"Americans Have Had It with Obama and Congress" --Atlantic Wire

[KoKo]

Allie Jones 4:52 PM ET

According to Tuesday's Quinnipiac poll, President Obama just posted his lowest approval rating ever. Only 39 percent of Americans approve of the commander-in-chief; 54 percent disapprove. When it comes to Congress, people are even less confident. Tuesday's Gallup poll shows that just 9 percent approve of Congress, also the lowest approval rating in Gallup's 39-year history of asking the question.



Gallup poll respondents find Democrats and Republicans in Congress to be doing an equally crappy job. Americans "favor" Dems by one percent, as shown in the table at right. The table also illustrates that despite the fact the shutdown is over, Congress' favorability rating continues to drop.

For the president, Obamacare's troubled rollout and his "keep your plan" misrepresentation seem to have hit the hardest. A full 60 percent disapprove of Obama's handling of health care policy, and 52 percent find him to be untrustworthy. He's hit George W. Bush lows now, which we warned last week could happen.

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[JaneyVee]

1. Quinnipiac was voted worst pollsters of 2012.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. +1

[Skip Intro]

7. Pew and Gallup show the same thing.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

[ReverendDeuce]

11. Need I remind you of "unskewed polls"? We know how well that sort of thought worked for Mittens n/t

n/t

[Scuba]

2. 54% disapproval means a lot of people who voted FOR you, now disapprove.

Could it be they want you to stand up for them? To stop trying to appease the unappeasable?

Or do you think they want you to move further right?

[WillyT]

4. Yep...

[bluestate10]

6. The President's approval will rebound when the ACA website fix is finished in two

weeks. So, don't get to anticipatory. You are likely to end up having a horrid 2014.

[WillyT]

8. Two Weeks ???

I love that systemic software problems can be solved by Presidential decree.

I work for the State of California... let me tell ya...

it ain't true.

[Mass]

12. It will take more than 2 weeks for people to be less irritated.

I live in MA, the state that should have had no problem.

Guess what, some genius decided that everybody who was already on the exchange has to re-register, provide all the information once again, and told people to do that 2 months before the deadline. Guess what. The website is overloaded and crashes. So my husband will fill the 38 paper pages so that they can be received in time to be sure he will still be insured in January.

And, as I said, this is the state that has the least problems. We already had extended Medicaid and an exchange that was running. So, I do not want to imagine how it is in states that had nothing.

So, let's be clear. If people like me, who were 100 % behind the exchange once it became clear this was the best we would get, are irritated, imagine what people who were already on the fence must feel like.

It will take more than 2 weeks to solve this. Of course, the GOP will help by its stupidity, but it would be nice if something was done to help people.

[KoKo]

16. No one has mentioned that. I think that's incredible that Massachusetts Romney Care

folks now have to go all through this AGAIN! Are you sure of this?

[Mass]

18. Yes. Commonwealth care closes and people have to re-register to the new exchange.

The policy offered by the exchange are basically the same as before, so my husband should be able to get the same insurance at a similar, but he needs to do the work once again (considering we did it this summer, it is irritating).

[FirstLight]

17. or could it be

that the people are tired of feeling like our government holds us in contempt? What about NSA surveillance? what about the prosecution of journalists like James Risen? What about AG Holder supporting a brief filed earlier this year that takes away the power of the fourth estate?

He rejected any idea of a reporter’s first amendment right to protect a source in criminal proceedings. The brief described a working reporter who hears classified information during an interview with a government official as the equivalent of being a witness to a crime, under the Espionage Act of 1917...

This is top of my list, but I was pissed at our POTUS for NOT prosecuting the Banksters, NOT standing up for the poor and all the other shit he promised us would really happen this time around...and it hasn't.

People are sick of the shell game

[sabrina 1]

23. Yes, people ARE sick of not being represented, of the protection, and WORSE, the rewarding

of Wall St criminals, not to mention War Criminals. And look what all the 'compromising' has done. Republicans still refuse to give Dems any credit for abandoning their base and catering to them.

The country would respect someone who just did the right thing and didnt worry about the consequences.

No one expects to get everything they want, but when the major issues like applying Rule of Law to the top 1% are ignored and it is so transparent that the criminals who collapsed the economy get bailed out while their victims are jobless and homeless, it's amazing the polls are as good as they are even at 9%.

[woo me with science]

22. +1

[TwilightGardener]

3. And yet, it's due to the screw-up of a well-intended effort to provide health coverage

for everyone, and not a wholly-unnecessary war that left thousands of American soldiers in graves, or disabled. Obama has to be perfect, even in trying to do something GOOD, or his approval levels sink to that of the mass-murdering Bush/Cheney regime. Clinton totally screwed the pooch in his second term. Yeah, tell me there's no racism.

[okaawhatever]

10. We didn't have the press lying and bashing everything either of those president's did either. Obama

faces unique challenges. if we don't get campaign finance reform, it will be favorability pre-and post-Citizens United.
Racism plays a part, but he went after the big money folks. They're retaliating in a big way. Clinton went after health-care reform and the following congressional election was not good for the dems.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Racism plays a role, it's hard to say how much--but what that racism does is

add an extra layer of people who will never approve of him, on top of the people who simply hate him for being a Democrat or hate his policies, personality, job performance, whatever. So he is operating within narrower margins, with less benefit of the doubt, than Clinton or any other President. Any serious mistake and he plummets. He has not actually MADE any big mistakes until the ACA rollout--the whole Benghazi thing was just a terror attack, it didn't hurt him except to the people who already hated him. That IRS thing hasn't been tied to him, and isn't even all that politically unfair. Planned intervention in Syria and the Snowden stuff hurt him a little, but that couldn't really be helped. He is a good man, but not perfect, and unfortunately, he pretty much has to be perfect and will be judged more harshly.

[Mass]

9. Seems to me this is a self-inflicted crisis.

The GOP is horrible and their leaders have lost the reins and control nothing. They follow.

Congressional Democrats are tone deaf when they speak to the general public and behave as if they were referring a football game. It is people's life they are playing with. May be looking as if they cared (BTW, where is the Voting Rights Act? Where are bills that will really impact people's life? Good to see that they are thinking of rising minimum wage -- not that it is going to happen -- but we need a lot more bills like that).

The White House seems engulfed in scandals of all sorts, most of them self-inflicted (Who is the idiot who thought saying "you can keep your healthcare" and writing it on the white house website was a good idea. Anybody who had a minimum interest in the issue knew it would not be the case. ). Not to think about the website, and the veteran website, and the spying crisis, ... The lack of public answer on these issues gives the impression to people who are just ambivalent about Obama that he is not trustworthy.

Of course, I agree with the WH and Congressional Democrats, but the truth is that government is not about immobility. And right now, it is immobility. Clearly a number of people think it is more the GOP fault, but it hurts Obama as well, particularly as it gives the impression nobody wants to talk to nobody.

[socialist_n_TN]

14. Your last sentence pretty much sums it up for me too.....

The botched rollout and the "surprise" of insurance companies fucking over their potential customers has tarred everybody with the same brush to one extent or another. Congress is worse of course, but Congress started out worse.

As an aside, 9%? That's pretty bad. I'm a commie and I think that Marxists have higher ratings than that.

[1000words]

15. LOL ... When Pres. Obama's numbers improve, polls good.

Now, polls bad.

[woo me with science]

19. K&R Enough of the looting.

Warren in 2016.

[JoePhilly]

20. Get Americans to dislike the government ... reduce turnout ... and give the GOP a chance.

That's about sums it up.

[ProSense]

21. Luckily Obama isn't up for re-election.

These polls likely reflect the reaction to the bogus reports on Benghazi, phony health care stories and the RW talking points.

The number of people who buy into media BS is astounding. When the air clears, Congress' approval will still suck, and the President's will recover.

Those up for re-election in 2014 are going to be spinning their asses off.