Latest Rasmussen Poll Has President Obama Under 50%
According to the latest Rasmussen tracking poll Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen under 50% for the first time. Rasmussen is one of the most reliable and accurate polls because they count likely voters and not adults or Americans. This poll talks to voters and not people who most likely will not vote.
This has to be a little disturbing to the president, he has burned off all of the political capital and good will that he had in January as he continues to slide further to the left. He has fallen back to earth much faster than president Bush did this early in his first term.
According to Rasmussen, under 30% of voters strongly approve of the president’s policies while 40% strongly disapprove, while voters who either somewhat agree or disagree with his policies is a toss up, with 49% who approve and 50% who disapprove. This it the first time that Obama has been under 50%.
The president’s problem appears to be, and I alluded to it above, that he is sliding to the left and the more he slides to the left the more his approval ratings drop. When President Obama first took over there was talk that he would govern from the center, to center left but that has not been the case and as the following numbers show, he is appearing to be more liberal than some of the moderates and Independents thought that he was.
The President is now seen as politically liberal by 76%. That’s up six points from a month ago, 11 points since he was elected, and the highest total to date. Forty-eight percent (48%) now see him as Very Liberal, up 20 points since he was elected
I wrote that it is Independents and moderates who are now beginning to think that the president is more liberal than they thought, the poll doesn’t break those numbers down but I am assuming that conservatives knew how liberal he was from the beginning.
I believe that the country as a whole is not as liberal as President Obama, and I think that so many people were so fed up and angry at President Bush and the Republicans that they decided to give Obama a chance, now that they realize how liberal he actually is his numbers are coming down, and I have to say they have fallen quickly in the last two weeks.
And with 53% (and growing daily, 53% is up eight points from last month) of Americans opposed to the healthcare reform bill and only 25% who think that the stimulus bill has helped the economy it doesn’t look like Obama’s numbers are going to get better any time soon. Those two bills represent an inconceivable amount of money and with the economy so bad Americans are not going to want to see further spending by this administration.
Americans see the economy as the biggest issue and 75% of Americans believe the stimulus bill did not work, in other words President Obama has failed on what most Americans consider to be the highest priority.
With only 20% of the public who feels that healthcare should be a priority of the president’s people must be wondering why the president is focused on healthcare when he should be focusing more attention on the economy.
America's Watchtower 
Could it be the people are waking from his spell?
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I think that they are.
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Healthcare is definitely now our number one concern but it is on the top ten for the far left liberals. This, I think, will be one of our biggest battles this year.
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I think that this is the bissest battle this year, but we still have the global warming legislation to contend with also. We are fighting a war on two fronts.
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*sigh*….. I just “hope” he doesn’t try to tie this into the whole— unfortunately race problems still exist, thing.
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I think that you know he will. That is his whole history, it is who he is.
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Maybe, just maybe at the end of the slippy slope is a cliff. All bad things must come to an end, to play on the old phrase.
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The more his approval ratings crash, the less likely he’ll get anything passed. The big two of course are health care and cap and trade. If we can squash them and then win either the house or the senate back next year, America should be able to survive this abomination of a President. Things are looking better every day.
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That is what I am hoping for. If we just get to the recess without helathcare reform we may have a chance to stop it.
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What has taken so long for people to see him as liberal? I find it stunning that anyone would think he wasn’t. And as far as him slipping down the slope in his ratings, he can slip right off into oblivion as far as I’m concerned.
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That is the question that I keep asking myself. Why were people so easily fooled by this man?
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As Rush Limbaugh said, “I want him to fail!”
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And believing that too has earned me the title of being “divisive”. But why would I want someone who is 180 degrees from just about everything I believe to succeed?
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Yes, I also want the POTUS to fail. I want him to fail at implementing his socialist agenda and I want him to fail at undermining and eroding our personal freedoms. I want him to fail at trying to force me to let the Government tell me how to live my life, what to eat, how to take care of my health, what is and is not good for me and how to raise MY children.
I absolutely want obama to fail. And then I want a real man for a President, a real conservative American man and I want to get this country back on track.
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I want him to fail also. I don’t understand why that is so controvercial. He is a radical socialist at best, and a communist at worse. Why the hell would I want somebody like that to succeed?
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The most concerning thing to Obama is that it’s all of his own creation. There’s no concerted Republican or media attack machine getting effective opposition messages out – it’s the man and his policies that are intrinsically appearing more and more ridiculous and ineffective.
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