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Middle Tuesday, June 15, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
President Barack Obama, flanked by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, left, National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, right, makes a statement on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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During the week of June 7-13, only 46 percent of Americans overall told Gallup they approved of the job Obama is doing as president, tying for the worst week of Obama's presidency. Two weeks ago, forty-six percent also said they approved of the job Obama is doing, and last week 47 percent said they approved.
But when the president’s approval is separated by incomes groups, it is only the lowest income bracket recorded by Gallup—those who earn less than $2,000 per month—that gives Obama a majority approval rating, with 52 percent saying they approved of the job he is doing as president.
Among those earning $2,000 to $4,999 per month (or $24,000 to $59,988 per year), 46 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. Among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month ($60,000 to $89,988 per year), 44 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. And among those earning $7,500 or more per month ($90,000 per year or more), the highest income bracket recorded by Gallup, 47 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing.
The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $24,000 to $59,988 income bracket was the week of May 10-16, when it was 51 percent. The last time it topped 50 percent among the $60,000 to $89,988 income bracket was the week of May 3-9, when it was 51 percent. The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $90,000 and above income bracket was the week of April 19-25, when it was 51 percent.
Obama’s current 52 percent approval among Americans earning less than $2,000 per month is the lowest it has been among that income bracket in his presidency. In the week of April 19-25, his approval was at 60 percent in this income bracket. It has dropped eight points since then.
The week of his inauguration—Jan. 19-25, 2009—Obama’s approval was 73 percent among those earning less than $2,000 per month, 66 percent among those earning between $2,000 and $4,999, 69 percent among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month, and 66 percent among those earning $7,500 per month or more.
During the week of June 7-13, only 46 percent of Americans overall told Gallup they approved of the job Obama is doing as president, tying for the worst week of Obama's presidency. Two weeks ago, forty-six percent also said they approved of the job Obama is doing, and last week 47 percent said they approved.
But when the president’s approval is separated by incomes groups, it is only the lowest income bracket recorded by Gallup—those who earn less than $2,000 per month—that gives Obama a majority approval rating, with 52 percent saying they approved of the job he is doing as president.
Among those earning $2,000 to $4,999 per month (or $24,000 to $59,988 per year), 46 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. Among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month ($60,000 to $89,988 per year), 44 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing. And among those earning $7,500 or more per month ($90,000 per year or more), the highest income bracket recorded by Gallup, 47 percent said they approved of the job Obama is doing.
The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $24,000 to $59,988 income bracket was the week of May 10-16, when it was 51 percent. The last time it topped 50 percent among the $60,000 to $89,988 income bracket was the week of May 3-9, when it was 51 percent. The last time Obama’s approval topped 50 percent among the $90,000 and above income bracket was the week of April 19-25, when it was 51 percent.
Obama’s current 52 percent approval among Americans earning less than $2,000 per month is the lowest it has been among that income bracket in his presidency. In the week of April 19-25, his approval was at 60 percent in this income bracket. It has dropped eight points since then.
The week of his inauguration—Jan. 19-25, 2009—Obama’s approval was 73 percent among those earning less than $2,000 per month, 66 percent among those earning between $2,000 and $4,999, 69 percent among those earning $5,000 to $7,499 per month, and 66 percent among those earning $7,500 per month or more.
i'm waiting to see the numbers for jumping off a cliff so i can isee if i should do that. If 50 percent or more are in favor of that then i guess i'll do it.
ReplyDeleteYou do a great job of repeating everyone elses work on this blog and this is another case in point. You titles need some work.
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ReplyDeleteJoe, I've seen your blog and it's a bunch of cut and paste. So why would you have a problem with me doing what you do? Is it part of the liberal double standard? You are such a typical anarchist dope. Go back to sniffing crack Joe.
ReplyDeleteWhether conservatives, independents, and liberals want to admit it or not, the platitudes Barack Obama pronounced Tuesday night are all he can say on the subject of the oil spill. That might make your head spin to consider, but it is the God’s honest truth. He is not physically or mentally able to go beyond those words.
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama, like Carter before him, has a world view that government can solve every problem. All problems are problems for government intervention.
But here is a problem the government cannot solve. It will not solve it. It has not solved it. It is not going to be solved by the government. This oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico is a problem that will be solved by a private company working in collaboration with other private companies.
The government has failed the basic task of securing the border from illegal immigrants. It is failing to secure the coastline from the oil slick. Government is failing. Barack Obama believes government cannot fail. Therefore, Barack Obama is left with nothing to say except “windmills.”
Government solves problems in Barack Obama’s world view. But again, here is a problem that by definition and by implementation the government is not going to solve, cure, or fix. Thus far, the government intervention has complicated the problem, delayed the fix, and exacerbated the ecological damage.
A normal person might choose this as an opportunity to reconsider their world view. If this were truly on the scale of 9/11, there’d be many new conservatives with eyes now open to the incompetence of government. But Barack Obama, like Carter before him, is too wedded to government.
Barack Obama posits himself as the solution to our ills. It is personal. He is the man who said that with his nomination for the Presidency, not even his election, but merely his nomination, “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
He set the bar that high himself. And that is the standard by which the public will now judge him. He, as the personal embodiment of government, has failed.
If Obama were capable of honestly assessing this situation, admitting government is not going to solve the problem, and leveling with the American people, he would forthrightly tell them that, according to his advisors, the remaining options to stop the leak do not have high chances of success, and that we need to brace for the fact that the leak will likely not stop until relief wells are completed. In August. However, this statement probably did not focus group well, and so instead we get, “Let’s build some windmills!”
Mr. President, windmills will not clean up this mess and windmills will not fuel my car and get me to work. It is that simple.
Chris, once again, i have op-eds i think are enlightening on there, mostly from conservative sources and i have taken parts of writers pieces and talked about my feeling on them. So your partially right.
ReplyDeleteThe reason i critiicse you for your extreme cut and paste is because thats all you do and you do it alot. you've done 3 cut and pastes in one day and not even included the credits. you've passed it off as your own.
And you don't backcheck your cut and paste. You've had a number of posts that were blantantly false and you got caught.
ohh and you need to back check the
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it appears to be a lie. There are foreign flagged vessels working in the gulf to clean up the spill
The whole progressive movement is about eradicating the middle class. Marxism does not work if you have a middle class.
ReplyDeleteNice try Joe but you are wrong again. Keep sniffing that crack Joe.
ReplyDeleteRegime Will Have Very Little Support Soon Other Than Far Left And That Aint Going To Put Regime Down For Second Term.
ReplyDeleteThe Man Seems Like A Great Campaigner But Leadership And Lack Of Experiance Is Showing. To Me He Just Seems Over His Head. He Had Better Learn To Swim Or Get Back To The Shallow End Of The Pool.