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Are you done splitting hairs now?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

*yawn* we'll see how this plays out soon enough.

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and you helped elect him. i hope you're proud of yourself.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Gallup: Obama job rating sinks below 40% for first time

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And yet he's light years ahead of the GOP, their leaders and the Tea Party nuts. The generic Congressional ballot spells some trouble for the GOP as well...

After Downgrade Boehner, McConnell, and GOP Approval Ratings Plunge

August 9, 2011

By Jason Easley

The CNN poll found that John Boehner’s approval rating has fallen off a cliff. In July, Boehner had a 43% favorable rating and a 32% unfavorable rating, (net +11). After the debt ceiling debacle the numbers have reversed. Boehner now has a 33% favorable rating, and 40% unfavorable rating. The Speaker of the House has gone from a plus eleven to a net minus seven. That is an 18 point negative swing in one month.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel didn’t fare much better than Boehner. McConnell’s favorable rating dropped from 27% to 21%. His unfavorable rating grew from 32% to 39%. In July McConnell’s net favorable rating was at a (-5), today his net negative is (-18). McConnell suffered a net thirteen point negative swing in a month.

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The Republican Party itself now has a 33% favorable rating and a 59% unfavorable rating. In July the GOP had a 41% favorable rating and a 55% unfavorable rating. Republicans lost 8 points off of their favorable rating, and gained 4 points in unfavorability. The end result is a net (-12) swing in their numbers.

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The Tea Party mirrored the Republican Party’s decline. In July, they had a 37% favorable rating and a 47% unfavorable rating. After pushing the country to the brink of default, they now have a 31% favorable rating and a 51% unfavorable rating. This is net (-10) point swing in their favorability.

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On the flip side, the Democratic Party has a 47% favorable rating and a 47% unfavorable rating. In July the Democrats had 45% favorable rating and a 49% unfavorable rating. The party of Obama’s favorables went up by two points, and their unfavorable went down by two points for a net four point gain. The Democratic Party was the news maker to gain in favorability.

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and you helped elect him. i hope you're proud of yourself.

I elected you?

Must have been drunk or something...

Edited August 14, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Are you done splitting hairs now?

Obama will lose.

The country is, and always has been, very closely divided with a few votes, maybe 5%-10% swinging back and forth to make the decision. Even Reagan had only electoral landslides.

Obama lost the 5% that got him elected in the first place. And that was against McCain!

Obama's problem now is that he cannot run on his record, he cannot say "We have accomplished X, let us stay the course" as Reagan could do, Bush could do and even Clinton could do (and Clinton only won because a third party candidate took votes from his opponent) Obama can't. The Dems shot him in the head for two years and now the Repubs are not going to allow him to do anything. He really can't run on attacking Reagan or Bush, but that's all he's got. He really is going to have to do something other than throw rocks at Bachman/Perry/Palin/Romney...but he can't.

Instead of fighting with each other for two years the Dems should have done something, anything.

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The people are largely on his side on the various issues.

Which reality are you living in again?

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Which reality are you living in again?

The one that says Americans want jobs, a stable and growing economy, affordable healthcare, an end to Washington pay-to-play and gridlocked politics, and an end to cowboy American foreign policy.

Obama campaigned on those issues and still believes in them. So do Americans.

[Pooky 3,825]

The one that says Americans want jobs, a stable and growing economy, affordable healthcare, an end to Washington pay-to-play and gridlocked politics, and an end to cowboy American foreign policy.

Obama campaigned on those issues and still believes in them. So do Americans.

He definitely campaigned on those issues, and the American people still believe in them.

However, he has achieved squat in most cases, and the American people also believe in the results they see. So, while his ideas may be in synch with the American people, the majority don't support the way he has gone about trying to back up his ideas with actions, or, in a number of cases, his complete lack of action.

Now, I'm not saying that any of the potential GOP challengers will fare any better, but Obama's record of delivering effectively on his policies does him no favours.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The one that says Americans want jobs, a stable and growing economy, affordable healthcare, an end to Washington pay-to-play and gridlocked politics, and an end to cowboy American foreign policy.

Obama campaigned on those issues and still believes in them. So do Americans.

Obama did nothing about them, but Americans still believe in them so they will elect someone else that might actually do something

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He definitely campaigned on those issues, and the American people still believe in them.

However, he has achieved squat in most cases, and the American people also believe in the results they see. So, while his ideas may be in synch with the American people, the majority don't support the way he has gone about trying to back up his ideas with actions, or, in a number of cases, his complete lack of action.

Now, I'm not saying that any of the potential GOP challengers will fare any better, but Obama's record of delivering effectively on his policies does him no favours.

I agree with you.

So, I think, does Big Dog.

Go back and re-read his posts. That's just what he wrote, when you challenged his "reality". Obama has the American people on his side regarding the issues. But not on his performance. Hence is approval numbers.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I agree with you.

So, I think, does Big Dog.

Go back and re-read his posts. That's just what he wrote, when you challenged his "reality". Obama has the American people on his side regarding the issues. But not on his performance. Hence is approval numbers.

Hence, he gets booted and we elect another politician to do nothing. The cycle will continue until enough Americans figure out that government is not the solution and elect people that will get government OUT of our business.

Democrats always assume that "affordable health care" means "government health care" How about tort reform to get parasitic attorneys out of health care? How about allowing free competition for medical insurance across state lines, how about Geico ads for health insurance nationwide? Why aren't those things tried FIRST? Who doesn't want affordable health care? No one. Who doesn't want government health care? A LOT of people. Obama and his do nothing government are WHY we do not want government health care.

Arguing numbers is not going to help Obama. The fact is that the issues he was elected on, the change he promised...never happened and isn't going to. And it didn't happen because the DEMs, when handed the chance on a silver platter could do nothing but bicker and backstab each other. Healthcare, REAL healthcare reform, should have been passed and signed a couple days after his inauguration or even the same day. Gitmo should have been closed the same day, the troops should have been out of Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of January...2009. Bye Bye Obama.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Which reality are you living in again?

The only reality there is. You might think that you have discovered an alternate reality but I'm here to tell you that it doesn't exist. The public is in favor of addressing jobs before addressing the deficit. The public is in favor of addressing the deficit via a mix of raising revenues and cutting spending. The public is in favor of protecting Medicare and Social Security. And that's just for starters. People also believe in protecting our environment, tapping alternate energy sources and investing in our children and their education. The GOP is against all of that. Obama and the Democrats support these views. That's the reality whether you elect to participate in it or not. The GOP isn't sliding in public opinion for no reason.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I agree with you.

So, I think, does Big Dog.

Go back and re-read his posts. That's just what he wrote, when you challenged his "reality". Obama has the American people on his side regarding the issues. But not on his performance. Hence is approval numbers.

That's right. On the other hand, the public now faces the choice between an administration that wants to pursue a path consistent with their priorities and one that openly wants to go the other way. When faced with the choice of not getting far down the road you want to go down and being taken into a direction you certainly don't want to go, there's a good chance that people will take a little down the right path over much down the wrong path. What will hurt Obama is the fact that he refuses to fight the good fight. That is the only thing that can bring him down against the cadre the other side is putting up. Michele Bachmann? Please.