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Polls Hurt The One - Economy Blamed
Now we'll see some action!
Deepening economic pessimism has pushed down President Obama's approval rating to a near record low, but he holds an early advantage over prospective 2012 rivals in part because of widespread dissatisfaction with Republican candidates, according to a new poll.
Good news - the incumbent faces a weak field - I'm sure that's the way the WaPo reported it in 2007, when the Dims were lining up to take a swing at W.
If the election were held now, Romney and Huckabee would mount the stiffest challenges, trailing Obama by four and six percentage points respectively, among all Americans as well as among registered voters.
If frogs had wings, they'd be pigeons.
Obama has double-digit leads over the other five tested -- a dozen points against the latest celebrity Trump and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), 15 against long-ago dethroned has-been Newt Gingrich and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and 17 points over the much-feared, grizzly-slaying, gun-toting, daughter's-boyfriend's-mother's bad habits, is it hers or is it Bristol's kid Palin.

Driving the downward movement in Obama's standing are renewed concerns about the economy and fresh worry about rising prices, particularly for gasoline. Despite reports the recession was over two years ago and oft-reported signs of economic growth, 44 percent of Americans see the economy as getting worse, the highest percentage to say so in more than two years.
When the last recession was reported to have ended. Wish we were still drilling in the Gulf, Mr. President?
Not to worry, WaPo faithful, because If Obama is running into headwinds, however, his potential Republican opponents face serious problems, as well. Less than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they are satisfied with the field of GOP candidates.
I'd hafta include myself in that category, because I don't want a field of candidates, I'd like to see a patriotic leader for a candidate.
The latest findings come after the compromise agreement between Obama and Republicans to cut spending in the current fiscal year. It also comes less than a week after the president outlined his proposals for dealing with the country's debt and deficit problems in a speech that included a withering attack on a Republican proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
Just the facts please. Try not to let your obvious bias for the incumbent be so ... obvious.
Buck up, dear readers; don't forget that Then-President Ronald Reagan was also below 50 percent at this point in 1983, but April of that year marked the last time before his 1984 landslide that he did not have majority approval in Post-ABC polling.
We could still have another landslide for our favorite candidate ever!
On the other hand...
Obama trails all seven Republicans among those who see the economy as getting worse -- Republicans are more apt than Democrats to perceive weakening -- and the president runs about evenly with potential competitors among those who report being the hardest hit by skyrocketing prices at the pump.
Keep dragging out that little war in Libya, Mr. President.
Economic anxiety also amplifies the president's challenges among core voter groups: For the first time in available data, more than half of whites without college degrees see the economy as deteriorating.
Even the unemployed, disadvantaged-with-no-minority-crutch-to-help-them, redneck core-voters think the economy is in the tank!
The telephone poll was conducted April 14-17 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults interviewed on old-people's conventional or cellular telephone. The margin of sampling error for the full poll is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; it is five points for the sample of self-identified Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.
Posted by: Bobby 2011-04-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=320765