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February 9, 2011
Gallup's latest survey: Obama at 27% approval on handling deficit, 37% on economy
Topics: Political News and commentariesSo much for all that talk about Barack Obama's bounce in the polls after the lame-duck session. As Ed Morrissey aptly quips over at Hot Air, we can now officially proclaim that duck cooked, and the bouncing cat officially dead, or at least comatose. Gallup's latest survey on issues and presidential approval shows Obama below a majority on every single issue -- and seriously underwater in the highest priorities for voters in the last midterm election.
As Andrew Malcolm humorously puts it at the L.A. Times:
Just when Americans appeared to be buying the rhetorical hoh-hah about President Obama realizing he had drifted way too far to the left side of the country's political highway, now these silly folks who think you should only spend money you actually have come back and spank Obama for his inattention to this mushrooming federal deficit business.As Malcolm goes on to point out, apparently, Obama's State of the Union vocabulary switch from "spending" to "investing" failed to fool even fellow Democrats.You know, the one that's helped push the national debt up more than $3,000,000,000,000 since the Democrat first took his coat off in the Oval Office? The problem that has caused that debt to grow this much every second in recent months?
A new Gallup Poll out this morning finds nearly seven-in-ten Americans disapprove of ...
... Obama's handling -- or, rather, lack of handling -- of the federal deficit. That disapproval is up from 64% in November.
And you've got to just love the appropriateness of the image in Malcolm's piece ... a sinking ship (to the left, of course):
Posted by Richard at February 9, 2011 11:37 AM
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