Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April.
His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president. Mr Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 per cent approval rating.
The bad polling news came as Mr Obama returned to the campaign trail to prevent his Democratic party losing two governorships next month in states in which he defeated Senator John McCain in last November’s election.
Jeffrey Jones of Gallup explained: “The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.
“Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10 per cent.”
Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey is in severe danger of defeat while Democrats are fast losing hope that Creigh Deeds can beat his Republican opponent in Virginia. Twin Democratic losses would be a major blow to Mr Obama’s prestige.
Campaigning for Mr Corzine in Hackensack on Wednesday night, Mr Obama delivered a plea that almost seemed as much for himself as the local candidate: “I’m here today to urge you to cast aside the cynics and the sceptics, and prove to all Americans that leaders who do what’s right and who do what’s hard will be rewarded and not rejected.”
Mr Obama is also facing widespread criticism for his drawn-out decision-making process over what to do next in Afghanistan.
Republicans sense Mr Obama is in a vulnerable position and this week saw the return to the public stage of his perhaps most vehement opponent – Vice-President Dick Cheney.
In a blistering speech on Wednesday night, he accused Mr Obama of failing to give Americans troops on the ground a clear mission or defined goals and of being seemingly “afraid to make a decision” about Afghanistan “The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger,” Cheney said at the Center for Security Policy in Washington.
“Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.”
He hit out at Obama aides who suggested that the Bush administration had failed to weigh up conditions in Afghanistan properly before committing troops.
“Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.”
(Source: Telegraph UK)
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People need to start really waking up to the disaster known as Obama. You need to let your reps know they MAY NOT vote for any bill he is for. His policies are what we hope FAILS!!
Baruch mashpil gei’im.
Obama hasn’t been in office for 50 years!!
zol er gen in dred –oi! oi! eved ki yimloich
#3: No, he hasn’t, but it sure feels like it.
mark levin, as much respect and gratitude that I have for you let’s be realistic here. Does anyone think that Charles Schumer, Anthony Weiner, Kirsten Gillibrand, et. al. would do anything but vote with Obama?
What we need to do is send a very loud and clear signal on election day. If there is no Republican candidate in your local election, than vote for the conservative candidate. Send a clear message to Jay Jacobs the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party!
#3 it sure feels like 50 years
#1 Mark Levin
You are the worst kind of American – one who believes in partisan politics above all. Why would you encourage a representative to “vote for any bill that he is for” without weighing the merits of the bill? If Obama proposes a bill to fund more yeshivot, you would be against it because it came from him? Your blindness and divisiveness symbolizes everything that’s wrong with this country.
#7, there is no message to send, I regret to say. A politician is a politician. At best, other than Guiliani, and maybe Joe Lieberman, they have become members of the same club: Money talks and the constituency walks.
A famous Jewish songwriter from Forest Hills, Queens once wrote a lyric with regards to politics: “Laugh about it, shout about it, when you got to choose; every way you look at it you lose.”
#1, how can you be an expert in recognizing disasaters when you could not recognize the disaster was Bush/Cheney?
After undercutting our labor with promoting illegal alienship from Mexico, creating incentives for middle level jobs to do business from countries overseas, promoting theft of capital from Wall Street, promoting a drawn out, failed military effort in Iraq for corporate profit and contracts, THANK HEAVEN, Obama is only a disaster in words, not in action like Bush/Cheney.
Obama SHOULD be impeached for his ideas and a foreign policy stance that is clearly not befitting of an American President. But if one thinks clearly, they cannot hold Bush/Cheney in high esteem or regret that Senator Do-Nothing McCain should have been in office. America resembles what Arizona has looked like for a long time.
Moshiach is truly the answer. And may he come speedily. L’havdil, In the meantime, Rudy will do.
the obamas and the democrats will self distract will all ways blame others
veryinteresting (#10), even though the previous line mentions a “candidates’ debate”, the song isn’t really about politics.