26% approval for Obama on economy - Gallup

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Heard on Hardball. I know it's Gallup, but still, not too good.

[GSLevel9]

1. well... he's the Captain and the ships going down at the stern.

Blame the berg and the fog but ur still the Captain.... Jack.

[gateley]

3. True, regardless of who's at the helm, he gets the blame. nt

[bvar22]

15. Some Presidents were PROUD to take responsibility:

...maybe thats just an Old Fashioned thing,
like Social Security & Medicare.

Leadership! "The Buck Stops HERE!" NO Excuses!


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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[gateley]

2. Jobs. Most people can't look beyond that, nor need to. I don't

know what he can do to actually create jobs (and fast!) with so many of them having been shipped overseas, and the H1B Visa situation. :(

[Donnachaidh]

4. here's the link --

http://www.gallup.com/poll/149042/New-Low-Approve-Obama-Economy.aspx

[indepat]

5. RW solutions to RW-created problems will bite one in the ass every time with the

American people always being the big losers. :patriot:

[vi5]

6. Oh that will change....

I mean everyone's going to start being super excited when that deficit he's paid so much attention to starts to get paid down. I mean sure people are going to go "Hmmmm...lost my job...can't find a new job.....having trouble paying my mortgage and feeding my family.......but HEY...looky here. The deficit went down by .5%!!!! Morning in America again!!!!"

And of course this deficit reduction is going to happen because......uh....tax cuts?

[Broderick]

7. Well that's not good

Not good at all, and it is about jobs. Not only have average household wages gone down, but the number of unemployed is way up, and underemployed for that matter. Gallop's numbers on those two things, unemployment and underemployment, are much higher than the government released numbers basically because they account for those that have dropped off the unemployment benefit roles, and because they actually look at underemployment. I see the suffering first hand, and I have no solutions. I try to stay in business at best at this point, but it is difficult. Had to lay off several people last year and that is an amazingly hard thing to do for a person that treats his employees like family. Some have made more money than I have in the past several years, and the there is no bottomline to speak of. It was it is.

[tblue]

8. Ugh!

This is miserable. Doggone it! I tried to tell him! I have been contacting him since Ric Warren, urging the President to continue fighting as a populist protecting workers and the middle class. I tried to tell him! I really did in emails, letters, phone calls, faxes. He should've started with jobs instead of health care. Doggone it!!!!

[frazzled]

9. Yet he's at 41% job approval overall on the same Gallup poll

Just saying. Nobody is liking the economy, and it's fair that he gets blamed for it. But as I recall, the Congressional Republican approval is down to 13%, so it's all relative, isn't it.

[progressoid]

10. As James Gollum Carville said, "It's the economy, stupid."

[GSLevel9]

12. and it's STILL the economy, stupid!!! nt

[TwilightGardener]

17. Pretty sure Obama knows that. There is only so much he can do

when a large part of the legislative branch is intent on destruction.

[progressoid]

20. Or when he has stacked his cabinet and advisors with people

more interested in the welfare of corporations and wall street than us peons at the bottom.

[gkhouston]

11. I'd be interested in hearing the approval numbers for Congress, by party, on this topic.

I'm guessing there's lots of unhappy to spread around, but I wonder who's shouldering most of the blame.

[B Calm]

13. Well then, Obama is doing okay. . .

[kelly1mm]

19. The problem is that congressional approval numbers are MUCH

looser coralated to congressional reelection than Presidential approval numbers. Congress has not had an approval rating anywhere near the 85% reelection rate the last few cycles.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. Well, the banksters like him. nt

[TwilightGardener]

16. The Republibaggers crashed it. They said they would, and they did.

That's their only real way to get him out of office. Never again will they allow a Democrat to have a flourishing economy during his/her administration--they learned that after Bill Clinton.

[Bluebear]

18. People love Gallup here

127% of liberals support Obama!!