Sinking down, down, down
@whiteheather39 (24403)
United States
February 26, 2010 1:20pm CST
It appears the American people are not as gullible as Obama thought! Instead of appeasing the nation with his Health Care Summit Meeting and redeeming his dropping approval rating it has dropped even lower.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20. For President Obama, the Approval Index has been lower only once. This was on 12/21/09 when he was at -21.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
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Are you surprised or did you think should have raised his approval level?[/i]
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
26 Feb 10
I noted it said that only one-third of responses were obtained after the health care summit. They didn't appear to raise the total much. It may go down further tomorrow, when they have more post-summit responses.
But I've been thinking about this problem that Obama has with falling numbers and it occurs to me that the solution for Obama is the same one he employs in all areas of his presidency: don't listen to what the people are saying, tell them what you think instead - they're not smart enough to let them think for themselves. To care about their opinions only shows weakness.
The White House should just release daily updates on what the President thinks of the voters. He could give them approval or disapproval ratings. For instance, on health care, the President strongly disapproves of the 70% of voters who want Congress to start over. Then for balance, he could tell us what he thinks of himself, which should show us all how wrong we are.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Feb 10
I honestly have never heard of any one quite as arrogant and narcissistic as Obama unless you want include all the dictators in history!
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Feb 10
Rollo1 that would be a kick to see just how far Obama would go in rating the people who did not submit to his every word.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Feb 10
Today the Rassmussen Poll has him at -21 so he now has matched his lowest result so far. I just hope it drops even more!
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
26 Feb 10
Of course I'm not surprised that Rasmussen would have a poll like this! I'm also not surprised at how the health care "summit" turned out or how different people saw it in a totally different light depending on their own preconceived notions.
I'm just sorry the summit didn't turn out to be an honest to goodness conversation about how to fix our badly broken system of delivering and paying for health care. People can say we have "the best health care in the world" until they're blue in the face, but that's not the issue. If you were dying of thirst and there was a beautiful spring with fresh, cool water ten feet away but you had to go through a swamp full of crocodiles and deadly snakes to get to it, that water wouldn't be doing you any good, would it? That's how it is with our fantastic doctors and hospitals! A wealthy sick person may be able to travel halfway around the world to get to the best doctor at the best hospital but a person across the street can't get there if they don't have the money or insurance to pay for the care. Anyway, I'm sad but not surprised that the "debate" ended up being nothing more than rehearsed and perfectly choreographed buzz words and talking points, in MY opinion, mostly from the GOP.
Annie
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Feb 10
Of course dear Annie I knew what your opinion would be. I think Obama is damn lucky to have a staunch supporter like you. No matter what you are there waving the I love Obama banner. LOL.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
27 Feb 10
If you think I've been a "staunch Obama supporter" regarding the health care issue, ou haven't been paying attention, whiteheather! Nor have I supported the Democrats as a whole "no matter what". I think there have been lots of mistakes made on the issue of health care, trust me. The President let it all up to Congress to come up with a plan and they in turn fought amongst themselves like little kids instead of being willing to work together with some good old-fashioned give and take. Meanwhile, the Republicans all followed the advice of Frank Luntz and used his talking points over and over without letting facts get in the way. The truth is, we should have had a bill signed by now and it should have even been somewhat bipartisan if some of the Republicans had only agreed with some of the very things they themselves had been for not so long ago. (One example is Senator Chuck Grasley was for "individual mandates" last summer, now he's saying they're Unconstitutional.) Politics and the special interest groups took hold of this issue about a year ago and I've said for some time that the President could have done a better job at leading on it. What happened yesterday should have happened about a year ago.
Politics has absolutely nothing to do with my passion about health care reform. I've felt this way since long before myLot existed and long before I'd ever heard of Barack Obama because I've seen first-hand how some people have suffered and how some good families have been destroyed due to a lack of health insurance. Not lazy, "free-loading" poor families but hard working middle-class people who ended up losing it all due to an illness or injury.
Annie
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Feb 10
As I have said over and over again I too am all for health care reform but not Obama Care. I have two very large concerns and that is depleting Medicare and available Health Care for Working Class Families! The poor** are well covered by Medicaid but the Working Class are not eligible for Medicaid because they try to support their families by earning a living. So Obama care is not an option for me being a senior.
** Not just the poor but also those people who CHOOSE not to work because the government provides for them very comfortably especially if you throw two or three babies into the family.
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
27 Feb 10
Of course his approval rating has tanked after that charade they called a health care summit. All that happened was Obama took center stage(as ususal), talked more than anyone else and was rude to those who disagreed with him, pretty much calling them liars. The other dems talked in circles, refused to take any advice from the reps who offered it. They might as well have been behind closed doors! Only thing is the American people got a peek at what is actually going on.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Feb 10
I really think that many people had hoped for some real changes but insteed got the same old crap from Obama and his sycophants / toadies.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Feb 10
Today the Rassmussen Poll has him at -21 so he now has matched his lowest result so far. I just how it drops even more!
@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
26 Feb 10
I am not surprised. Most people were not fooled by the dog and pony show that was the healthcare summitt. To even think that both sides could find a bipartisan solution to healthcare in 7 hours was a stupid. It would take more than ONE summit to accomplish anything.
It was all for show and the people know it.
Also Obama kind of put his foot in this mouth with his show boating with McCain. People really DO care about the process..and the bribes for votes does tick us off.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Feb 10
I did get the only laugh when Obama reminded McCain that the presidential campaign was over and McCain got a good jab in when he replied "I know I am reminded of it every day"
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for my part he could totally disappear 
@tlondon1014 (23)
• United States
28 Feb 10
I am so not surprised that his levels dropped after the summit. I watched part of the summit, and I thought he handled it poorly. It was so obvious that when someone disagreed with him, how angry he got. Being a conservative, I thought it was rather funny and frustrating of course watching him. Anyways, it seems that whenever Obama tries to do something for the sake of raising his numbers he ultimately fails in the end. I just hope that people became more aware through this Summit, even though the mainstream media channels didn't even report much on what the Republicans said or what their ideas were. It is so apparently obvious that he is compleely out of touch with what the American people want and he really did this basically for his numbers. He has no intentions of being bipartisan on this bill. He did it for publicity only, to create the illusion that he is trying to be bipartisan. Supposedly, Fox News caught him saying on his way into the summit that he was not worred because he had a Plan B anyways. He is bound and determined to get this healthcare bill passed as is obvious in that he is statin he is willing to go it alone, through reconciliation and basically ram it down our throats.
