Poll Suggests Obama's Arrogance Is The Problem

I went looking for the full poll behind a claim that 68% of Americans oppose passing ObamaCare without Republican support. Via this article, I came across this 42 page pdf file with the poll data.

From Rasmussen on March 1st, current Party ID numbers stand at 35% D, 32% R, and 33% I. The AP-GFK poll uses 45% D, 34% R, and 20% I. It's possible ObamaCare's numbers are even worse than the AP-GFK poll suggests, but beyond that, there's even more troubling information inside. Obama is completely out of step with America's priorities right now.

The number of Democrats declined slightly for the fourth straight month. At 35.1%, the number of Democrats is down slightly from a month ago, down six percentage points from a year ago, and is at the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.

Also in February, the number of Republicans declined for the second straight month. At 32.1% the number of Republicans is down a point-and-a-half from a year ago but is in the middle of the range the party has occupied for the past two years.

Fifty-six percent believe America is on the wrong track, while only 38% say Right. And Obama's arrogance and single-mindedness puts him totally out of touch with the people. When it comes to issues, the Economy is number 1 for 92% of the people. Unemployment is number 2 at 84%; terrorism comes in 3rd at 83%; and the deficit is 4th at 75%.

Obama is losing when it comes to his approval numbers on the Economy and the Deficit, while breaking even on Employment. He's only winning on health care by 3 points. But health care is number 5 in importance at 73%. Consequently, he has bypassed most all of America's meat and potato issues and isn't even clearly winning their support on his key agenda item. If we adjust the Party ID numbers to conform to Rasmussen's latest, it only gets worse.

Whether it was his classroom days, his time on the South-side of Chicago, or if it's just his ego, Obama seems to still believe he can walk up to a microphone and convince people what's important to them. But unlike his college students, Americans aren't chasing grades from Obama, they give them when it comes to the White House.

Even Bob Herbert found himself having to point it out. But Obama and his inner circle either still don't get it, or, they can't give it up out of ideology, or because he has accomplished so little else. Whatever the case may be, as Obama embarks on yet one more redundant roadshow to push health care, he isn't even talking about something America cares about that much in relative terms. And that's why he and the Democrats are doomed to fail, whether they pass the bill, or not. Even if they do, the most pressing problems for Americans continue to go too long ignored. No WH, or political party can survive the type of unnecessary calamity The One's over-inflated ego has brought about.

Instead of focusing with unwavering intensity on this increasingly tragic situation, making it their top domestic priority, President Obama and the Democrats on Capitol Hill have spent astonishing amounts of time and energy, and most of their political capital, on an obsessive quest to pass a health care bill.

Comments

[SacTownMan]

Xerxes knows best!!

Like Palin said;

"How's that Hope and Change working out for ya!"

The Democratic party has been taken over by a bunch of power hungry leftist's that could care less about what you or I think!

Although they are now in power it won't be for long!

2012 will be the end of the trolls run, if they can't pass their agenda by then they know it will never happen!

The best part is they will buried under their rocks for at least 10 years if not longer!

The bad part is they are on a campaign to transform the Republic that may take decades to fix!!

[Henry]

_But Obama and his inner circle either still don't get it, or, they can't give it up out of ideology, or because he has accomplished so little else._

Or, maybe, d) all of the above.

Isn't it possible (even, gasp, probable) that the One is driving so hard for a signature/legacy achievement because he's all too aware of his own...ablities...and he's trying desperately to pre-salvage his Presidential legacy?

[Huey]

But, it's for our own good.

[Lester]

I wonder how much of the "approve" group are afro-americans that also to this day still think OJ was framed by the white LAPD?

[Tully]

I think there's a bigger point here: Obama and crew DO NOT CARE what the people think. They just want their leftist statist agenda passed into law, and figure that no price is too high to get it. Because once they've gotten those powers in the hands of the bureaucracy, the bureaucracy will not let go of them. No matter what *the people* want.

[grubner]

Maybe if we want to understand President Obama better we should study his father a bit more. Ask yourself how his ego and politics served him.

It seems to me that the man accidently impaled himself on his own sword for his overly erudite political beliefs.

[Renaissance Clothing]

What Pres. Obama showed is not arrogance but rather portraying a leader who is firm and straight-forward

[Steve]

My son is a hedge fund guy who works with some of the most arrogant people on the Street--not surprising considering the territory. As we already know, the Street harbors many of the ultra rich lefties with egos 10 standard deviations above the mean. So one of biggest of the Bigs is at a fund raiser for Big O and after the event had only one comment, "He is the most arrogant person I have ever met, bar none."

[GM Roper]

RC: "What Pres. Obama showed is not arrogance but rather portraying a leader who is firm and straight-forward."

I'm having a really tough time thinking that you typed that either with a straight face or not understanding, let alone seeing, the irony.

[alanstorm]

Dear RenCloth,

Nope, it's arrogance with ignorance. Barry O. is the premier example of the stereotypical liberal - absolutely without a clue on every subject, but unalterably convinced of his own brilliance.

As an aside, you might have a chance - slim, but a chance - of making your case if you could learn to construct a coherent sentence.

[Reasoner]

Obama's father (and mother) abandoned him. He is desperately trying to compensate for that abandonment by projecting his own need for a parent that "will always be there" onto a massive government healthcare "nanny."

Just as his narcissism is a front for his bottomless pit of insecurity. If he has to let these things go, then he will collapse as an identity. So he must be right, and he must carry on: his sanity requires it. Too bad his quest will result in massive suffering at the hands of our governmental overlords...

[Fred]

I don't like the thuggery Obama his symbolically horsewhipping America into...

[ET]

Obama practices the old adage, "if you can't be right, be CERTAIN."

[Terrye]

I heard today that the monthly deficit for February hit a record, at $220 billion. When the Democrats took control of Congress the yearly deficit was about $168 billion.

[gsr]

Grow government, demonize free enterprise. Gee, I wonder why there are no jobs - other than government jobs (democrat voting bloc).

[MarkJ]

I'm waiting for an audience member in one of Obama's "healthcare rallies" to finally stand up and ask him, "Mr. President, what part of 'F*** No' don't you understand? The 'F***' or the 'No'"?

[JayS]

As long as Obamacare doesn't pass, I think that ignoring the economy has been a good thing.
How many more stupid ideas like the stimulus, Cash for Clunkers, first homebuyer credits of $8K and a ton of earmarks for congress critters do you think we'd have?

OK, we'll get the earmarks.
But if those guys try to help the economy, they will just screw it up some more.

[smitty]

I differ with you on the point rather markedly, Dan:
http://theothermccain.com/2010/03/10/our-problems-exceed-barack-obama/

[Louie]

I think it falls under the "I might be lost, but I'm making good time" way of thinking.

[el polacko]

the very first time i ever saw barack i said "what an arrogant pr*ck !!"
it may have taken a year, but i'm glad that some others are catching on.
i realize that there are all sorts of psychological reasons stemming from his upbringing that are responsible for his falsely inflated ego, but tell that to dr.phil or oprah. he has no business being in the whitehouse.