Remember a few weeks ago when I asked if Obama had reached his tipping point?
Well, even then his overall approval numbers were in the mid 50s. As of today they dropped to 49%. And that probably doesn’t show much impact from “GatesGate,” the Hahvahd Professor who was arrested for disorderly conduct being black.
With his signature health care legislation now threatening to tear a rift in the Democrat party, and with his effort to sell the country on health care turning into a national debate on race relations, it is hard to see his approval going higher anytime soon.
I had predicted that Obama’s administration would become ineffective by August 31. I’m gonna stick with that prediction. By then, if this country has any sense whatsoever, we should see Cap and Tax go down in flames in the Senate and Obamacare getting nerfed to near pointlessness in the House, and most of the folks in Congress will no longer fear Obama’s “mandate” and instead many will be actively distancing themselves from him in order to get re-elected in 2010.
I hope so anyway. But I’m an optimist, so I’m predicting Obama’s complete fall into irrelevence by then.
I gotta have something to keep me going. 
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHe’s lost the large majority of independents. He lost almost all of the Republicans who were going to give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s lost a small number of democrats.
Unless something major happens before the break, I think he’s toast. And, it’s entirely possible that 2010 will be a repeat of 1994.
One can only hope…
“He lost almost all of the Republicans who were going to give him the benefit of the doubt.”
let me fix that
“He lost almost all of the RINOs who were going to give him the benefit of the doubt.”
Heh, reggie…
You, like many, tend to confused “Republican” with “Conservative.”
Any “republican” is a “republican in name only,” as it only signifies membership in one of the two major parties — not in any fashion necessarily reflective of the members’ political beliefs.
(I suppose if you subscribe to each and every plank in the Republican political platform, you would be a “Republican in fact” rather than merely a “Republican.”)
How could anyone, who claimed to be a Republican have any doubts about Obummer to start with?
He has pushed his radical, liberal/socialist agenda from day one.
Almost 10% of Obama’s voters were registered Republicans (again, not all “R’s” are conservative any more than all “D’s” are liberals).
Once elected, you have a significant number of people who are “R’s” who know no more about politics than a sun-baked rock. (The same is true of “D’s.” There is, in my opinion, only a relatively small percentage of voters (of either label) who actually know anything about anything — and less about politics.) Those people just “hope” that the new President will “do good things,” without having a clue as to what the new President is likely to do or even what those “good things” might be.
So, in the beginning, every President has high approval ratings — very high from those in the party in which he finds himself and a significant percentage of those in the opposing party.
This never lasts for long.
(But, perhaps, you asked a different question, I think… “How could anyone … have … doubts … to start with?” Well, if the only thing you listened to was the MSM and the debates, one would come away with the impression that Obama was a moderate, perhaps even a conservative. And, frankly, “R’s” have no corner on researching their candidates’ positions or records….)
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