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Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Numbers Reflect Voters Hate The President's Budget

Rasmussen has released its Superbowl Sunday version of its Presidential approval ratings and their report only tells part of the story. The report shows the president's approval index down to a -17, but what it doesn't show is that the depth of President's recent slide is a direct result of the bloated budget he sent to congress almost a week ago.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 26% 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 which gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 

Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That matches the lowest level of overall approval yet measured for this president. Fifty-six percent (56%) now disapprove.
The charts Rasmussen provides show the Presidents approval rating since his inauguration. The trends of which are well known:
But only when you isolate the past two weeks, as I have done below, is the full story exposed. (click on chart to see it bigger)

As you look through the numbers, realize that the daily Rasmussen Poll is actually a three day rolling average, so trends need a few days to work themselves out.

On the day the POTUS gave the State of the Union Address, he was at an overall approval/ disapproval disadvantage (46-53%) and the approval index (based on strong approval/disapproval) was at a -15.  Within a day or two of his speech the President's numbers took a huge bounce. By this past Monday, his overall approval /disapproval numbers were almost even and his approval index reached its highest number since mid October -4.

This past Sunday reports about the President's budget began to leak out. On Monday, the budget was officially released, and voters saw that all of the pretty fiduciary responsibility talk within the SOTU was just that, talk. With that Obama's approval numbers dived faster than a congressman rushing to spend our last dollar. Each one of his approval numbers are now worse than they were the day of the State Of the Union.

After a year of President Obama's misdirection, lies and spin, American voters may be finally waking up. Its not that his wonderful prose doesn't get him a nice bump, but voters are looking at the facts and realizing it tells a totally different story than the POTUS has laid out. The polling numbers show that the voters are not happy with the REAL story.

7 comments:

bansheewailer said...

The SOTUS bounce illustrates that Obama can fool much of the populace time after time. Obama, as a consummate con-man, will continue to make the dense dunces dance to his specious spiel -- too much trouble for the lemmings to think for themselves; easier to collude with the con and plead nonresponsibility for the results.

c w swanson said...

I hope you are right about this Sammy, and the voters are indeed aware of what's going on. Certainly if true, we may have what the founders intended, an engaged and intelligent electorate, something that really hasn't been the case in the recent past. There is hope.

Stan25 said...

Obama's numbers are diving faster than a submarine doing a crash dive to avoid aircraft detection. Gotta love it.

Rich Vail said...

You make a great point love your graph, I borrowed it and linked. Also added you to my blogroll. Thanks,

Rich

http://thevailspot.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

When is America going to realize that Obama is a big, fat liar? You can trust absolutely nothing that he man says! It is obvious that he knows what people want to hear... unfortunately, that's NOT what he's gonna do. He is the most cynical politician ever to occupy the office of the presidency. Without constant press obfuscation, he would have an approval rating in the single digits.

Leon said...

It's not what Obama says

It's what he does that defines him.

Unknown said...

"One caller to C-Span – which aired nearly the entire [Tea Party] convention – said the sight of primarily white and older self-described “patriots” frightened her. She said the gathering looked like a lynch mob."

Do we who disapprove of the president sound like a lynch mob frightening the little lady too?