The trend is strikingly visible in a single image from Rasmussen:
The green line is the people who like Obama. And it’s dropping like an asteroid. The red line is the people who don’t like Obama. And it’s going higher and higher. And the “-14” is the difference between the people who really like Obama from the people who really don’t like him. As you can see, the “really don’t like hims” have it.
At traffic lights, I’m a big fan of encountering green. Here, I really love the red.
Obama is already speaking about the possibility that he might be so politically gangrenous by 2012 that he won’t even bother to run.
“You know, if – if I feel like I’ve made the very best decisions for the American people and three years from now I look at it and, you know, my poll numbers are in the tank and because we’ve gone through these wrenching changes, you know, politically, I’m in a tough spot, I’ll – I’ll feel all right about myself,” Obama told CNN’s Ed Henry.
Obama went on to say:
“I’d feel a lot worse, if at a time of such urgency for the American people I was spending a lot of time thinking about how I could position myself to ensure reelection.
“Because if I were doing that right now, I wouldn’t have taken on health care, I wouldn’t be taking on things that are unpopular,” the president said. “I wouldn’t be closing Guantanamo. There are a whole series of choices that I’m making that I know are going to create some political turbulence. But I think they’re the right thing to do, and history will bear out my theories or not.”
All I can say is, “or not.” You’re “theories” are bogus, Barry.
Health care was bad enough, in terms of a blatant display of either ignorance or disavowal of the clear will of the American people. But when you look at the determination to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other terrorists on civilian trial in New York City in the face of overwhelming rejection of the electorate, you can see that Obama frankly doesn’t give a damn what the nation thinks.
As Rasmussen puts it:
Just 29% agree with the decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other terrorists suspects in a New York city courtroom. Only 14% believe terrorist suspects should receive the same legal rights in court as U.S. citizens.
We can add the fact that Obama hasn’t bothered to try to keep our citizens safe at home or our soldiers safe abroad (or at home for that matter). Between Afghanistan, Fort Hood, and the H1N1 debacle, you’ve seriously got to wonder.
But he’s not listening to you. He’s listening to George Soros and Andy Stern.
And there are portents of a total disaster for Democrats in 2010 if they continue on their suicidal path into the hard-core ideological liberal agenda they have been pursuing.
The Huffington Post (hardly even remotely CLOSE to being pro-conservative) has this:
NEW YORK — Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their House control.
Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in 2006 and 2008, helping the party claim a decisive majority as voters soured on a Republican president and embraced Obama’s message of hope and change. Many of the new Democrats are in districts carried by Republican John McCain in last year’s presidential contest; others are in traditional swing districts that have proved tough for either party to hold.
From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama’s $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.
Add to that the absence of Obama from the top of the ticket, which could reduce turnout among blacks, liberals and young people, and the likelihood of a highly motivated GOP base confused by the president’s proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt.
Taken together, it could be the most toxic environment for Democrats since 1994, when the party lost 34 House incumbents and 54 seats altogether. Democrats currently have a 256-178 edge in the House, with one vacancy. Republicans would have to pick up 40 seats to regain control.
Republicans hold a six point lead over Democrats in generic balloting – and have held a lead for four months. That hasn’t happened since the dinosaurs walked the earth. That’s actually even bigger than it sounds, given the fact that those identifying themselves as “Republican” are considerably more likely to vote than those identifying themselves as “Democrat.”
On my own view, the Democrats aren’t in 1994 trouble; they’re actually more along the lines of being in 1997 trouble.
1997 was the year of the Heaven’s Gate cult mass suicide, as members – all wearing the same kind of Nike sneakers – committed suicide in order to beam themselves onto the spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet.
As the Democrats pursue radical leftist policy after radical leftist policy, they are essentially saying, “Beam me up, Scotty!” just like their Heaven’s Gate intellectual forebears did before them. As the American people clearly are turning against the Democrats’ radicalism, the Democrats are calling for still more radicalism. It’s almost as if they’re saying, “If we guzzle more of our Kool-aid faster, we’ll be SURE to win.”
I was never a Bill Clinton fan. But one thing you could count on Slick Willie to do was whatever was politically best for Slick Willie. He was a liberal; but if the people demanded he be a moderate, he would suddenly discover that he was a moderate.
That isn’t Barry Hussein. He is a hard-core ideologue. People like me tried to warn you that the man who spent 23 years in a racist, anti-American, Marxist church would be such an ideologue.
Barry will destroy his presidency, and destroy the Democrat Party, in order to advance an agenda that is far more radical than the American people understood when they elected him.
Say hello to Obama’s little friend, the Cloward-Piven strategy.
Update, November 24:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).
Oh, oh, Democrats. It looks like independents utterly despise your Messiah.
Start Thinking Right 