Hope!
Nearly half the people who once considered themselves supporters of President Barack Obama don’t anymore.
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A new poll released today by Bloomberg News finds all that hopey-changey stuff is rapidly turning to disappointment and disenchantment. While 47% of all voters approve of Obama’s job now, ominously for 2012 only 36% of onetime Obama supporters now approve.
Alas, Hillary Clinton appears to be the biggest beneficiary.
— Which means we’re likely to see the GOP establishment — its finger firmly on the pulse of, well, itself — try to go “centrist” come 2012.
The question is, what are we going to do about it…?
I presume that nearly half of Obama’s supporters have recently discovered that he is half black? What other explanation could there be?
Well, I’m not so sure that in 2012 the new “center” won’t have shifted back to the right an appreciable amount. That all depends on folks elected this November keeping thier promises. Which makes the whole GOP “pledge” useful as a scorecard of sorts.
But I could just be livin’ up to the squishy, establishment-lovin’, sellout, RINO pollyana that I’ve apparently become lately…
I read earlier that a Fox poll in Ohio had him around 58% disapprove and 33% approve. Ouch.
There is apparently a disconnect in the public opinion over the two questions “like Obama as a person?” (favorable) and “like Obama’s policies?” (unfavorable), as Dr K doesn’t fail to cite at least once a week. The contradiction doesn’t seem to go much further than Frey’s “good man” sally early on, but still puzzles me, to the extent that Obama as a person is everyday revealed to be nothing he made himself out to be (along his partners Axelrod, Plouffe and the Press) during the campaign. Ordinary human nature tends — to my reckoning — to turn swiftly on liars and charlatans once exposed, yet here the echoing guilt of the plight of the black man appears to over-ride ordinary sensibilities.
– A shock poll on Drudge this morning has 85% seriously upset about the state of the economy. So it took screwing with everyone’s money to finally get Americans to wake up and smell the roses. That leaves the 15% that represents the true numbers of the Left exposed. They made the biggest of mistakes when they got into peoples livelihood and jobs.
– We told them so, but they weren’t interested and “knew better”. Now its pay for the ticky time.
I have earlier concerns than 2012. We have enormous budget battles starting up immediately in the lame duck session and running through the next cycle.
Will they stand firm on reducing spending? Will they take funding action against the EPA and Obamacare? And through it all, will they speak honestly to the public about America’s fiscal situation?
I’m not sure how confident I am but that’ll at least be a serious of opportunities to see who is truly on our side and who will just try to steal our votes by putting on the same uniform.
Given up, the man says, ya hear that Ma?
I mean, his base has given up on all of great Occomplishments? Like his great tax poli- Then there’s the health care refor… No, no there’s his belief in American Exceptina… Given up you say?
Stanley Kurtz, hising his book’s skirt, shows a little leg.
“Well, I’m not so sure that in 2012 the new “center” won’t have shifted back to the right an appreciable amount. ”
Yes. The new ‘center’ will be much more fiscally conservative than the ‘center’ was in 2006-2010 era.
That era will be refudiated.
Is “refudiate” some hip new Intarwebs coinage that I missed? I keep seeing it bandied about by people who I heretofore considered literate.
Sarah Palin used it and now they use it as a mocking term, Squid.
Ah. She really does live in their heads, doesn’t she?
BECAUSE OF THE FREE RENT!
Then we replace the establishment.
That is, if we want something different to happen. If not – don’t challenge them at all in primaries. That will ensure they stay right where they are.
2012 will be interesting. I was involved in a local tea party at its inception, but quit because I sense too much “Republicans can’t do wrong” mentality. That is nonsense. They helped the Democrats spend our way into our economic mess. Most sitting Republicans don’t have fiscal conservatism credentials or “constitution” credentials. They are phoneys. If the Republicans gain seats in 2010 and then proceed to “blow it”, the pendulum will shift back to the Democrats, like it has done before.
I will know Americans are serious about change when they start electing true outsiders with no political ties, and keep turning over Washington every election. Somebody needs to take a pin and burst the bubble of arrogance surrounding DC. Politicans need to learn that no job is safe – *especially* not a politician’s.
#14 Oh look, a Paulbot. How quaint.
Third parties will not cut it. If, in your scenario, neither party meets the necessary criterion to sucessfully and fundamentally reform governance, the obvious answer is to reform one party or the other. Which party is more accepting of internal party structural change?
Gulermo,
I voiced the same skepticism of the idea that both parties were equally as bad, and as a result have become a candy-assed, establishment GOP sellout, RINO squish to some folks, even though my long held positions have never changed. Just so you’d know…
No, it backfired on their part, she punctuated the opposition, to the GZM, in the non hysterical tones
that Newt failed to do
The question is, what are we going to do about it…?
Option 1) Tar, feather, rails, corrigible politicians ridden around thereon.
Option 2) Torches, pikes, incorrigible heads spitted upon.
#16, #17:
Exactly. Replace the establishment in one of the parties with one that is more to your liking. It is difficult, but not quite as difficult as forming a third party and having that replace one of the two major parties.
Isn’t that what the primaries are for? Before the advent of primaries, you could allege that third parties were necessary because the candidates were whomever the party apparatus picked, but now I think that you can turn one or the other party into something you want if you have the votes.
Susan – I too have encountered people that think all problems will be solved as soon as Republicans are elected. They are not as bad as the goofs who thought Obama would magically solve everything, but they are falling into the same trap. There are years of work to be done.
Get real. Obama is polling better than both Reagan and Clinton during the same point of their presidencies.
And is leading his party to a bigger midterm loss than Reagan and Clinton put together.