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August 23, 2009
Rasmussen: Obama Hits new Low
Gene Schwimmer
Two new lows, actually. Today, Rasmussen reports that the president's Approval Index (the number of likely voters who strongly approve of his performance, minus those who disapprove) has fallen to -14. That's two points below his previous low of -12, set on July 30.
The percentage of likely voters who Strongly Approve of Obama's performance, 27%, also marks a new low and that's not all. As Rasmussen notes:
Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President's performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President's own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time. [emphasis added]
Surely, the health care issue (pickle? debacle?) accounts at least partly for the Democrats' anemic thumbs-up. But because these are Democrats, it is interesting to contemplate whether the president's increasingly weak standing within his own party is stems from liberals' frustration that the so-called public option has hit a brick wall, or from moderates' dissatisfaction with the plan itself.
Or maybe, increasingly, like the rest of us, they're just not that into him.
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