Schmucko’s Approval Rating at New Low (for ABC News Poll)
Democrats face serious obstacles as they look to the November elections, with President Obama’s approval rating at a new low and a majority of voters saying they prefer a Congress in Republican hands to check the president’s agenda, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Obama’s approval rating fell to 41 percent, down from 46 percent through the first three months of the year and the lowest of his presidency in Post-ABC News polls. Just 42 percent approve of his handling of the economy, 37 percent approve of how he is handling the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and 34 percent approve of his handling of the situation involving Ukraine and Russia.
Other surveys have put Obumbler’s approval rating even lower in the past, but it’s nice to see a trend with this one. Keep up the good work, pal.
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:38 amAgainst the backdrop of things like the following, it’s actually contemptible that the horrible person in the White House isn’t doing worse in public polling:
Mark (59e5be) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:59 amRemember this is a D+11 poll.
the bhead (fbcafb) — 4/29/2014 @ 8:16 am“Schmucko”? How dare you insult our beloved Dear Leader; he who has halted the rise of the oceans; he who has won a Nobel Prize?
I mean–get a grip Patterico. Just because the guy is a not very bright, feckless little numb nuts, there’s no reason to go all nuclear on him by calling him “Schmucko”. First of all he has to actually have a schmuck, and that qualification is very much in doubt.
Skeptical Voter (12e67d) — 4/29/2014 @ 8:22 amHis peevishness at these press conferences abroad–he can’t entirely escape media questions–must be turning people off even more.
Patricia (be0117) — 4/29/2014 @ 8:23 amDems in deep doo doo
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/29/2014 @ 8:40 amlike I’ve consistently said
throw teh damn bums out!
SV, not just a Nobel Prize, but the
PEACE PRIZE!
Contemplating that achievement just leaves me breathless….
askeptic (8ecc78) — 4/29/2014 @ 8:54 amyou laugh for five+ minutes and you’ll be breathless too.
What was Bush’s lowest approval rating? 19%?
BOOOOOOOOSH
Leviticus (f9a067) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:07 amAmerica is becoming more and more racist!!!
Dan S (00fc90) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:18 amSaying Bush has become the precursor to a new Godwin’s Law
JD (6a6c22) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:21 am8-
Using the Evan Thomas metric of the media giving any Dem a 15-point edge, Bush’s rating would be a more respectable 34%.
Plus, this was a D+11 poll, so that would drop The O-Man to somewhere between 30 and 35.5%
It’s a wash.
askeptic (8ecc78) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:23 amBush’s approval rating tanked because so many of us who generally supported him got frustrated with the repeated failures in his second term. The lesson of Obama is that no matter how wretched his leadership is, there are about 1/3 of the country who are too cowed by him to express disapproval.
I denounce myself.
JVW (9946b6) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:33 amcan you imagine where he’d be if the fed took the training wheels off
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:41 amIf you look at the poll internals, Democrats are over represented, so Democrats are actually in more trouble than the headline indicates. If the poll had featured a more representative sample, Obama would have polled even worse.
Brent Glines (b7c67e) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:43 amAnd this is with his ass being washed 24 hours a day by the news media.
CrustyB (69f730) — 4/29/2014 @ 10:17 amAll of this bad news for Obama will be forgotten when “Recovery Summer V” kicks into full gear.
Neo (d1c681) — 4/29/2014 @ 10:30 amAnother reason to get rid of these sh*tbirds…
Judicial Watch Secures White House Email Stating That Primary Goal of Susan Rice Appearances Were to Establish That Benghazi Attack Was Due to “Internet Video” and Not “Failure of Policy” – Ace of AoS
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/29/2014 @ 10:35 am11. I’ll buy that.
I’d also bet that 30-35% includes the dregs of our society however measured.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 11:37 amDear America,
Being President is a hard job. But you wouldn’t know what a hard job is, because so many of you are unemployed—due to Bush, winter storms, the Ukraine, ATM machines, Donald Sterling, missing airplanes, and other stuff.
Or something.
Love,Signed,
Barack
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 4/29/2014 @ 2:43 pmIt’s Bush’s fault.
Five percent in a month, in eight months it will be 0. How appropriate. How do polls handle negative numbers?
htom (412a17) — 4/29/2014 @ 3:42 pmIt’s as if president sfb is in a Cheech and Chong movie.
mg (31009b) — 4/29/2014 @ 4:18 pmhttp://americanthinker.com/2014/04/the_dont_worry_be_happy_president.html
My friend, had an interview on the bundy matter;
http://peterboyles.podbean.com/
narciso (3fec35) — 4/29/2014 @ 4:28 pmDear America,
I don’t exactly approve of you, either !
Love,Signed,
Barack
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 4/29/2014 @ 4:43 pmnarciso – what a dynamite interview. She has more balls than a pond on a golf course. Thanks narciso.
mg (31009b) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:08 pmI used to listen to Peter and Alan Berg back in the 80’s and 90’s.
24. A treasure.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:31 pmEvidently ibn Dunham’s track record has preceded him, adults seem to have become involved.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-29/west-strikes-back-these-are-all-nato-aircraft-deployments-response-ukraine-crisis
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:34 pm26. Oh, yeah, he was in Japan.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-29/japanese-manufacturing-pmi-collapses-fastest-pace-record-drops-14-month-lows
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:37 pmIf you look at the slightly more detailed view they permit, you can see that the news is worse for Obama than first glimpsed. The strongly disapprove side is always much larger than the strongly approve side, by rather more than the simple approve/disapprove margin. On the main approval question, Obama is at -17 in that respect. You can see this type of thing across all the questions.
Sadly, I cannot find the raw poll numbers. It would be interesting to see the white voter and the older voter cross-tabs. Bet you they REALLY suck for Obama.
Kevin M (b11279) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:40 pmOr, as someone said to me today, we could have had President Roslin, but instead we voted for Baltar. Teh suck.
Kevin M (b11279) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:41 pmWhat was Bush’s lowest approval rating? 19%?
Well, if you normalize blacks, who are about 12% of the population and are reflexively for Obama, you find that among everyone else, Bush does better.
(19+12 = 32) > (41-12 = 29)
Kevin M (b11279) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:46 pmSeems sensible to me:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/28/Richard-Viguerie-to-Conservatives-It-s-the-Primaries-Stupid
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:48 pmSo’s this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/29/sen-paul-pushes-bill-to-end-us-aid-to-palestinians/
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:51 pmHow long until president sfb takes credit for this?
mg (31009b) — 4/29/2014 @ 5:57 pmhttp://news.yahoo.com/bakken-oil-fields-mark-billionth-164007099.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7j.F9TXSMAabvQtDMD
26-gary, sfb will never let our pilots shine.
mg (31009b) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:02 pmThis looks a little like the Allied fleet in Crimea, 160 years ago,
narciso (3fec35) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:04 pm17. Note that the writer of the Benghazi ass-covering e-mail is Ben Rhodes, brother of David Rhodes, president of CBS news, which marginalized Sharyl Atkinnson out of a job, in part because of her digging on Benghazi.
Walter Cronanty (d16f1a) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:06 pmIf we had a MSM worthy of our First Amendment, Obama would never have been elected.
gary- Viguerie should have Prince Reibus’s job at the rnc!!!
mg (31009b) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:07 pm37. And 2015 should be headlined by a trial:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/04/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:45 pmAlso via Doug Ross:
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:52 pmEven this guy is for impeachment and trial:
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/29/ralph-nader-cmon-lets-impeach-obama/
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 6:58 pmActually 2014 looks worse than 2010.
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/29/msm-so-the-2014-midterm-cycle-is-starting-to-look-an-awful-lot-like-2010/
Reading in only bad prospects for Dhimmi incumbents neglects half the story.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:08 pmYes, and the top men, will act accordingly, as they did with O’Donnell, Angle, McMillan
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/04/someone-whos-not-david-gregory-faces-tax-investigation-after-absurd-gun-prosecution/
narciso (3fec35) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:42 pmDoesn’t Bush out poll Obama nowadays?
On the D+11 alleged over-sample in this poll, the polls in 2012 everyone thought were bogus were similar. Nate Silver or someone made the point back then that people who used to identify as R were now calling themselves I – which turned out to be right on the money.
This poll has 32% identifying as D, which is actually low compared to 2008 and 2012. For the time being I’m assuming the party breakdown in this poll is not skewed at all. I have a feeling they’re all going to show something similar.
Gerald A (bfbd30) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:45 pmYou understand it doesn’t matter, good men lie dead in the desert, betrayed by the people who sent them,
narciso (3fec35) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:46 pmpeople will die thanks to Obamacare, people who have
called attention to this, have lost their reputations, sometimes have risked losing their fortunes,
After what you saw with the IRS and OSHA, just directed at Englebrecht, you believe those numbers are genuine,
narciso (3fec35) — 4/29/2014 @ 7:50 pmObama has been around 44-45% before. He won’t fall any lower. Nonwhites and white liberals will NEVER leave him and make up 40% or a little more of the population. Obama will still do what he wants in the time he has left.
DN (fe3f16) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:45 pmbut it’s just lip service
they know that in public if they try and make the case that food stamp is some kind of for reals actual respectable president
people are gonna think they’ve got a grade A case of the simples
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/29/2014 @ 9:47 pmA majority think Crack Whore was handed a bill of damaged goods in Amerikkka and her economy.
A majority has likewise reached consensus that any self-respecting con artiste, untouched by the defect of industry, might reasonably be expected to have done something, anything positive with a bag full of lemons by this juncture.
gary gulrud (e2cef3) — 5/1/2014 @ 8:30 am