Obama's Current Approval Rating Is The Ugliest Since Nixon

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Business Insider:

President Barack Obama is ending his fifth year in office with the lowest approval ratings at this point in the presidency since President Richard Nixon, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.

Obama's approval rating in the poll stands at 43%. By comparison, President George W. Bush had a 47% approval rating at the end of the fifth year of his presidency. And all other Post-World War II presidents had approval ratings above 50% — with the exception of Nixon, who, amid the Watergate scandal, had a dreadful 29% approval rating.

The brutal numbers underscore what has been something of a lost year for the President. His approval ratings have been plunging recently as a result of the botched implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In the Washington Post/ABC poll, only 34% approve of how Obama is handling his signature health law's implementation.

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Mr. Unpopularity.

[nickydog]

Good.

[Valin]

A word of caution...this to may very well pass.

[nickydog]

I know. But I can at least enjoy it while it lasts.

[Valin]

I know. But I can at least enjoy it while it lasts.

[clearvision]

A word of caution...this to may very well pass.

 

[Draggingtree]

Obama: Less Popular Than Syphilis

Posted on | December 17, 2013 | 13 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

OK, maybe the headline is exaggerating a bit, but Obama’s poll numbers have definitely cratered in the past ten weeks. These two headlines were an interesting contrast of how the polls get spun:

[Valin]

The Reboot

Barack Obamas at the lowest point of his presidency. Can John Podesta save him?

GLENN THRUSH

December 17, 2013

 

When President Barack Obamas chief of staff, Denis McDonough, approached John Podesta a few weeks ago about taking over the high-aggravation job of White House counselor, the biggest concern wasnt that he would say no. After all, he had already done so twice before. Obamas team was more worried that Podesta would say no and that word of his rejection would leak, making the White House look feckless and desperate at the end of Obamas brutal fifth year in office. So, the circle of people in the know was kept to a small handful; it was so closely held that even the perpetually plugged-in DavidsObama confidants Axelrod and Plouffewerent consulted.

 

That Obamas team couldnt afford to suffer even the minor embarrassment of a possible Podesta rebuff is a measure of just how precarious things have gotten less than a year after the presidents triumphant second inaugurationand how much the White House could use the services of Podesta, the closest thing Washington has to a turnaround specialist for wayward Democratic commanders in chief.

 

But despite the respectful coverage that greeted the news of Podestas appointment when the White House put it out last week, he will find that saving Obama is a mission easier undertaken than accomplished given the magnitude of the presidents problemsstarkly illustrated by a Tuesday Washington Post-ABC News poll showing Obamas approval rating at 43 percent, nine points below where he stood a year ago. Asking anyone, especially a man who hasnt worked in the White House in more than a decade, to help rescue a presidency is a near-impossible task. But here was Obamas team asking anyway, hoping Podesta will act as a catalyst to turn things around ahead of the 2014 midterms.

 

(Snip)

[nickydog]

The Reboot

Barack Obamas at the lowest point of his presidency. Can John Podesta save him?

GLENN THRUSH

December 17, 2013

 

When President Barack Obamas chief of staff, Denis McDonough, approached John Podesta a few weeks ago about taking over the high-aggravation job of White House counselor, the biggest concern wasnt that he would say no. After all, he had already done so twice before. Obamas team was more worried that Podesta would say no and that word of his rejection would leak, making the White House look feckless and desperate at the end of Obamas brutal fifth year in office. So, the circle of people in the know was kept to a small handful; it was so closely held that even the perpetually plugged-in DavidsObama confidants Axelrod and Plouffewerent consulted.

 

That Obamas team couldnt afford to suffer even the minor embarrassment of a possible Podesta rebuff is a measure of just how precarious things have gotten less than a year after the presidents triumphant second inaugurationand how much the White House could use the services of Podesta, the closest thing Washington has to a turnaround specialist for wayward Democratic commanders in chief.

 

But despite the respectful coverage that greeted the news of Podestas appointment when the White House put it out last week, he will find that saving Obama is a mission easier undertaken than accomplished given the magnitude of the presidents problemsstarkly illustrated by a Tuesday Washington Post-ABC News poll showing Obamas approval rating at 43 percent, nine points below where he stood a year ago. Asking anyone, especially a man who hasnt worked in the White House in more than a decade, to help rescue a presidency is a near-impossible task. But here was Obamas team asking anyway, hoping Podesta will act as a catalyst to turn things around ahead of the 2014 midterms.

(Snip)

 

 

That was interesting, but fills me with anxiety that Podesta might be successful.