WashPost/ABCNews Poll: Majority Of Americans (58%) Lack Faith In Obama

[Karmadillo]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/07/13/news/news-us-obama-poll.html?_r=1&hp

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they lack faith in President Barack Obama, according to a public opinion poll published on Tuesday.

The results of the Washington Post/ABC News poll are a reversal of what voters said at the start of Obama's presidency 18 months ago when about 60 percent expressed confidence in his decision making.

Confidence in Obama is at a new low but the poll found that his numbers are still higher than lawmakers of either major party four months ahead of the November congressional elections.

Asked how much confidence they have in Obama to make the right decisions for the country's future, 58 percent of respondents said "just some" or "none."

Sixty-eight percent expressed the same sentiments about Democrats in Congress and 72 percent said the same of Republicans.

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[geek tragedy]

1. Unrec'd to counter the purpose of this post

which is to push that number towards 100%.

[Pirate Smile]

5. His approval rating is 50% but that is no fun to emphasize so they wont.

[geek tragedy]

Maybe we should start a thread on

"We Will Not Be Silenced" to see if that gives them a thrill.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Transparent!

So much around here hoping we Dems lose and the Republicans take over.......

That's what is scary! :scared:

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[Ken Burch]

21. No one on the Left wants such an outcome.

It's only the Right that wants that.

And no one criticizes the administration from the left out of a desire to create Republican gains.

The idea is to get Democrats to ACT LIKE Democrats.

This isn't asking that much.

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[Ken Burch]

30. The ones who wanted the runner-up in 2008 to be nominated are to the admin's RIGHT

They can't be counted as part of "the Left".

There isn't anybody in the entire damn country that thinks HRC would have been more progressive than Obama on anything. Mainly, they want us to be killing MORE Iraqis and Afghanis, and to be cheering on the West Bank land thieves even more loudly.

[geek tragedy]

31. The OP would strongly disagree.

Supported Hillary in the primary, now talks like Ralph Nader.

Which is why some ideological criticism (yours for instance) is good faith and deserves respect. Other times, it's just opponents latching onto whatever they feel has traction.

[Karmadillo]

34. Meant to poster further down

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[tiptoe]

32. WaPo/ABC --like NYT/CBS,Fox,AP,CNN,NBC-- can't be trusted: MSM withholds Exit Poll results for 2008:

When will the MSM Release the 2008 Exit Poll Report?"

Who Owns the News?

See the effect of corporate-interested mainstream media suppression of national election results (no 2008 state exit poll data available; no Prelim Exit Poll data with Obama's true (> 20 mil) margin of victory):

1988-2004 MoE exceeded in 66 of 238 state exit polls (65 for Republican, 1 Dem)

[tiptoe]

47. Media Matters (July 17,2008): "ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama"

Comment by Media Matters, July 17,2008:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200807170011

"ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama..."

SUMMARY: ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran an article headlined "Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions," which did not mention Obama's 8-point lead over McCain. Later that day, ABC News and the Post issued a second release with additional poll results that stated: "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race."

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[noamnety]

6. spamming (nt)

[FrenchieCat]

7. Why? You don't like the list of accomplishments of the President's first 18 months?

Hate to see it, don't you?
But why? Isn't it policy changes that matter?
or is it?

[noamnety]

10. I'm just tired of scrolling through your identical cut and paste posts

that you are spamming multiple threads with tonight.

I guess that's easier for you than having an actual conversation about the content of OP's you don't like.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Actually, if you didn't notice, I actually comment in my posts......

Unlike those who scour the Internet for negative articles about Obama every morning,
to post here daily. I mean, what is a good day, if you can't tear folks down....
rather than holding them up? I understand the difference between the 2 mentalities,
and no matter how many times I post this post filled with links, those who never
praise this President, don't do it even then. Instead, they spend their time
telling others how they are simply spamming, and how that is a horrible thing,
compared to the other useless crap posted on DU 24/7.

What can I say other than... :eyes:
You sure are protesting a list of things that you should be proud of....
if only....

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[FrenchieCat]

61. And you are?

[sendero]

62. At least as important..

.. as a nobody like you.

[FrenchieCat]

63. And?

[Karmadillo]

64. And?

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[Confusious]

14. Obama discovers antibody that kills 91% of HIV strains (Scientific Government Discovery)?

That sort of research goes on for years. It could have started under Clinton and kept going under bush.

I don't know why you included that there, unless you meant it in the way my subject line presents it.

As an aside from that, if he doesn't do something about the banks, 100% of that is not going to count for sh?t.

If you don't want to hear that, fine. No whining when his approval is even lower.

[FrenchieCat]

16. It's the funding, stupid!

get it?

But I'm glad you found something to comment on!

And the President thanks you too for supporting him so that he could get all of what is listed done.
He said we are the ones that we have been waiting for, and I'm glad we no longer have to wait,
and instead will be kicking Republican ass this fall.....so that we may continue on....
cause to date, I believe we still have 24 months to do perhaps twice as much as that list.
Wouldn't that be great?

[Confusious]

18. The funding probably started under clinton

or before. Kept going under bush.

Continued under Obama.

You don't get through millions of antibodies in 1 1/2 years.

[FrenchieCat]

19. Ok.

Science Funding Survives Stimulus Cuts

Despite Congressional attempts to make science funding a casualty in their shrinking of the economic stimulus plan, the bill signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama contains more than $20 billion for science.

During his inaugural address, Obama promised to "restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/sciencefunding/#ixzz0tXS8ad00

[Confusious]

22. Yes so? It doesn't say anything about wether this was included

I would think that the CDC was more in charge, since diseases are what they do. The CDC budget doesn't get cut on a whim.

As I said before, it takes more then 1 and 1/2 years to go through millions of antibodies to find a few that work.

That sort of work takes decades.

P.s. After looking it up, it was the NIH, National Institute of Health. Same thing applies. Their budget doesn't get cut on a whim.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/scientists-discover-antibodies-that-could-help-create-aids-vacci/19546993/

"That makes today's announcement by the NIH all the more important -- and hopeful."

[gateley]

24. See? What a slacker! No wonder people have lost faith!

:sarcasm:

When I see or hear all that he's accomplished, I'm :wow:

I honestly don't know how he does all he does. Unlike Bush who, if I recall, said he usually headed 'home' from the 'Office' at about 5:00 every day, I have no doubt Obama is consumed by all he's working on 24/7.

Whether or not I agree with him (or even get mad at him sometimes), I haven't lost faith. On the contrary, my admiration for him continues to grow.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Bullshit clumping "just some" and "none" together...

Having some confidence in Obama does not mean you lack faith in him.

You might not have total faith - but it's still there. :eyes:

[Pirate Smile]

12. They can't go with his 50% approval rating. That wont earn them a Drudge link and send the screaming

monkeys flying over there to provide page hits for Marketing to use in selling their paid advertising. This works much better.

Next poll, I bet they say "(*Excluding all minorities, single women and young people) Obama's approval rating is 39%". OMG!!! (* notation to be buried in final paragraph or require going to the PDF to find).

[FrenchieCat]

15. They are working 24/7 to get it down as low as possible....

So yeah...50% is quite disappointing for those who'd love to see it lower....
which is why we have the New York "march you to war, and then act surprised we are at war and that we helped a lot" Times.

It is all so quaint, ain't it?

[Drunken Irishman]

27. Wow. I didn't even know he had a 50% approval rating. Time to post this again under that!

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. If not a straight ahead rational practical guy like Obama, then who?

Honest to god, if Obama isn't cutting it for the masses, then the whole thing is over, cause none of the assholes that are talking shit don't even hold a candle to him.

[Pirate Smile]

20. His approval number in the poll is 50%.

[kennedyphan]

44. Wasn't it 52% in the most recent WP poll, and 54% before that?

If I'm not mistaken.

[Rex]

23. I don't need faith, just results.

[BzaDem]

25. What a misleading headline. Great deal of confidence: 24. Good amount: 20. Some: 28. None: 29.

That means 72% of the country has at least some confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country's future. They just chose to lump "Some" and "None" to create the headline. What a joke.

[Pirate Smile]

29. OMG ABC & WP - 72% have between a great deal to some confidence in Obama.

Awesome. ;)

[noamnety]

33. Maybe they figured "less than a good amount" was not overall positive.

just guessing. :)

[BzaDem]

26. What a misleading headline. Great deal of confidence: 24. Good amount: 20. Some: 28. None: 29.

That means 72% of the country has at least some confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country's future. They just chose to lump "Some" and "None" to create the headline. What a joke.

[dionysus]

40. you're not saying someone might fib a little to make it look bad.. would you?

;)

[Karmadillo]

What was the fib?

nt

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[dionysus]

39. .

:nopity:

[Karmadillo]

51. +1

Made you look!

[paulk]

41. +1

and this thread highlights everything that's wrong with DU

[Karmadillo]

48. Excellent, excellent point. LOL, btw, to the mod(s) who deleted my post.

nt

[paulk]

54. I wonder what rule your post violated

that 3/4 of the other posts on this thread didn't...

[Karmadillo]

55. Well,

I did refer to a poster upthread who is routinely allowed to violate the rules of civility. Factually, I was right, but maybe it's verboten to point out that sort of thing. I also used the word "logorrhea", but I meant no harm. It just seemed to accurately describe the repetitive carping upstream designed to kill discussion. Maybe I should have said "reasoned discussion by my colleagues." My bad, I guess. Other than that, I thought I was being pretty reasonable in pointing out some of the weaknesses of my reasoning during the last election. I did say I hope Cindy Sheehan ran for President in 2012, so maybe it was that.

[paulk]

56. it's so hard to know these days

what with the "clarification" of the rules and all...

[geek tragedy]

42. You supported a card-carrying member of the DLC because

you thought the party needed to go at least as far left as Paul Wellstone.

Funny.

[Karmadillo]

49. Lesser of two evils, I said. You understand how that works, right?

nt

[xchrom]

36. Recommend

[Karmadillo]

37. Kick

nt

[HughMoran]

59. Stab

nt

[Karmadillo]

60. Thank you

nt

[dionysus]

38. and you're prancing with joy... happy days for you...

[Karmadillo]

50. Dionysus wants his name back. Nobody uses "prancing" anymore.

nt

[Cal Carpenter]

43. Well good, this is politics, not religion

Faith? Should have nothing to do with it. Better to judge him on policy than faith in hope and change or some other vague rhetorical crap.

[formernaderite]

45. It's the spending of the money

I hear a lot of my friends complaining about the over the top spending and deficits. It's not really Obama, I think most of us would like to see some tax increases and cuts in spending. I was never a fan of saving corporate interests by funding them. I have to say being a very frugal individual, I never supported the various stimulus plans. I would like to see more parity in the tax system.

[ecstatic]

46. This news should make many of you happy

Congrats!

[AngryOldDem]

52. No, not really.

I mourn another opportunity squandered by the Democrats and their leadership. No happy dancing here.

[Karmadillo]

53. +1.

nt