Obama's Right Track Wrong Track Numbers

After reading Ed's post on the new Rasmussen poll, I clicked through to the poll item. This is interesting in light of an April CBS item.

Thirty-seven percent (37%) say the country is heading in the right direction.

Now, back to April via CBS. It would appear the honeymoon is over and people have begun to move below the superficial, pegging Obama's policies to his popularity. He was able to escape that only so long as he didn't really have much in the way of policy, relying more on rhetoric to sustain his numbers. I guess talk is cheap after all.

WASHINGTON (CBS) ― For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.

Nobody knows how long the honeymoon will last, but Mr. Obama has clearly transformed the yes-we-can spirit of his candidacy into a tool of governance. His ability to inspire confidence - Mr. Obama's second book is titled "The Audacity of Hope" - has thus far buffered the president against the harsh political realities of two wars, a global economic meltdown and countless domestic challenges.

Comments

[mark l.]

the only thing they can do is cut taxes.

everytime we go with a stimulus, it will wind up being distributed by govt to smaller govt agencies. There is no direct vehicle for providing stimulus money to the prviate sector. (one could argue that the first stimulus saved autoworkers, but 100k for each 500,000 of those jobs saved (in the short run) is not a feasible means of getting anywhere near full employment.

only PRIVATE business growth will create jobs sufficent to employ 8+ million unemployed. Business will never grow if it's operating cost is contained in the limbo of waiting to see how much the cap and trade will cost them, how much govt health care will cost them, and how much their own taxes are going to go up. Obama is the wettest blanket I have ever seen.

My approval rating for obama? thru the 'effin' roof. He has confirmed every criticism given about his ability to govern and run an economy that was leveled at him during the campaign. He is going to drag the entire democrat/liberal system of running an economy/fiscal policy and sink it for the next twenty years. Is it worth the fall he is going to take this country on? absolutely.

We need at least 15-20 serious years of sound fiscal govt and it isn't going to occur without this looming disaster scaring the crap out of the public. People don't change until they get desperate. Obama is going to lead this country INTO some serious desperation.

The polling number that cannot go down?
Whose economy is it? bush or obama...

last I checked it was up to 39%. A year from now and that number is going to be in the sixties. Two years, and the number is in the 80's. If the economy hasn't shown signs of recovery by the midterms of 2010, obama will be a proud owner of an approval rating in the low 40's. Not a good climate to run as a dem.

[Ran]

Those styrofoam columns are all that supports Obama's statist agenda. They're squishy-soft under real load... no blue-state pill is going to keep Big Gov from failing.

Mark's comment is interesting. The Demos will sink if and only if Republicans (or Libertarians) become nationally recognized as the Party of VERY limited government, the party of re-Constitution, as it were. With the present flock of statist liberals running the Repube machine, it ain't gonna work. The Base must mutiny and re-take the helm.

It will take more than strong fiscal leadership: 15-20 years of genuine legislative roll-back and enforced limits on the size of gov't and enforced term-limits. DE-funding of many hundreds of presently state-funded entities, such as ACORN and NPR and the ACLU... and the ending of tax-free status of the "charities" that enable blatantly political lobbyists.

We're in a mad race: The Statists are pushing like H^LL to sour the economy and make as many people dependent on the Obiate of the Masses, even as self-identified "liberals" are depleting themselves into an irrelevant minority. Too, ACORN now has the money to cheat on a national scale... as in FrankenFraud. It's going to get ugly. The last thing the O-Bots need is an economic turn-about that liberates people from their drug.

[Reaganite Republican]

The misguided "stimulus" legislation has already crapped out: interested rates were bumped up, the dollar slid... and unemployment is soaring. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama's agenda has mortified almost every machine of job-and-growth creation in the country.

The One couldn't deliver the type of "temporary, targeted, and timely" bill that he promised for weeks. Irregardless of his beautified image in the press, Obama lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid... who hit the trough hard, while bickering like siblings.

But the paucity of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically... this legislation now looks to be a huge gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains... the Democrats could face a bloodbath in 2010.

One could make the argument that Obama knows his legacy will be in tatters by 2012.. and is ramming through as much of his far-left agenda as he can before the day comes when people cringe at the mere mention of his name... sure seems like it.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com

[mark l.]

the honeymoon has ended.

drudge has excerpts from a Colin Powell interview to be aired July 5 on CNN.

it appears that colin powell is among the 39% who believes it is obama's economy. 6 months and he obama is losing one his most important 'moderate/conservative' supporters?

if history does repeat itself, the house dems will make a move to expand the gravy train in the summer of 2010, hoping to buy up support in their districts to get them thru midterms. That worked out well for the gop in 2006...