BREAKING: In the past 12 months Obama's approval rating has dropped 4 pts
September 02, 2010 10:03 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Hey, I'm just telling you what the daily tracking poll numbers at Gallup tells us:
-Aug. 30, 2009: 51 percent
-Sept. 1, 2010: 47 percent
I realize that Sean Hannity on Fox News last night announced that Obama had just suffered the worst August for any president ever. And I realize much of the Beltway press has echoed that sentiment, and in fact has spent much of this year pushing its beloved narrative about how Obama's polling numbers are "falling" fast, and that his presidency is in rapid decline.
But is it true?
Just because the mainstream media and the GOP Noise Machine are (surprise!) in heated agreement about that point, and have been for months, does that make it true? I realize pointing out the fact that Obama has lost four points in his Gallup polling numbers over the last 52 weeks won't do much to discourage that narrative, and who knows, maybe he's about to take a big hit in the Gallup poll and week from now he'll be down nine points vs. one year ago.
But it's it's always useful to address the facts. And the facts according to Gallup's daily tracking poll are that in the last 12 months Obama's approval rating has declined four points. That, in a poll that has margin of error of 3 points.
I think... at least I hope... the average American will be horrified by the spectacle.
I was on Facebook the other day, and saw that my dim-bulb neocon brother-in-law had linked to some article about the "immigration scandal." A like-minded friend of his said that "Obama needs to be stopped." My brother-in-law responded, "He needs to be impeached." I decided to type in the fact about the huge number of deportations of undocumented immigrants in 2009, a 5% increase over Bush in 2008, and finished with "Yeah, he needs to be stopped. Or impeached. Or something."
I probably won't see Facebook until this evening--can't wait to see what kind of moronic responses have been garnered, other than demanding to see that I list my sources (while they probably got theirs from NewsMax or something).
So, yeah, Obama MUST BE STOPPED he's not doing anything to stem the tide of illegal immigrants into the country, even though, you know, his administration is.
If Numbnuts Bush had faced such a relentless barrage, his ratings would have been in the single digits.
If we go back, and look at say the Dan Rather incident from the '04 election. He essentially lost his longtime job for one mistake, or one piece of misinformation, and the righties were super indignant about it. And here we have, essentially an entire channel devoting itself to constant misinformation about the President, and they don't see the problem with that. Weird.
If Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Coulter, Krauthammer, Kristol, and so on, were held to those same standards, none would have a job today.
I think they knew it was coming and were ready for it.
It's not an accident that there's no proof that Bush served or didn't serve his full duty time. The documentation would have proved that he didn't, and that paperwork is gone missing.
Not to mention the economy, ill-conceived wars, the number of Americans who see him as too corporate/conservative, I'm actually surprised too that the numbers are that high.
And note to MMFA: Obama's numbers never "drop", they "PLUMMET". Always use "PLUMMET!!!!!", even if it's a two point drop to 49%, if you want to be taken seriously by the MSM..
What most average Americans these days, not very political ones, know about the president is largely the nasty lies spread by Limbaugh and Fox and they watch regular news.
The public is very uninformed of the facts and the reality of what obama has accomplished and what the congress under Pelosi has done.
They believe so much of the garbage because it is the mainstream that is taking anything by the right, including Politico, and spreading it to the masses, who assume that msm is telling the truth.
I don't blame the rightwing media half as much as I do the mainstream