President Obama’s Latest Approval Rating (06/20/09)
According to the latest Gallup poll President Obama’s approval rating has fallen to 58%. Still high, but well off of his high of 69-70%.
According to the poll his favorablility remains high with Democrats but has fallen to 21% with Republicans. Neither of those two facts are surprising, they are expected. But the president’s problem may be with Independents where his approval has fallen to 53%.
Independent voters are the ones who put Obama in the White House and it has to be concerning to him that his support with that voting block is beginning to falter.
The poll says that the reason for the decline isn’t clear but that the price of healthcare reform and his lack of an assertive stance on the Iran election protests might have something to do with it. That may be true, especially the cost of healthcare but I think it goes beyond that.
I believe that the president is over-reaching and moving too far,too fast. I think that after eight years of hearing Democrats complain about President Bush’s deficit spending only to watch Obama take it to a whole new level has people frustrated.
People are concerned with the money he is borrowing from China to spend and we haven’t even passed the healthcare reform and global warming bills yet. Many people know that these two bills in particular are going to raise taxes and in a recession people are afraid of what this will do to the economy.
Somebody needs to reign this president and his spending in, not only for his own the good, but for the good of the country as well.
America's Watchtower 
People get to see what was actually under that nice new shiny exterior and are seeing that there is actually no change. I’m not surprised.
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People really wanted change and to tell you the truth Obama was the only candidate who could have promised change and have people believe him. But if anyone really thought that he would be different than the fault lies with them. I don’t believe that any politician will ever deliver change.
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Let’s face it, most Americans are not politically involved, and they went for a sound bite, an image, without really checking out who this guy was. Now people are starting to find out, and they don’t like what they see. It’s not too late to use congress to lame duck this guy. Although he may be popular as a figurehead, his policies are not.
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You nailed the vast majority of the voting public. It is a shame but most people just do listen to soundbites, that is the instant gratification society we live in today. That is the only concern that I have moving forward in the 2010 election. Are people engaged enough in politics to see what this man is doing to the country? I am not sure.
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