Independents decide US elections.  Last year they were tired of the Bush, spending & wars and turned against the GOP.  The GOP had forgot they were Republicans and spent like Democrats.  They put Obama & the Dems comfortably over the top.

Now the Independents appear to be experiencing ‘buyers remorse’.  Polling shows them turning against Obama and the Democrats.

They may love him in Norway, but President Obama is rapidly losing favor with the independents that boosted him to the White House.

His support among self-described independent voters has fallen from about 73 in February to just 45 this month, according to the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index.

The survey found that some 44% of independents say his handling of the economy is poor or unacceptable vs. only 29% that gave him high marks. Similarly negative results were found on handling the budget (48%-23%); health care policy (54%-24%); Iran (38%-28%); Afghanistan (38%-25%); and foreign policy overall (38%-32%).

Economic woes, which helped propel Obama to the White House, are now working against him. Unemployment has hit a 26-year-high 9.8%, and is expected to keep rising. Since he signed the $787 billion stimulus bill in February, the U.S. has lost 2.7 million jobs.

“It comes down to the ability to create jobs,“ he said. “People are running out of patience.“

Independent seniors also have been turned off by parts of Democrats’ health care proposal.

“They don’t like it because of the (proposed) $500 billion in cuts to Medicare,“ Mayur said.

He won 52% of the independent vote last year vs. 44% for GOP candidate John McCain, according to CNN exit polls. Independents accounted for 29% of overall voters.

He also beat McCain 60%-39% among self-described moderates — 44% of all voters.

Such losses bode ill for Democratic lawmakers ahead of the 2010 midterm elections. Democrats lead in the latest Gallup generic congressional vote by 46%-44%, among their narrowest edges in years. Several dozen Democrats were elected in districts carried by McCain last year.

Democrats hoped the call to pass Obama’s agenda would help them retain their majorities. But polls suggest they may face the typical voter backlash against the president’s party during an administration’s first off-year election.

Virginia Republican Bob McDonnell leads Democrat Creigh Deeds in every poll, sometimes by double digits. Deeds has blamed his struggles on negative feelings towards Democrats in Washington.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=508845

Obama Job Approval at 56% After Nobel Win
conducted Oct. 9-11, 2009, as part of Gallup Daily tracking
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123629/Obama-Job-Approval-56-After-Nobel-Win.aspx

fromtheslide - 14 October 2009 12:27 PM

Obama Job Approval at 56% After Nobel Win
conducted Oct. 9-11, 2009, as part of Gallup Daily tracking
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123629/Obama-Job-Approval-56-After-Nobel-Win.aspx

RealClear politics gives an average of all the major polls

President Obama Job Approval
Polling Data
Poll                         Date Sample     Approve Disapprove Spread
RCP Average 9/29 - 10/13—      53.0         40.0     +13.0
Marist                   10/7 - 10/12         53           41         + 12
Gallup                   10/11 - 10/13   52           39         +13 Your 56% didn’t last long
Rasmussen Reports     10/11 - 10/13 49           50         -1
CBS News 10/5 - 10/8 829 A 56 34 +22
Ipsos/McClatchy 10/1 - 10/5 1296 A 56 40 +16
Associated Press/GfK 10/1 - 10/5 1003 A 56 39 +17
Quinnipiac 9/29 - 10/5 2630 RV 50 41 +9
Pew Research 9/30 - 10/4 1500 A 52 36 +16

See All President Obama Job Approval Polling Data
RCP Poll Average
President Obama Job Approval
53.0 Approve 40.0 Disapprove

53% approval, that means he wins!

fromtheslide - 14 October 2009 05:15 PM

53% approval, that means he wins!

52% and dropping.  At the rate he has gone in three days, he will be in negative territory by Christmas.

American voters are waking up & seeing him for what he is.

Just what is he that we are going to wake up and see,2012? We already know he is a president who is doing his best to do good things for America and it’s people—We can only hope that some day you can wake up to the fact that a Black Man Earned this Job, Got the Votes, and can lead this Country—

Your Avatar alone exposes your Racism and your hope that his ratings drop each day—-AND YOU AND YOUR FELLOW RACIST HOPE HE FAILS, EVEN IF IT MEANS THE FAILURE OF THIS COUNTRY—

BarefootFreddie - 17 October 2009 04:34 AM

Just what is he that we are going to wake up and see,2012? We already know he is a president who is doing his best to do good things for America and it’s people—We can only hope that some day you can wake up to the fact that a Black Man Earned this Job, Got the Votes, and can lead this Country—

Your Avatar alone exposes your Racism and your hope that his ratings drop each day—-AND YOU AND YOUR FELLOW RACIST HOPE HE FAILS, EVEN IF IT MEANS THE FAILURE OF THIS COUNTRY—

He probably is trying to do good things as he sees them.

I do not see such liberal policies as being “good” for America.

My avatar is nothing racist.  It shows a smoker who raised the cigarette taxes on smokers wearing an ACORN cap, illustrating his ties to that fraudulent organization.

You don’t like me speaking out against the direction he is going so you try to equate that to racism.  That is an inaccurate leap.  Just because people object to his policies doesn’t make them a racist.

I don’t want the country to fail, I want Obama to fail at taking our country so far left that we end up saddled with long term damage.

I believe his hard left policies will lead to our countries failure, and I want to stop that from happening.

Obama could offer to give away a state & his supporters would defend the action and accuse anyone opposed to it as racist.

That charge is transparent.

Race has nothing to do with it, Freddie.  I can’t speak for 2012 but…

After McCarthy finished hunting down the communists and corruption in DC, those ideas went underground.  They surfaced in radical groups like Weather Underground (Bill Ayers), STORM (Anthony Van Jones) and The Center for American Progress (George Soros).  They surfaced in Hollywood and Ivy League schools.  Not only were both Obama’s parents communist sympathizers but a close family friend was Frank Marshall Davis (communist).  Obama attended Occidental before Harvard (Ivy League) where he has written of seeking out Marxist professors. 

One of Obama’s first meet & greets was hosted by Bill Ayers; Obama later appointed Van Jones.  Chicago is a haven of political corruption.  How many within Mayor Daley’s administration have been convicted of corruption?  Obama has a laundry list of people within the administration with views of much greater government control of our economy and societal values.  Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, Mark Lloyd, Carol Browner, Anita Dunn (it has just surface that she reveres Mao Tse Tung), and even Hillary Clinton (wrote thesis on Saul Alinsky).  Sonia Sotomayor’s yearbook quote was one from Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for US president.

There are millions of Americans who believe our country should move toward the light of government dominance; some hybrid form of -isms.  Bill Maher has recently said that Americans are stupid and need to be drug to healthcare reform then went on to praise the ‘efficiency’ of the dictatorship of China.  There is a real movement afoot.

On Oct. 31, 2008, Obama said “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” 

This has nothing to do with race but everything to do with the preservation of our country’s founding.  I’m not asking you to believe me and will not try to persuade you.  I’m tired, confused and sometimes scared.

ccone1 - 17 October 2009 11:30 AM

Race has nothing to do with it, Freddie.  I can’t speak for 2012 but…

After McCarthy finished hunting down the communists and corruption in DC, those ideas went underground.  They surfaced in radical groups like Weather Underground (Bill Ayers), STORM (Anthony Van Jones) and The Center for American Progress (George Soros).  They surfaced in Hollywood and Ivy League schools.  Not only were both Obama’s parents communist sympathizers but a close family friend was Frank Marshall Davis (communist).  Obama attended Occidental before Harvard (Ivy League) where he has written of seeking out Marxist professors. 

One of Obama’s first meet & greets was hosted by Bill Ayers; Obama later appointed Van Jones.  Chicago is a haven of political corruption.  How many within Mayor Daley’s administration have been convicted of corruption?  Obama has a laundry list of people within the administration with views of much greater government control of our economy and societal values.  Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, Mark Lloyd, Carol Browner, Anita Dunn (it has just surface that she reveres Mao Tse Tung), and even Hillary Clinton (wrote thesis on Saul Alinsky).  Sonia Sotomayor’s yearbook quote was one from Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for US president.

There are millions of Americans who believe our country should move toward the light of government dominance; some hybrid form of -isms.  Bill Maher has recently said that Americans are stupid and need to be drug to healthcare reform then went on to praise the ‘efficiency’ of the dictatorship of China.  There is a real movement afoot.

On Oct. 31, 2008, Obama said “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” 

This has nothing to do with race but everything to do with the preservation of our country’s founding.  I’m not asking you to believe me and will not try to persuade you.  I’m tired, confused and sometimes scared.

cc- some are so taken and blinded with the ‘cult of personality’ that they will never understand how anyone could possible disagree with such an agenda.

You left out Valerie Jarrett

Here is an op-ed written by Mikhail Gorbachev in Jun-09.  He offers a VERY interesting perspective on American perestroika.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060501966_pf.html

How many Avatars have you had of previous Presidents,2012? I guess I missed the one of our past presidnt with white powder in his nostrils and an oil rig on his head—Smoking is legal and does not equate to evil, though it is very uhealthy—-Most tobacco taxes are by the States—Aren’t those taxes good for Health-Care??

CC, Don’t worry, my friend—-As long as we are informed, NO ONE can lead us where we don’t want to go—Hold to your values and refuse to allow fear to control your ideas and wisdom—

BarefootFreddie - 17 October 2009 01:43 PM

How many Avatars have you had of previous Presidents,2012? I guess I missed the one of our past presidnt with white powder in his nostrils and an oil rig on his head—Smoking is legal and does not equate to evil, though it is very uhealthy—-Most tobacco taxes are by the States—Aren’t those taxes good for Health-Care??

CC, Don’t worry, my friend—-As long as we are informed, NO ONE can lead us where we don’t want to go—Hold to your values and refuse to allow fear to control your ideas and wisdom—

The majority of smokers are low income as far as a percentage of any income group.  Why would Obama hurt the ones that he claims to want to help?  About a dollar per pack in three months.

Not very kind to supporters.

I believe Bush had rejected white powder in his older years as has Obama.

Obama still smokes while lecturing about it.  Perhaps he should walk the walk.

Another quick dance around the Avatar question, right 2012??

As you would say, please give me a link or quote a source where you have proof Georgie gave up anything—-Now I remember, he gave up golf ‘til the troops came home—-Care to tell us how long that promise lasted?? As for smoking, I was quite sure you would point out that it is a poor man’s habit and beneath the Elitist Crowd you are a member of—So you admit with tobacco taxes these ‘lower class’ have been paying a largely disapportionate amount in taxes—

Now would you dispute that these new taxes have pushed more people into either cutting back or quitting altogether—-Thus cutting Health Care costs in the future?

As for the Oil-Rig Hat, has Georgie given up his price-gouging friends? Or Oil Futures fortune?

Be Creative—Give us an Avatar for each Democratic President you’ve bashed—Why Only One???

planks - 19 October 2009 12:13 PM

ccone1 - 17 October 2009 01:27 PM

Here is an op-ed written by Mikhail Gorbachev in Jun-09.  He offers a VERY interesting perspective on American perestroika.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060501966_pf.html

Are you now retailing socialist opinion CC?

Planks—CC would quote Satan if it would help to support his Right-Wing Bias—