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Topic: Obama Job Approval
Rating Lower than Nixon´s |
Obama Job Approval
Rating Lower than Nixon´s
Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/29/2013 9:45:33 PM
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| According to Gallup, President Obama is tied with George W. Bush for most unpopular re-elected president since Gallup began measuring presidential job-approval in 1945. In fact, Gallup found that apart from Bush, "every president...has had a higher job-approval rating in the January following his reelection than Obama has." Obama´s approval rating is at 52. Think about it this way--following reelection, President Reagan´s approval numbers beat Obama´s by 11 points, President Eisenhower´s beat Obama´s by 21, and a much-derided Republican President named Richard Nixon
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/29/2013 9:48:42 PM (No. 9147416)
Say want they will about Richard Nixon, the fact is, he loved the USA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vivi, 1/29/2013 9:55:35 PM (No. 9147427)
Am I the only one who thinks none of this makes any sense? He was just reelected, evidently.
Actually almost everyone I talk to us having an extended what the heck moment.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Davids918, 1/29/2013 10:07:16 PM (No. 9147446)
People starting to realize the economy still stinks, middle-class jobs are nowhere to be found, prices for fuel, electricty, insurance and food are going up and liberal/progressive Democrats like Obama want them all to go higher.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
southron, 1/29/2013 10:30:42 PM (No. 9147496)
Obama was re-elected primarily because of media hype combined with low-information voters - media felt it would look bad if the first black president wasn´t re-elected so they praised him - but now they will begin to focus more on Hillary for president - their new crusade. Obama is already a thing of the past.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 1/29/2013 10:33:07 PM (No. 9147504)
The attention span of a lowinfo voter is that of a gnat.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/29/2013 10:45:21 PM (No. 9147526)
He´s at 52% with constant media blocking and tackling of any bad story or information. One can only imagine if?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
curious1, 1/29/2013 10:53:32 PM (No. 9147536)
He was reelected through massive vote fraud. Explains why you "don´t know anybody who voted for him".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56, 1/29/2013 10:55:16 PM (No. 9147537)
Amazingly (well, not really), these lowest job approval rates for Dear Leader(US) aren´t reported by the RAT infested media whores.
Remember (as Rush has replayed) when CNN´s Wolfie Blitzed ran his two or three hour show during George W.´s administration and would lead into and out of every commercial break with breaking news -- Bush´s latest ratings dropped one point!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 1/29/2013 11:06:11 PM (No. 9147549)
...considering the role of the modern media as a propaganda tool of the left, it speaks badly for the boy won-duh!, that the best he does is tie GW...
...with all the good things coming, this may be his high point...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 1/29/2013 11:56:25 PM (No. 9147603)
Never really cared much for Nixon and was elated when he resigned. Now, I feel somewhat badly about that. I never really cared for Two Won and would be elated should he resign. Not that that will happen any time soon
Lower than Nixon, ummm, perhaps d´rats should have a heart to heart with the dude
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/30/2013 1:45:15 AM (No. 9147697)
Makes one wonder about that November 6 election result, doesn´t it?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/30/2013 2:42:18 AM (No. 9147714)
He cheated to get elected, I am sure. The day of the election, he said he was confident he had the votes. Yeah, because he knew the fix was in.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/30/2013 4:33:20 AM (No. 9147744)
As high as 52%? I wonder if these polls poll the dead like the DNC does for votes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 1/30/2013 5:13:43 AM (No. 9147760)
O.K. - Before the election, Romney had overflow crowds coming to his rallies. BO had trouble filling up high school auditoriums. Polls were in Romney´s favor & BO was even acting like he wasn´t going to win. I´ll admit, I only hang with conservatives, but I didn´t hear much rah-rah enthusiasm for BO from dems, either. Now we hear that his approval rating is low. Following logic, the ONE thing that doesn´t fit in this scenario is his re-election. It had to be fraudulent. RNC - when are you going to do your duty & investigate VOTER FRAUD?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
StuckInNJ, 1/30/2013 8:37:59 AM (No. 9148019)
If most of the battleground states have Republican governors, should the Secretary of State be appointed by the governor and hence a Republican? Based on that, we should be pushing for removal of the voting machines and a return to paper ballots. I´m sure we have some hackers out there that can show the machines are vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. That should be enough to dump the machines.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/30/2013 9:13:26 AM (No. 9148125)
So, in concert with the Lib rags at the time, he MUST resign!
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